Chemist / Author speaks at Colgate on risks of fluoride in water
Chemist / Author speaks at Colgate on risks of fluoride in water
By By RACHEL MURPHY
HAMILTON, N.Y. (WKTV) - A Doctor and chemist discussed the science behind fluoride in water at the Colgate Bookstore at Colgate University Wednesday afternoon.
Dr. Paul Connett, co-author of the book, "The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There," says that excessive amounts of fluoride can be dangerous to your health.
"Fluoridation is not a good medical practice," Dr. Connett said. "Once you put medicine in the water, you can't control the dose. You can't control who gets it."
According to Dr. Connett, fluoride is harmful to the brain, bones, and endocrine system. In addition, he says that people need to be notified on just how much fluoride is in their water.
"You expose people without their consent, you're violating their informed consent," he said. "There is no individual supervision and there is no federal agency tracking health effects."
However, according to the American Dental Hygienists' Association site, "Good scientific evidence supports the use of community water fluoridation and the use of fluoride dental products for preventing tooth decay for both children and adults."
By By RACHEL MURPHY
HAMILTON, N.Y. (WKTV) - A Doctor and chemist discussed the science behind fluoride in water at the Colgate Bookstore at Colgate University Wednesday afternoon.
Dr. Paul Connett, co-author of the book, "The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There," says that excessive amounts of fluoride can be dangerous to your health.
"Fluoridation is not a good medical practice," Dr. Connett said. "Once you put medicine in the water, you can't control the dose. You can't control who gets it."
According to Dr. Connett, fluoride is harmful to the brain, bones, and endocrine system. In addition, he says that people need to be notified on just how much fluoride is in their water.
"You expose people without their consent, you're violating their informed consent," he said. "There is no individual supervision and there is no federal agency tracking health effects."
However, according to the American Dental Hygienists' Association site, "Good scientific evidence supports the use of community water fluoridation and the use of fluoride dental products for preventing tooth decay for both children and adults."
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I have read may articles on this subject and I would now like to inform your readers about the present stage of development of water fluoridation mainly in Europe since the resolution of the WHO in 1969:
1. The World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted Resolutions in 1969 (WHA22.30), in 1975 (WHA28.64), and in 1978 (WHA31.50) which recommended that Member States introduce community water fluoridation as a safe, inexpensive and effective measure, and urged Member States to consider fluoridation of public water supplies as part of their national plans for the prevention and control of oral disease; and it suggested that, where community water fluoridation is not feasible, alternative methods of achieving optimum daily intake or application of fluorides should be envisaged.
These Resolutions are promoted by the International Dental Federation (FDI),1 which prepared the Report by the Director General of the WHO, and backed up by Public Health Officials with their National Dental Organizations.2,3 The FDI first recommended water fluoridation in 1951.4
2. Scientific analyses of water fluoridation studies and experiments show that none of them can actually prove any caries prophylactic effect of fluoride.5-47 The "caries reductions" reported by dentists were undoubtedly constructed by dentists (e.g. in the 21-cities-study by H T Dean et al (1942) or in the Grand Rapids/ Muskegon Study by F A Arnold Jr and J W Knutson et al (1950-1962)) or are the result of influences other than those of fluorides. The dentist J W Knutson, Assistant Surgeon General, Chief Dental Officer, US Public Health Service, was engaged as an expert of the WHO in the expert committee 195748 and an Adviser Member of the Health Assembly in 1969.3 In my opinion the dentists in the WHO who recommended water fluoridation as safe, inexpensive, and effective, are not competent in this field of science because the problems are statistical and epidemiological and not problems of dentistry. The dentists in the WHO defend dogmatism instead of relying on facts. It is impossible to prevent and control oral disease by water fluoridation.
3. Whereas the WHO and WHA recommended the introduction of community water fluoridation in 1969, 1975, 1978, water fluoridation was stopped in some of the European Member States of the WHO.49 The reason for these cessations of water fluoridation was not a political one, but the consequence of scientific discussion of its effectiveness and side effects. Water fluoridation was stopped in the following States: Federal Republic of Germany50 (introduced 1952, stopped 1971); Sweden (introduced 1952, stopped 1971); Netherlands51-53 (introduced 1953, stopped 1976); Czechoslovakia49 (introduced 1958, stopped 1988/90); German Democratic Republic49 (introduced 1959, stopped 1990 (Spremberg 1993)); Union of Soviet Socialist Republics49 (introduced 1960, stopped 1990); Finland49 (introduced 1959, stopped 1993); outside Europe: Japan49 (introduced 1952, stopped 1972).
In Europe more than 53 million people who had water fluoridation for many years are now free from it.
4. Dentists and WHO experts have predicted a very large caries increase ("a tide of caries") after termination of fluoridation.49 Analyses of the data, however, reveal a significant decrease in dental caries (caries decline) after suspension of water fluoridation in Japan,49,54 in the Netherlands,55 in Prague,49,56 in the German Democratic Republic,49 and elsewhere. Never has any real increase in dental caries been observed after water fluoridation was discontinued.
Furthermore, many fluoride tablet measures were stopped also. In Graz23 (Austria), for instance, the dental caries of children had increased during the fluoride tablet actions in schools since 1956 and decreased after the stop in 1973.
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