The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson Summary and Reviews
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Book Review: A tale of PR whitewash and corporate/government collusion
Summary: 5 Stars
"If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away." Those words, or something similar, are on every tube of fluoride toothpaste sold in America. What could be in it to cause such a warning? According to this book, it's the fluoride.
Fluoride is not some safe, innocuous substance that happens to fight cavities. It is used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons, to prepare Sarin nerve gas, to produce high octane gasoline, also to make refrigerant gases and Teflon plastic. It is also used in drugs like Prozac and Cipro. Fluoride is a potential workplace poison and grave environmental hazard.
Since the 1930s, fluoride has been linked, in Europe, to a number of illnesses, like central nervous system disorders, breathing problems and a number of arthritis-like ailments. But during the Cold War, with help from researchers funded by the government and industry, no such problems were reported in America. It is as if "American" fluoride and "European" fluoride have two different sets of properties. Can anyone say "scientific fraud?"
Fluoride may actually help the teeth, but the evidence is not clear-cut. Cavity rates have fallen dramatically since the 1940s, but also in countries that don't fluoridate their water. Perhaps good nutrition, better dental care and antibiotics can explain it.
The vast majority, nearly 90 percent, of the fluoride added to drinking water is actually industrial waste, scraped from the smokestacks of Florida phosphate fertilizer mills. The companies are spared the expense of treating this "fluosilicic acid" as toxic waste. Instead, it is sold to towns all over America. Shipped in rubber-lined tanker trucks, it is dumped into municipal reserviors, supposedly to fight cavities.
On several levels, this book easily reaches the level of Wow. This well-written tale of public relations whitewash and corporate/government collusion at the people's expense has over 100 pages of footnotes, and is very much a Must Read.
Book Review: a pageturner.. and it is non-fiction!
Summary: 5 Stars
this book is must reading for anybody who feels that there is something very wrong going on in this world right under ones nose ..but does not have a clue as to what to look for .......
.....this book is a masterpiece of many years of research and it is like a smack in the face right from the start...where the author writes:
"..since world war 2, fluoride has been the most damaging poison..."
or: "fluoride can be up to 50 times more toxic than sulfur dioxide or ozone"
"there can be no such thing as a safe concentration..."
"by hunting enzymes, fluorine compounds were the natural enemies of humanity...they destroy the enzyme process."
.....and the authors incisiveness does not end when he writes: "IT WAS A LIE WORTHY OF JOSEPH GOEBBELS."
......warning : do not read this book if you suffer from severe anger attacks or rage....
Book Review: Makes you wonder what other truths are hidden by smirks.
Summary: 5 Stars
Seriously, it's a sort of comical taboo that you just don't question water fluoridation. Of course it's safe! You're a conspiracy freak like General Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove or a holistic health nut if you say otherwise. Canada, China (which conducted the largest study of its kind), and several European countries no longer fluoridate their drinking supply. Portland, Oregon is the same way. Modern mass double-blind studies have shown it contributes to weak bones, low intelligence, and ulcers of the stomach and mouth...not to mention that it does nothing to improve dental health by ingesting it. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a leading contributor to that IBS that increasingly afflicts so many. The science used to support fluoridation is outright junk science...slanted by anti-commies and fluoride money. The fluoride money got the "marketing" of fluoride going, then the "patriots" perpetuated it by saying our children's strong teeth would help defeat the atheists. Then the dentists, the same ones who flunked out of medical school, tried to back it up with skewed ADA stats...and people actually believed all three groups. So wipe that damn smile off your face and read this book.
"The great enemy of truth is often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth." JFK
Book Review: Don't give your children flourinated water!
Summary: 5 Stars
I decided to read this book as my son's dentist said, "make sure your son has flourinated water". I wanted to research what exactly flouride did when digested and how safe it really is. Christopher Bryson does an amazing job with this book. I would like to see this book turn into a movie. I could not believe how much the government was involved with flouride and how many people suffered needlessly at the hands of these evil corporations. I doubt this book will ever make it into a movie because the big government would stop it dead in its tracks. They don't want you to know the truth about this deadly substance that is being put in your drinking water. My city has flourinated water so needless to say, we drink only springfed. I won't touch the flouride and will never let my children have it.Book Review: The fluoride book I have been waiting for
Summary: 5 Stars
It is the book I have been waiting for since 1997, when I read his and Joel Griffiths?s article about fluoride and the Manhattan Project. Bryson?s book is a landmark in the field, and full of original material, much recently declassified. It will be prominently featured in my fluoride essay when I re-edit my site sometime in the next year (I hope!). Bryson?s book reveals matters far more horrific than I related I my original essay. There were numerous fluorine accidents during the Manhattan Project, with workers literally disintegrating at times. It was all covered up in the name of ?national security.? There were many places in the book where I had to step back and take in the institutional evil that Bryson was documenting. Plenty was hair-raising. For instance, during the Manhattan Project, the protection afforded workers was nil, and many worked in a constant mist of hydrogen fluoride (HF), one of the deadliest acids known. Where the workers were most exposed to the HF, white people were not allowed as their skin damage was too obvious. So, in the most dangerous HF environments, the only workers allowed were black.
The U.S. government took the line of fluoride polluters, spinning an extremely hazardous waste into a health product. Much of the spinning happened just as Orwell?s 1984 was being published. I am not sure what the scariest part of the book is. Is it that the U.S. government performed extensive research into fluorine?s effect in the central nervous system (and all the results are still classified)? Or perhaps that the same people performing those experiments (who also performed the notorious plutonium experiments on unwitting subjects), were the same ?scientists? who produced the ?information? that showed how harmless fluoride was for people, as well as good for our teeth?! Bryson uncovered one study that showed the deleterious effects of fluoride on animal subjects, research that was paid for by fluoride polluters in the 1960s as they tried defending themselves from pollutions lawsuits. The results were so damning they were buried for 40 years until Bryson discovered it (the study showed fluoride causing emphysema when inhaled). All in all, Bryson?s book is an amazing effort.