The Fluoride Wars

Author : R. Allan Freeze,Jay H. Lehr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780470463673

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The Fluoride Wars by R. Allan Freeze,Jay H. Lehr Pdf

A lively account of fluoridation and its discontents Since its first implementation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945, public drinking water fluoridation and its attendant conflicts, controversies, and conspiracy theories serve as an object lesson in American science, public health, and policymaking. In addition to the arguments on the issue still raging today, the tale of fluoridation and its discontents also resonates with such present concerns as genetically modified foods, global warming response, nuclear power, and environmental regulation. Offering the best current thinking on the issue, The Fluoride Wars presents a witty and detailed social history of the fluoridation debate in America, illuminating the intersection of science and politics in our recent past. This reader-friendly assessment explores the pro- and anti-fluoridation movements, key players, and important events. Full of amusing and vivid anecdotes and examples, this accessible recounting includes: A careful and non-condescending look at the hard science, popular science, pseudo-science, and junk science involved A look at fluoride issues including dosage, cost, financial and funding interests, fluorosis, and problems of risk-cost-benefit analysis The back-and-forth drama between pro- and anti-fluoridation factions, with all its claims, counterclaims, insults, acrimony, and lawsuits Case studies of various cities and their experiences with municipal water fluoridation initiatives Fluorophobia and popular conspiracy theories involving fluoride The colorful characters in the debate including activists, scientists, magicians, and politicians A richly and considerately told tale of American science and public life, The Fluoride Wars offers an engrossing history to both interested general readers and specialists in public health, dentistry, policymaking, and related fields.

Author : Paul H. Connett,James S. Beck,H. S. Micklem
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781603582872

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The Case Against Fluoride by Paul H. Connett,James S. Beck,H. S. Micklem Pdf

In the case of water fluoridation, the chemicals used to fluoridate the water that more than 180 million people drink each day are not pharmaceutical grade, but rather hazardous waste products of the phosphate fertilizer industry; it is illegal to dump them into rivers and lakes or release them into the atmosphere. And water fluoridation is a prime example of one of the worst medical practices possible-forced medication with no control over the dose or who gets it. Perhaps most shocking of all, it is not subject to any federal regulation. At once painstakingly-documented and also highly-readable, The Case Against Fluoride brings new research to light, including links between fluoride and harm to the brain, bones, and kidneys, and argues that while there is possible value in topical applications like brushing your teeth with fluoride toothpaste, the evidence that swallowing fluoride reduces tooth decay is surprisingly weak.

Author : Christopher Bryson
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781609800086

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The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson Pdf

With the narrative punch of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action and the commitment to environmental truth-telling of Erin Brockovich, The Fluoride Deception documents a powerful connection between big corporations, the U.S. military, and the historic reassurances of fluoride safety provided by the nation’s public health establishment. The Fluoride Deception reads like a thriller, but one supported by two hundred pages of source notes, years of investigative reporting, scores of scientist interviews, and archival research in places such as the newly opened files of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Energy Commission. The book is nothing less than an exhumation of one of the great secret narratives of the industrial era: how a grim workplace poison and the most damaging environmental pollutant of the cold war was added to our drinking water and toothpaste.

Author : Barry Groves
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780717163779

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Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death? by Barry Groves Pdf

Fluoride is more toxic than lead, yet it is routinely added to the drinking water of Ireland and Britain. In Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?, Barry Groves presents an array of convincing and persuasive arguments that dismantle the commonly held belief that the fluoridation of water is beneficial to our health. The fluoridation of water has been used for the prevention of tooth decay for over fifty years. During this time little research has been done to ascertain whether it works. The chemicals used are classified as toxic industrial waste, yet no study has ever been conducted into their safety for human consumption. At the same time, research has uncovered serious side effects including death, cancer, skeletal fluorosis, osteoporosis, dementia, lowered IQ, kidney damage and even increased dental decay. Fluoride is only slightly less toxic than arsenic and all the evidence points incontrovertibly to the harm caused by fluoride to human, plant and animal life. Yet it is routinely added to the drinking water of five million people in Britain and more than two and a half million people in Ireland. Strongly opposed throughout the world, water fluoridation is far less widely accepted than its proponents would have us believe. Only two percent of the people of Western Europe have their water fluoridated — almost all of them within Britain and Ireland. Despite this, dental organisations lobby governments to compel everyone to ingest fluoride, whether they want it or not and without regard to possible harm. The vast majority of dentists maintain that the fluoridation of water is not debatable. In this book, Barry Groves assembles evidence to refute every single argument made by the dental establishment in favour of fluoridation. This carefully researched and persuasively written book demonstrates that the case for fluoridation of water is based on poor science and dogmatic ignorance rather than on any scientifically proven benefit to public health. His conclusions are truly alarming for everyone concerned with their own health, that of their families and of society in general. Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?: Table of Contents Introduction - Water Fluoridation - Fluoride and Water Safety - Cancer and Fluoride - Safe Limit for Fluoride - Research into Fluoride - Fluoridation and High Infant Mortality - Fluoride as a Cumulative Poison - Fluoride Kills - People at Risk from Fluoride - EPA Scientists and Fluoride - Support for Fluoridation Diminishes in America - The Totality of Fluoride - The Ethics and Legality of Fluoridation - Dental Fluorosis - The Dose Makes the Poison - Fluoride-Related Bone Problems, Part One - Fluoride-Related Bone Problems, Part Two - The Death of Science - The Poor and Fluoride Toxicity - Sugar and Truth Decay - Money Down the Drain - The History of Water Fluoridation, Part One - Arsenic and Old Lies - The History of Water Fluoridation, Part Two - Dentrifrice — or Rodenticide? - Europe Against Fluoride - Skeletal Fluorosis - The Public and Fluoride - Legislating for Fluoride - Fluoride Not an Essential Nutrient - Fluoride and Controversy - The UK Review: The Final Word on Fluoride? - Are You at Risk?Conclusion Appendix: Scientific Opposition to Fluoride

