Signers include a Nobel Prize winner,
three members of the prestigious 2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel
that reported on fluoride’s toxicology, two officers in the Union
representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the President of the
International Society of Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of
medical, dental, academic, scientific and environmental professionals,
worldwide.
The Fluoride Deception (Interview With Christopher Bryson)
Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine states:
“It is my sincere hope that Christopher Bryson’s apparently thorough and comprehensive perusal of the scientfic 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.”
In the spirit of Rachel Carson, Chris Bryson defines the relationship between an industrial pollutant that is added to our drinking water and a host of health issues and environmental concerns and dispels the controversy that has dogged the fluoride issue for decades.
"The Subcommittees hearing today can
only begin to get at the issues surrounding the policy of water fluoridation
in the United States, a massive experiment that has been run on the
American public, without informed consent, for over fifty years. The
last Congressional hearings on this subject were held in 1977. Much
knowledge has been gained in the intervening years. It is high time for a
national review of this policy by a Joint Select Committee of Congress. New
hearings should explore, at minimum, these
points:
"6. During that investigation, I have
discovered that the government, in its assessment of the risks of fluoride
exposure, violated accepted standards of professional
conduct."
"There is clear evidence that small
amounts of fluoride, at or near levels added to U.S. water supplies, present
potential risks to the thyroid gland,
according to the National Research Council’s (NRC) first-ever published
review of the fluoride/thyroid literature."
"Chemicals,
contaminants, pollution, price: new reasons to rethink what you drink and
beware of bottled water."
"But more and more, people are questioning
whether the water, and the package it comes in, is safe, or at least safer
than tap water—and if the convenience is worth the environmental
impact."
"But recent studies show that small
amounts of medication can affect human embryonic kidney cells, human blood
cells and human breast cancer cells."
"Low concentrations of a range of
drugs, including antibiotics, birth
control and anti-convulsants, are
present in the drinking water
supplies of 24 major
cities."
"The water that tested positive for
traces of drugs serves at least 41 million people, according to an
Associated Press investigation."
"Getting rid of the drugs is also
difficult for the consumer, as most at-home water filters do not remove
pharmaceuticals."
We don't have anything to worry about
because:
"Based on what we now know, I
would say we find there's little or no risk from pharmaceuticals in the
environment to human health," microbiologist Thomas White, a consultant for
the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, told the
AP."
The most important part of what
the consultant for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America, told the AP was:
"Based on what we now know
..."
From that statement who should you believe?
Or should we believe:
"These are lab studies where cells, human
cells are subjected to very slight amounts of pharmaceuticals, the
kind that are found in water," the AP's Donn told the
NewsHour.
"These experiments show that even these
slight amounts appear to be capable of impairing the functioning of human
cells."
One of the problems specific to this kind of
pollutant is that they are made to interact with the human
body.
"These are chemicals that are designed to have very
specific effects at very low concentrations," zoologist John Sumpter
from Brunel University in London, who has studied trace hormones, heart
medicine and other drugs, told the AP. "So when they get out to the
environment, it should not be a shock to people that they have effects."
Some of the most disconcerting information has
come from the animal kingdom. Male fish in several parts of the country
have developed female sexual traits, potentially from estrogen in birth
control pills.
The sex ratios in some aquatic populations
have shifted dramatically, and sexually abnormal bass that produce cells for
both sperm and eggs have also been found."
Isn't it time that we united and demanded that
we have clean drinking water?
Most water filters do
not take out 100% of the fluoride that your water department adds
for no good reason or the pharmaceuticals
either!
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
"When the People unite and demand it then
it will happen!" - Steven Pattison