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THERESA
MARIE GANDHI
Supporting
Sustainable Life
BAD
SCIENCE IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY
Fluoride
and Plutonium – Lies, Liability and Bad Science!
Abstract
from Nexus
magazine found via Waste Not
Newsletter online.
Produced and broadcast on Kitsap
Views January 30, 1999 with host Theresa Marie.
Freedom
of Information documents now show that the first fluoride in a public
water system was set up by members of the Manhattan project to provide
“evidence useful in litigation” against defense contractors for
fluoride injury to citizens. The
first lawsuits against the American A-bomb program were not over
radiation, but over fluoride damage. Under the cloak of National Security
bomb program researchers played a leading role in the design and
implementation of the most extensive US study of the health effects of
fluoridating public drinking water, conducted in Newburgh, New York from
1945 –1955. With the cooperation of New York State Health Department
personnel, blood and tissue samples from Newburgh citizens were sent to
the University of Rochester – site of one of the most notorious human
radiation experiments of
The
Cold War.
Fluoride is a key chemical in the production of nuclear weapons.
Declassified documents show that the original ‘proof that low-dose
fluoride is safe for children’s bones’ came from US bomb program
scientists. Researches who have reviewed these declassified documents
fear that Cold War national security
considerations may have prevented objective scientific evaluation of vital
public health questions concerning fluoride.
“Information was buried,” concludes Dr. Phyllis Mullenix,
former head of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston and now a
critic of fluoridation. Animal studies which Mullenix and co-workers
conducted at Forsyth in the early 1990s indicated that fluoride was a
powerful central nervous system (CNS) toxin and might adversely affect
human brain functioning even at low doses. During her investigation,
Mullenix was astonished to discover there had been virtually no
previous US studies of fluoride’s effects on the human brain.
Again, much of the proof of fluoride’s alleged safety in low
doses rest on the postwar work done at the University of Rochester in
anticipation of lawsuits against the bomb program for human injury. The
prestigious upstate New York College in
particular had housed a key wartime division of the Manhattan Project to
study the health effects of the new “special materials” such as
uranium, plutonium, beryllium and fluoride which were being used in making
the atomic bomb. Dr. Harold C. Hodge, chief of fluoride toxicity studies
for the Manhattan project became the leading national proponent of
fluoridating public drinking water.
The
University of Rochester’s fluoride research would not be considered
scientifically acceptable today because of their inherent bias to prove
the chemical safe. The final report of the Newburgh Demonstration
Project, published in 1956 in the Journal of the American Dental
Association, concluded that “small concentrations” of fluoride were
safe for US citizens. The biological proofs, “based on work
performed…at the University of Rochester Atomic Energy Project”, and
was delivered by Dr. Hodge.
SUPPRESSION OF ADVERSE HEALTH
FINDINGS
Were
adverse health findings from Newburgh and other bomb-program fluoride
studies suppressed? All AEC-funded studies had to be declassified before
publication in civilian medical and dental journals. Where are the
original classified versions?
The transcript of one of the major secret scientific conferences of
World War II – on “fluoride metabolism” – is missing from the
files of the US National Archives and is “probably still classified”,
according to the librarian. Participants in the January 1944 conference
included key figures who promoted the safety of
fluoride and water fluoridation to the public after the war: Harold Hodge
of the Manhattan Project, David B. Ast of the Newburgh Demonstration
Project, and US Public Health Service dentist H. Trendley Dean, popularly
know as “the father of fluoridation”.
A
WWII Manhattan Project classified report (25 July 1944) on water
fluoridation is missing from the files of the University of Rochester
Atomic Energy Project, the US National Archives, and the Nuclear
Repository at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The next four
numerically consecutive documents are also missing, while the remainder of
the “M-1500 series” is present.
“Either
those documents are still classified, or they’ve been ‘disappeared’
by the government,” said Clifford Honicker, Executive Director of the
American Environmental Health Studies Project in Knoxville, Tennessee,
which provided key evidence in the public exposure and prosecution of US
human radiation experiments.
Seven pages have been cut
out of a 1947 Rochester bomb project notebook entitled “DuPont
Litigation”, “Most unusual,” commented the medical school’s chief
archivist, Chris Hoolihan.”
This
is more than a smoking gun. It is the very foundation upon which all
further scientific “proof” was based. To protect from liability the
producers of toxic chemicals the studies were rigged in the Name of
National Security. At the time this was just like a decree from God and
covered all sins. All further studies need to be questioned. And the
brainwashing of the entire dental community needs to be cleaned up.
This
raises major questions on the validity of any so called “scientific
proof” that fluoride is safe in any amount. To ignore this information
and fail to investigate is to side with evil.
Theresa Marie
Theresa
Marie, Producer and Host
Kitsap Views – 6 – 7
PM Monday and Wednesday
Broadcast on KITZ AM 1400 November
1999
P.O. Box 437, Clinton, WA 98236 USA
Information
quoted with permission from:
Waste Not newsletter,
82
Judson Street, Canton, NY 13617
A Conservative Activist working for a quality environment for Our Seventh Generation,
Theresa Marie Kothari Gandhi, Activist Poet and Ecological Wisdom
Advocate, Whidbey Island, WA. |
