USA - Letter: The case of fluoridation and 'toxic sludge'

To the editor:
I am writing in response to the letter from Dr. Richard Brown regarding fluoridation (Letters, the Times, Dec. 31, 2014).
Dr. Brown should read Gary Pittman’s “Toxic Torts” to find out just how perfectly the description of “toxic sludge” does fit fluoridation. Pittman describes his many years of work in the phosphate fertilizer industry in Florida, where much of our nation’s fluoride chemicals have come from, and still do for most parts of the country. Ours on Cape Ann now come from China, and I don’t imagine conditions over there are any better.
Pittman describes how fluoride chemicals released into the air etched the glass of their cars in the parking lot. They had to move the parking lot away from the plant — and how secretaries emerging from their cars had the pantyhose disintegrate right off their legs upon exposure to fluoridated air. Almost everyone Gary worked with died young of one mysterious illness or another. Gary himself was ill from fluoride toxicity as he wrote the book.
Dr. Brown’s objection to calling fluoridation chemicals “toxic sludge” is naive at best.
Early “scientific” studies were rigged to help industry get rid of their fluoride wastes. Philip Sutton, Ph.D., wrote a debunking of these early studies in his book “Fluoridation: Errors and Omissions.” Where fluoride occurs naturally, it comes along with other elements common to “hard water”, such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and boron, which are good for teeth, compensating for the bone destructive effects of fluoride. That fluoride got isolated out from these other beneficial elements and pronounced the source of good teeth was a rush to judgment — poor judgment at that.
In the two original test communities, Newburgh and Kingston, fluoridated Newburgh to this day has poorer oral health, more heart disease, broken bones and violent crime than unfluoridated Kingston —even though Newburgh has six times the natural calcium in its water, which is probably why it was chosen.
In Grand Rapids, another early test community, two sisters have come forward to say that when “scientists” discovered they had mouths full of cavities despite fluoridation, they got dropped from the study. Who knows how many other kids got dropped for the same reason?
No one is accusing boards of health or dentists of malicious intent in pushing a harmful unapproved drug on us for no good reason. However, their inadequate reasoning and intellectual lethargy and can’t forever remain disguised behind a curtain of authority............