By: Matthew Fantazzi
What has been a topic of controversy in health care circles is the potential harm caused by fluoride in drinking water and dental products like toothpaste, as well as just how good it is for dental health. While litigation of this matter has not seen much to settle this dispute, a case being taken up in a San Francisco court is aiming to prove that fluoride should be classified as a neurotoxin. There is not a peep of this case in any corporate media and barely any in the alternative and independent circles either, Derek Broze has been at the trial since it began to see significant traction interviewing the attorney's bringing the case and the key witnesses arguing that fluoride is a toxin. I'm going to do my best to give a brief history of how water fluoridation came to be and the highlights of the case so far, there has been no ruling as of yet but they evidence has been in favor of ruling that fluoride is indeed toxic, even by the admission of those arguing on its behalf. Derek deserves tremendous credit for covering this important story that effects every person in the country and the developed world that has fluoridated its water supply.
Why did we start to fluoridate our water in the first place? An unfortunate refrain in this blog is that foundational ideas in the way we look at health care in America are based on benefiting special interests rather than human health, and the use of fluoride is just another case to add to the heap. Attorney Michael Connett says in the first interview linked, that it was a perfect storm of special interests that lead to the use of fluoride in the water. Around mid 1940's, powerful American Oligarchs in the Carnagie and Mellon dynasties, had a large excess of fluoride from the production of steel and aluminum, so they were looking for a use for the toxic biproduct. The sugar industry had to address the tooth decay epidemic that the industry has contributed to in America, so they were desperate for a solution. Dentists also needed a solution to this problem as there were talks of socializing dental care. On the heels of WWII, the government had needed to keep steel and aluminum production high, they also found that fluoride was a key part of enriching uranium for the Manhattan Project. In 1939 a study by a man called Gerald Cox made a proposal to fluoridate water because a study of his found it may prevent tooth decay. That study was commissioned by the aluminum and sugar industries, and Cox was employed by the Mellon institute. The Melon and Carnagie trusts are still involved in many aspects of health care and have the Carnagie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. This was the basis for these various groups to push for water fluoridation, recently there have been several major studies that have examined the potential harms of fluoride that have started to turn the tide against the established science as after being reexamined it seems to be very flimsy.
The case is the first of its kind regarding the classification of toxic substances to reach a federal court, it was put on hold until the National Toxicology Program's systematic review of fluoride toxicity was complete. This led to a wait that had been going on for years, after learning that there were efforts to suppress the report and even possible never releasing the results, Michael Connett was able to obtain a draft of the results that was written up in 2022. Those efforts were on behalf of government officials at the HHS, NIH and other federal and state agencies according to emails from officials in these departments forcing decisions to not publish the report because it "may interfere with a government policy". Since the focus of this case was on whether or not fluoride is a toxin or not, Connett decided just to focus on the content of the NTP report and leave all the examples of government corruption for another day.
What was in this report that was so damning? The NTP report showed through meticulous studies that they could conclusively say that level of water fluoridation did have a direct effect on IQ, and that ingesting 0.7g of fluoride per Liter of water resulted in a reduction of 1.82 IQ points. This is just in terms of IQ, there have been recent studies that have shown a possible connection between fluoride and hypothyroidism, a condition that is rampant today especially among women in their late 20's and early 30's.
Unfortunately, even if the case is successful in getting fluoride classified as a neurotoxin, it is unlikely to receive much if any media coverage, and the government response to address the use of the toxin will take time.
While this is a very important case in changing the policy, that may take years, but you can change your mind today and take steps to eliminate fluoride from your water and oral hygiene products. There are filters that can handle that at www.ewg.org and for more information on resources and actions you can take to get fluoride out of your cities water from the Fluoride Action Network at www.fluoridealert.org keep up with the case and all of Derek's great work at www.theconsciousresistance.com.
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Derek Broze of The Conscious Resistance interviews key players in San Francisco fluoride case.
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