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The Fluoride Deception Paperback – March 7, 2006
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- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSeven Stories Press
- Publication dateMarch 7, 2006
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.12 x 8.2 inches
- ISBN-101583227008
- ISBN-13978-1583227008
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"[Bryson's] research and consummate writing skill bring to light the shocking story of more than six decades of fluoride cover-up and deception. ... [He] presents its case in such a brilliant way and with such literary skill that it stands a good chance of becoming a cause célèbre for the general public to protest and demand action." —Washington Free Press
"This shocking anthology of incriminating stories and scientific discoveries is a must read for every consumer who owns a toothbrush." —E Magazine
"It is my sincere hope that Christopher Bryson's apparently thorough and comprehensive perusal of the scientific literature on the biological actions of fluoride and the ensuing debates through the years will receive the attention it deserves and that its implications will be seriously considered." —Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine
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It was shocking to read "Chapter 8 - Robert Kehoe and the Kettering Laboratory" in The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson. My father, LT. J. Russell Davey, Jr., MC, USNR, who died in 1948 (unknown to the author), is described on page 108 as "the offending radiologist" who inadvertently exposed Dr. Robert A. Kehoe's study regarding industrial fluoride exposure of workers at the Pennsylvania Salt Company in Easton, PA. Dr. Davey made a January 31, 1947 medical X-ray diagnosis of "fluoride poisoning" which became known to management and workers several miles away at the Pennsalt plant in Easton.
Bryson describes top officials at Pennsalt headquarters in Philadelphia as being "furious" with Drs. George Pillmore and Davey. The two Navy radiologists were not aware of Dr. Kehoe's Kettering Laboratory mission, to secretly collect medical data regarding poisoned American workers in order to protect the US government's bomb-related defense industry from potential lawsuits. The author brilliantly lays out Pennsalt's role in producing hydrofluoric acid (HF) for atomic bomb production and the resulting cover-up of workers suffering from fluoride poisoning.
Fluoride poisoning resulting in "crippling skeletal fluorosis" had been recognized in Europe since the late 1800s. In 1937, Danish scientist Kai Eli Roholm, MD, published "Fluorine Intoxication, an encyclopedic study of fluoride pollution and poisoning." Dr. Roholm reported that fluoride exposure produced a host of medical symptoms in factory workers. Most distinctly, fluoride could visibly disfigure a worker's bones, disabling them with a painful thickening and fusing of spinal vertebrae, a condition he called "crippling skeletal fluorosis."
In 1944, 26-year-old Lieutenant Davey, 6th Naval Beach Battalion, returned from the Normandy invasion and became a student and protégé of Captain George U. Pillmore, MC (S), USNR, Chief Radiologist at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. During that period, the Philadelphia Navy Yard housed a super-secret facility using hot liquid fluoride and pressurized steam to enrich uranium for the atomic bomb. Although bomb making was an Army project, the purpose of the Philadelphia plant was to supply insurance against failure of the Army's "separation program" and provide the Naval Research Laboratory with materials for the study of atomic energy.
Bryson describes a serious accident at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in September 1944. There was a release of man-made radiation and perhaps the worst fluoride accident of WWII. "A giant white plume of uranium hexafluoride gas drifted over the dockyard." Twenty-six men were exposed, killing two and seriously injuring the remainder. The Philadelphia coroner was not told the "cause of death." Body organs of dead men were considered "classified" and stuffed into a briefcase becoming the property of the Manhattan Project Medical Department. Years later, a Navy doctor explained to injured nuclear scientist Arnold Kramish that when fluoride gets into your bones, it "stalks you the rest of your life."
The following year after the accident, Dr. Davey was ordered to a Naval Special Hospital, Camp Wallace, Texas to serve as Chief of the X-ray Department in a 1,000-bed-hospital. After retuning to Philadelphia in May 1946 and relieved from active duty, Drs. Davey and Pillmore teamed up in a radiology practice 65 miles north of Philadelphia in Easton, PA. Dr. Pillmore established a Naval reserve unit that included Dr. Davey and about 30 medical doctors in the Easton area.
Bomb making was under the purview of the US Army during WWII. The Army maintained that "fluoride poisoning does not occur in the United States." However, the Navy Medical Department Cold War position on "fluoride poisoning" contradicted the Army Manhattan Project Medical Department. In 1946, Captain George U. Pillmore published Clinical Radiology: A Correlation of Clinical and Roentgenological Findings, Volume I & II, with 1,558 pages. LT. Davey was a contributing author. Navy Surgeon General Ross T. McIntire, Vice Admiral, MC, wrote in the Forward that X-ray examinations are "often the magic key in diagnosis."
