FLUORIDATION

New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 5

FLUORIDATION

. Sik,=T have just received a document from America on this subject written by F. Battelle, entitled "Fluoridation Unmasked," and here are a few extracts from this revealing pamphlet:-"Fluori-dation has been used in countries taken over by dictators to immobilise the people’s will and ability to think. It has been used for this purpose in Russia. It is also used by trainers of wild animals to induce docility in their jungle beasts and cause them to be more manageable. Rena M. Vale, former Communist Party member, who has been an active antiCommunist for over 20 years, has stated that ‘fluoridation’ of drinking water is known in communist circles as a vehicle of Red warfare, to be used for outright poisoning of the population and/or reducing the mentality and will of the population so it will not resist communist domination. The method to be employed to put fluoridation over on the people is to beat the drums for the fraudulent reason of ‘protection of children’s teeth,’ and to see to it that the public does not learn that fluorides affect the brain and nerve cells to such an extent that initiative is reduced and the personality becomes docile and cow-like." Dr. Charles A. Brusch, Director of the Brusch Medical Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, states: "Extensive pharmaco‘dynamic research from reliable sources leaves us speechless when we think of a plan to fluoridate the water of the entire nation. Acute or chronic, as the effects are sure to be, it can only be classified as mass murder. Fluorides are protoplasmjc poisons. They have never been approved medically, only venturesome doctors using them. The following are some of the harmful toxic effects of fluoride: 1. Damage to the brain. and nerve cells. 2. Harm to the reproductive organs, with the resultant lowering of the birth rate. 3. Affect the thyroid gland and damage the liver. 4. Create a higher incidence of bone fractures." Dr. Leo Spira, M.D., Ph.D., etc., noted authority on fluorine poisoning, states: "As a medical man, J have no hesitation in stating that the principle of adding a potent poison, such as fluorine is, to the public water supplies runs counter to every clinical, physiological, and pharmacological doctrine, and should be categorically rejected by all means at the disposal of

civilised man."

A.

W.

(Christchurch).

(We did not believe it possible for Communism to be brought into this discussion. Before the subject is taken any further into fantasy, it might be as well to recapitulate the scientific findings quoted by two genuine authorities at a public meeting in Hastings on May 18, as reported in the Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune. The experts were Dr. Gilbert J. Parfitt, head of the Preventive Dentistry Department of the Institute of Dental Surgery, London, and Dr. F. A. Arnold, Director of the National Dental Research Health Service, Washington. Some of the points they made were as follows: (1) Fluoridation of water had been clearly established as offering at least a reduction of 65 per cent in dental decay. (2) Where the fluoride content was below 114 parts in a million no mottling or staining of teeth occurred, (3) Mottled teeth and dental decay were entirely different things. (4) Fluoride content in the water on the level required for treatment of dental decay had no effect on physique, heart, bones or liver, (5) Water so treated had no taste of fluoride and there was no smell. (6) Fluorides had been known to research workers for more than 100 years. (7) Mothers benefited clinically from fluoridation. (8) Though the greatest benefit was upon children up to seven or eight years of age, older children also derived a substantial benefit. (9) Fluoridation of water was the most effective method so far devised for the human absorption of fluoride. -Ed.)