Seventy-eight years ago, on January 25, 1945, dentists convinced government officials to experiment on all Grand Rapids, Michigan, residents to prove that (not if) dosing the public’s water supply with untested sodium-fluoride chemicals would make children's developing teeth cavity-free. It ended prematurely, control city was fluoridated, promoted with PR, and evidence of harm ignored or untested.
Planned to last 15 years, the 1945 study ended prematurely after 6 ½ years. Teeth of most children born into the experiment hadn't even erupted yet. Muskegon, the non-fluoridated comparison or control city began fluoridating its water in 1951; thereby, negating the experiment.
An American Dental Association (ADA) news release reported, "many communities did not wait for the studies to be completed before starting their own fluoridation efforts. By 1950, [fluoridation] had the full support of the ADA." This support came without any safety evidence.
Grand
Rapids citizens' health was untested. But Newburgh NY's healthy
schoolchildren were examined in another 1945 human experiment, also cut short
prematurely. Newburgh kids suffered more bone defects, anemia and earlier
female menstruation after 10 years (Journal of the American Dental
Association, 1956). These findings were dismissed.
In
1951, dentists strategized ("Proceedings 4th annual
conference of state dental directors") on how to sell
fluoridation using misinformation and misdirection e.g. "We have
told the public it works, so we can't go back on that." And "those
research people, they can't get over their feeling that you have to have test tube
and animal research before you start applying it to human beings."
Edward Bernays, the father
of public relations, promoted fluoridation, consulting on strategy
for the National Institute of Dental Research. "Selling fluoride was child's
play," Bernays told the author of The Fluoride Deception. Bernays said citizens trust
medical authority. So Bernays fooled doctors to believe in fluoridation – a
tactic used by today fluoridation PR flacks.
Chemical & Engineering News reported: "Rational voices of opposition were suppressed from the start.” Science justified those fears. Fluoride isn't a nutrient or required for healthy teeth and has serious side effects, rendering fluoridation unnecessary and harmful.
Fluoridation
is celebrated ignoring strong fluoride/brain links, 100 years of damning fluoride/kidney & thyroid research and that cavity experience and inequities increased in the last 20 years despite
widespread fluoridation contributing to US children's fluoride-damaged teeth-
dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow splotched teeth afflicting
70% of US children and adolescents).
Instead
of putting themselves out of business as predicted 78 years ago, fluoridation
has created a new lucrative market for cosmetic dentistry
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