Clinical Radiology states, "The source of fluorine intoxication include: (1) drinking water containing one part per million or more of fluorine, (2) fluorine compounds used as insecticidal sprays for fruits and vegetables (cryolite and barium fluosilicate), (3) the mining and conversion of phosphate rock to superphosphate which is used as fertilizer. (The fluorine content of phosphate rock is about 4 percent. During conversion to superphosphate, about 25 per cent of the fluorine present is volatilized.) (4) The fluorides used in the smelting of many metals, such as steel and aluminum, and in the production of glass, enamel, and brick....In 1932, Moller and Gudjonsson described a peculiar form of bone sclerosis in workers exposed to cryolite dust for a number of years. Since that time there have been many published reports of chronic fluorine intoxication and its effect on the osseous system."
Guided by a group of corporate attorneys known as the Fluorine Lawyers Committee, Dr. Kehoe's Kettering Laboratory conducted secret research in order to defend fluoride on behalf of a group of corporations that included Pennsalt, DuPont, Alcoa, and US Steel, all of which faced lawsuits for industrial fluoride pollution. Kehoe's aim was to block scientists from serving as effective witnesses in court cases. Manhattan Project Chief Leslie R. Groves wrote a February 28, 1946 memo to the Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy, advising that "the Department of Justice is cooperating in the defense of these suits."
Unfortunately for the plaintiffs, Dr. Kai Eli Roholm, the world's leading fluoride expert who visited this country just after WWII, died March 29, 1948. The brilliant Danish scientist was regarded highly by the medical profession but now would be unavailable to provide testimony in the fluoride lawsuits. Dr. Roholm's death was "a tragedy for all who rely on scientist to tell them the truth about chemicals they handle in the workplace and the risk from industrial pollution." The 46-year-old physician left a wife and two young children.
Dr. J. Russell Davey, Jr., the young Navy radiologist who exposed Dr. Robert Kehoe's scientific cover-up of fluoride poisoning, died suddenly June 5, 1948 of undetermined causes. The 30-year-old physician left a pregnant wife and three young children.
In 1949, US worker fluoride lawsuits resulted in no compensation. Former Manhattan Project toxicologist Harold C. Hodge, coordinator of the secret human radiation experiments at the University of Rochester and the nation's leading fluoride expert, wrote in 1965 that "crippling fluorosis has never been seen in the United States."
Sounds like the warning on rat poison, not a fluoride toothpaste, something we put in our mouth every day, and something every child under the age of 6 is likely to swallow because they make it taste so good. So why do dentists recommend it, and why do we put it in our drinking water? The idea that it's good for us, therefore we should drink it is silly. Using that logic, we should put vitamins, and maybe some anti-depressants in our water so we can have healthier, calmer populations.
So how did a substance that's 'the lifeblood of modern industry, pumped hotly each day through unnumeral factories, refineries, and mills. Fluoride is used to produce high octaine gasoline; to smelt such key metals as aluminum, steel, and beryllium; to make computer circuit boards, pesticides(really??)ski wax, refrigerant gases(aren't these bad for the ozone?) Teflon products, carpets, waterproof clothing, etched glass, bricks and ceramics, and numerous drugs, such as Prozac and Cipro." Intro. pg XV So, if you're using Teflon or taking anti-depressants, you're getting some extra fluoride.
So fluoride goes from being a pollutant which makes the bones of cows eating grass soaked in it, so brittle that they can't stand up, to being good for us. What???
The author, Christopher Bryson leads us easily through the maze of mass-deception of a product that was sold to us by fluoride researcher Dr. Hodge, the man who trained a generation of dentist school deans in the 50's and 60's. The same guy who "injected hospital patients with plutonium and radiation to study the toxicity of those chemicals on humans." Intro XXVii
So where does fluoride come from? Sure it happens in the ground naturally, but what they put in our water is the byproduct of the nuclear bomb makings. "While citizens of Newburgh were told that fluoride would reduce cavities in their children, secretly blood and tissue samples from residents were sent to his(Dr. Hodge) atomic laboratory to study." intro XVii
So the fluoride that's scrubbed from smokestacks as industrial waste, is sold to city water divisions where it's put into our water, because it prevents cavities. And pardon my cynicism, but since when did the government care about our health in a real and meaningful way?
Bryson names all of those involved in the fluoride deception in the beginning of the book, and over 100 pages of notes at the end of the book. He starts the story off with Phyllis Mullenix, a toxicologist hired by the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston. Mullenix does her research so well, that in the end she's fired for finding out that fluoride is toxic to rats, and therefore humans.
If you've ever wondered about whether fluoride is good for you, this book details everything you ever wanted to know about the substance. I've learned that you can't just filter it out of your water, you have to use a Reverse Osmosis filter. I've learned that our local water spends $1,000,000.00 a year to put fluoride in our water, and that they use haz-matt suits to do so. I've learned that the man who oversees this uses a Reverse Osmosis filter on his water at home. I've learned that many of our antibiotics have fluoride in them, having once been had my liver swell up from using them.
I've also learned that many cities have voted to eliminate fluoride in their local water, but the city councils have overruled them and continue to fluoride our water. I vote that we just say no to drugs in our water. If someone wants to put it on their toothpaste, that's their decision.
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