The Fluoride Deception
by Christopher Bryson, Theo Colborn
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Author: Christopher Bryson, Theo ColbornEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-02-03
ISBN: 1583225269
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Book Review: 4 Out Of 5 Dentists Will Not Recommend This Book
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been researching the topic of fluoride for the last couple years. This is the best source on the topic yet. And I would encourage anyone reading my review first, to peruse the others as well, as they fill in the gaps with other topics I may have missed for lack of space. Together, they all paint a big picture of why this book is so important.
Bryson does not merely make a convincing argument for the dangers of fluoride. Yes, he does that, too. More importantly, though, he blows the doors wide open on the deliberate deception by industry and government to hide these dangers and to, in fact, sell its necessity to the public in direct contradiction to these dangers. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, he was able to procure a wealth of first-hand documents from the very people in industry and government who made this deception happen. Memos, letters, directives - he saw them all, and his exhaustive documentation of them illuminate the depth of the deception. It was this very fact that impressed me most about the book. As a historian, I was pleasantly surprised by how much first-hand documents he cited. Here were the very words of the people leading the industrial and govermental move to suppress the dangers and, indeed, sell fluoride as something good for us all! (Let us see your beautiful smiles!)
The deception was big. Fluoride played a huge role in the development of atomic weapons, but it was a massive environmental and health pollutant. "National security" reasons dictated a need to hide these dangers, so a massive PR movement began to find publicly-accepted outlets for it: Enter toothpaste and the water supply. Smile, indeed! You're ingesting nuclear waste.
Perhaps the most important part of the book is the chapter about propaganda and the molding of public opinion. It offers so much insight into how the American public are so often duped by the military-industrial state. The author interviews Edward Bernays, the "Father of Public Relations" (who was 102 years old at the interview). He was one of the government's top propagandists, even as far back as WWI. Bernays tells Bryson that selling the American public on fluoride was easy because of Americans' inherent trust in "medical authority". People simply want to believe their doctors know everything. Once industry found a few doctors and dentists to play the game by pushing the fluoride-is-good-for-you idea (and at the same time, suppressing any negative publicity), the power of collective thinking ensured the deception's effectiveness.
And as one other reviewer wrote . . . makes one wonder what else they may be lying about.
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