Validated Independent News
Jul 18, 2012
Corporate media obscure an ongoing battle over water fluoridation in the U.S. While a recent
New York Times
editorial cites the Center for Disease Control’s claim that
fluoridation is one of the top accomplishments in public health over the
past century, [1] James Tracy reports that fluoridating the nation’s
water supply appears to have been a carefully coordinated plan designed
to shield major aluminum and steel producers from liabilities for the
substantial fluorine pollution their plants generated. Thus American
industrial interests, supported by public relations firms, have been the
chief forces behind water fluoridation.
Sodium fluoride is a dangerous poison and has been a primary active
ingredient in a wide variety of insecticides and fungicides.[2] Today
silicofluorides, a by-product of the phosphate fertilizer industry, is
the primary stand-in for sodium fluoride, given its relative
low-cost.[3] In 2001 researchers found that silicofluorides may cause
both a higher absorption of lead in children and decreases in
cholinesterase, an enzyme necessary for the regulation of
neurotransmitters. To date, neither the Environmental Protection Agency,
the Food and Drug Administration nor any other regulatory agency has
researched the long-term effects of consuming fluorisilic acid.
Tracy describes the fluoridation campaign as “a textbook case of
social engineering,” and shows how it demonstrates the “tremendous
capacity of powerful interests to reshape the social environment,
thereby prompting individuals to unwarily think and act in ways that are
often harmful to themselves and their loved ones.”
Source: James F. Tracy, “Poison is Treatment: The Campaign to Fluoridate America,”
Global Research, June 23, 2012,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31568
Notes:
[1]
New York Times, “Fluoridation Debate Redux,” 18 March, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/fluoridation-debate-redux.html?_r=1.
See also Jane E. Brody, “Dental Exam Went Well? Thank Fluoride,”
New York Times, January 23, 2012, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/dental-exam-went-well-thank-fluoride/
[2] Scorecard: The Pollution Information Website, Chemical Profiles:
Sodium Fluoride, n.d., GoodGuide,
http://scorecard.goodguide.com/chemical-profiles/pesticides.tcl?edf_substance_id=7681-49-4
[3] Washington’s Blog, “Untested Type of Fluoride Used in the
Overwhelming Majority of U.S. Water Supplies,” Centre for Research on
Globalization, January 10, 2011,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22707
Student Researcher: Anthony Meyers (Santa Rosa Junior College)
Faculty Evaluator: SusanRahman (Santa Rosa Junior College)
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