Fluoride History/Politics
Take a peek into the politically charged issue of water fluoridation, how massive debates on its safety and efficacy have sparked, and how the industry and government health authorities continue to protect this toxic yet profitable compound.
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The Fluoride Deception
In this video, award-winning journalist and former BBC producer Christopher Bryson discusses some highlights of his book The Flouride Deception. |
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Is Fluoride Really All That Safe?
Tufts University Professor Sheldon Krimsky reviews The Fluoride Deception, which "reads like a whodunit," uncovering "conspiracies, cover-ups, human casualties, and broken careers… the prime suspects in [which]… are compounds of fluoride." |
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Suppression of Scientific Dissent on Fluoride's Risks and Benefits
Fluoride benefits exaggerated, scientists fired for speaking out, the constant rejection of debate – these are some ways that the fluoride establishment suppresses the uprising against fluoridating water, food, and non-food products. |
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How Industry Influenced EPA's Fluoride Safety Standards
The industry influences the Environmental Protection Agency's fluoride industry standards by funding the major studies used by EPA to determine safe versus toxic levels of fluoride exposure. |
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Fluoride, Teeth and the Atomic Bomb
This unpublished piece from the Christian Science Monitor outlines the history of fluoride, along with revealing the health risks of this "bio-accumulative toxin that Americans ingest every day." |
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Industry and Fluoridation
This excerpt from Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma recounts how “industry welcomed fluoridation with open arms,” and how not only the chemical corporations “would eventually gain financially from the unexpected bonanza.” It unveils the effects of fluoride pollution to human health and animal life, along with some of the lawsuits that highlight the damage. |
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Fluoride: Commie Plot or Capitalist Ploy?
Writing in Covert Action Quarterly, Joel Griffiths takes off from the Akwesasne devastation to discuss the role of fluoride as a "protected pollutant" in the American industrial expansion. |
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Fluoride's Revenge
Daniel Grossman's article in The Progressive asks: has this cure, too, become a disease? Fluoride may hold a number of topical benefits, but it has also been widely known to cause dental fluorosis. Grossman digs deeper into how, despite the risks, fluoride continues to be promoted by dentists and protected by public health officials. |
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