Medical-Dental Ad Hoc Committee Findings on Fluoridation
There is every indication that Medical and Dental opinion against Fluoridation is rapidly increasing. A meeting of the above committee was held in New York City, and the findings reported in the New York World Telegram and Sun, February 24, 1958. Extracts of the conclusions follow, and should be added to the opinions of medical men already quoted.
Dr. Jonathan Forman, head of the Medical-Dental Ad Hoc Committee on Evaluation of Fluoridation stated that the committee represents more than 1500 physicians, dentists and scientists all over the United States. Of these, he said, 200 are in New York City.
"Dr. Forman said he would not identify any lest they be subjected to ‘punitive action.'(1) He asserted many opponents of fluoridation have been threatened with censure.(1) Dr. Forman is reported to have further stated: "There is not sufficient, reliable scientific data available to justify positive action concerning artificial mass fluoridation of any public water supply."
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(1) We are living in America, the land of the free. Actually,
how free is a people who, after long experience in a chosen profession,
dare not express their opinions for fear of reprisals. Comparatively
few of the general public have the slightest idea that when one
steps out of line, he is confronted by the almost certainty that
there will be reprisals in one form or another, the worst of which
may be a charge of being mentally ill, and the danger of being
confined in an institution for the insane.
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"Dr. Fred B. Exner, Seattle physician, and Dr. A. Allen London, president of the Boonton, N.J., Board of Health and other members of the group at the conference, said much research is still needed before ‘recommendations of meaning' can be made on the subjects
"Fluoridation of public water supplies would be a step in the direction of socialized(2) medicine, they charged.
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(2) This procedure, if generally carried through, will not only
bring about socialized medicine and the lowering of medical standards
and ethics, but will also result in more and more mass medication
by those who do not posses the slightest knowledge of the grave
results of such imposition.
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"The doctors said fluoridation of drinking water might be beneficial to some but highly dangerous to others suffering kidney ailments or other diseased. Fluoridation, they said, should be considered only for individuals.(3)
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(3) If the individual is in actual need of such medication, then
it is the experienced physician who should prescribe it, and not
those activated by the "savior" delusion, or profit
motive.
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"Tests on animals at Cornel University, they said, showed instances of fluoridation causing inflammation of kidneys and teeth.
"Recalls Radium "Dr. London said that in the early 1930s radium had been hailed as non-toxic and later findings proved tragically wrong as person after person died of its effects. Fluorides are known to be toxic, he said, to some persons.
"Comptroller Lawrence E. Gerosa on the citizens Searchlight TV program yesterday said the question of fluoridation New York's water system should be decided by public referendum.(4)
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(4) The issue cannot be properly and correctly decided even by
a referendum. Why not? Because the majority would decide, and
the mass has not the slightest knowledge of the subject. One might
just as well authorize one of the mass to treat a patient suffering
with high temperature with Aconite - a no greater poison than
Sodium Fluoride - as to accept the opinion of the majority whether
or not fluoridation is the proper thing to do.
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"He said he did not know ‘too much' about fluoridation and he was convinced ‘eight men on the Board of Estimates can't decide the question of fluoridation for eight million people.'
Among the prominent members of the Ad-Hoc committee are said to be:
"Dr. Charles C. Heyde, former president of AMA; Dr. Alton Oschner of New Orleans, outstanding surgeon; Dr. C. C. Bass. dean emeritus of Tulane University; Dr. Clive M. McCay, professor of animal nutrition, Cornel University; Dr. M.S. Rhode, former chief of staff of Bellevue Hospital, New York city.
"Many of the symptoms of those suffering from multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, and other like diseases are similar to what physicians say occurred in fluorosis (which is fluorine poisoning) and since fluorine poisoning has crippled and killed hundreds of cattle and law suits(5) have been won on these grounds to the tune of thousands of dollars, I'd like to ask this question: Are fluorides in the water crippling and killing our children?
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(5) It is reported that a Federal Judge in Utah recently awarded
48 farmers a judgment for $35,838.00 against the United States
Steel Co., for damage done to livestock by fluorine. Further,
that 300 farmers living near Provo, Utah, revealed that the damage
had reached a total of nearly $25,000,000. And again, that the
Agricultural Department of the United States issued a bulletin
warning farmers not to permit their hogs to drink fluoridated
water on the ground that it would injure the unborn pigs.
Our correspondent questions: Are human beings of less importance
than pigs? If Fluorine will do this to unborn piglets, what will
it do to unborn children when the expectant mother is forced to
drink this Toxic rat poison every day of her pregnancy, considering
that women and unformed children are far more sensitive to every
toxic substance than pigs and the expected piglets?
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"Fluoridation of water, plus so many cases of crippling diseases, is alarming, to say the least. Is there a connection between the two?
"Quoting from George Waldbott, M.D., of Detroit, on The Bartlett Survey, Bartlett, Texas, being a town that has 8 p.p.m. natural fluorine in the Water: ‘In Bartlett population hearing defects occur in 19.4 percent (U.S. average 7 per cent) arthritis 13.8 per cent, cataracts 10.1 (U.S. averages less than 1 per cent) and increased bone density 10.1 per cent' The latter symptom represents advanced stage of fluorosis poisoning.
"A statement on fluoridation sponsored by the Medical-Dental Ad-Hoc Committee gave nine reasons why they oppose fluoridation. The first is ‘positive proof of the safety of fluoridation is required, none has been offered.' Findings of the Ad-Hoc committee are endorsed by more than one thousand medical doctors and dentists."
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