UK - Fluoride: it's a big scam!

Fluoride: it's a big scam!
Date: 26 August 2009
Duck Hill
Pecket Well
Hebden Bridge
I REFER to the Courier Tuesday, August 18, "Councillors urged to say no to fluoride."
It is correct that Calderdale Council has previously overwhelmingly expressed opposition to fluoridation on ethical and medical grounds but in 2007, Coun Bob Metcalfe told the Courier that fluoridation had the ability to prevent tooth decay and also had other benefits.
He omitted to state what the other "benefits" are and who derives them.
The only benefit I am aware of is to the phosphate fertiliser industry as, wherever fluoridation is practised, it converts the expensive problem of disposal of tank-washings into a lucrative sideline.

When disposing of it into drinking water supplies on the fallacious pretext that it is essential to the dental health of consumers, particularly infants and children, it would be more appropriate to refer to fluoridation as the most harmful medical scam ever perpetrated on a population.

When I use the term harmful, I am including Down's Syndrome. Premature underweight and still- born births, hypothyroidism, skeletal and muscular conditions which are usually referred to as osteoarthritis, osteoporosis kyphosis and scoliosis, which could also be referred to as "skeletal fluorosis", sudden deaths of infants, children and even young apparently healthy adults.

It also includes cancers of various organs, brain tumours in infants and Alzheimer's disease, particularly when associated with fluoride exposures.

Fluoride has the capacity to facilitate the uptake of toxic metals such as aluminium, cadmium and manganese.

The incidence of Alzheimer's disease in Calderdale is horrendous according to statistics published in the Courier earlier this year.

Dennis Edmondson