Author : George L. Waldbott,Albert W. Burgstahler,Henry Lewis McKinney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015009900450

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Fluoridation by George L. Waldbott,Albert W. Burgstahler,Henry Lewis McKinney Pdf

Author : Frank James McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fluorides
ISBN : UOM:39015011088401

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Water Fluoridation, the Search and the Victory by Frank James McClure Pdf

Author : Frederick B. Exner,George L. Waldbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Fluorination
ISBN : UOM:39015023427480

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The American Fluoridation Experiment by Frederick B. Exner,George L. Waldbott Pdf

Author : Stephen Barrett,Sheldon Rovin
Publisher : J.P. Lippincott
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Dental caries
ISBN : UOM:39015009886477

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The Tooth Robbers by Stephen Barrett,Sheldon Rovin Pdf

Abstract: The fluoridation controversy is the subject of this collection of articles, letters, advertisements, and additional materials compiled by the Lehigh Valley (Pennsylvania) Committee Against Health Fraud, Inc., an independent organization working to combat deception in the field of health. Materials are organized into three major sections entitled 1) tooth robbers and how to spot them, 2) fluoridation facts, and 3) fighting for teeth. Section One introduces the major opponents of fluoridation, their arguments, methods of delivery, and sources of motivation. A fluoridation update reviews progress made thus far in making fluoridation mandatory at the state level. Answers are given to 100 of the most frequently asked questions about fluoridation in the areas of definition, benefits and effectiveness, safety, cost, alternatives, social and legal issues, opponents, and politics of fluoridation. Recommendations and suggestions for conducting a successful fluoridation compaign are presented along with a variety of campaign materials. Materials include magazine and newspaper articles, official statements by government and professional organizations, a list of professional organizations endorsing fluoridation, public service messages, posters, and a series of advertisements designed to educate the community about fluoridation and to generate voter support for fluoridation immediately prior to a referendum (aje).

Author : Brian Allen Drake
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804859

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Loving Nature, Fearing the State by Brian Allen Drake Pdf

A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings. In this wide-ranging history, Drake explores the tensions inherent in balancing an ideology dedicated to limiting the power of government with a commitment to protecting treasured landscapes and ecological health. Drake argues that "antistatist" beliefs--an individualist ethos and a mistrust of government--have colored the American passion for wilderness but also complicated environmental protection efforts. While most of the successes of the environmental movement have been enacted through the federal government, conservative and libertarian critiques of big-government environmentalism have increasingly resisted the idea that strengthening state power is the only way to protect the environment. Loving Nature, Fearing the State traces the influence of conservative environmental thought through the stories of important actors in postwar environmental movements. The book follows small-government pioneer Barry Goldwater as he tries to establish federally protected wilderness lands in the Arizona desert and shows how Goldwater's intellectual and ideological struggles with this effort provide a framework for understanding the dilemmas of an antistatist environmentalism. It links antigovernment activism with environmental public health concerns by analyzing opposition to government fluoridation campaigns and investigates environmentalism from a libertarian economic perspective through the work of free-market environmentalists. Drake also sees in the work of Edward Abbey an argument that reverence for nature can form the basis for resistance to state power. Each chapter highlights debates and tensions that are important to understanding environmental history and the challenges that face environmental protection efforts today.

Author : Emma M. Jones
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780991597

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Parched City by Emma M. Jones Pdf

Safe drinking water is essential to daily life. Meeting that demand with bottled water is a luxury too far, argues Emma Jones. She is not a lone critic of the packaged water industry. However, this author looks to history for solutions to a major sustainability problem: in the design, management and use of the city. With original stories from London's archives, Parched City tracks drinking-water obsessions through a popular architectural history tale.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Dental caries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126827208

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Reducing Tooth Decay, More Emphasis on Fluoridation Needed by United States. General Accounting Office Pdf

Author : Anne-Lise Gotzsche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Dental policy
ISBN : UOM:39015006451648

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The Fluoride Question by Anne-Lise Gotzsche Pdf

Author : United States. Public Health Service. Committee to Coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Fluoride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fluorides
ISBN : UOM:39015011069781

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Review of Fluoride Benefits and Risks by United States. Public Health Service. Committee to Coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Fluoride Pdf

Author : United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Committee to Coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Fluoride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fluorides
ISBN : UCSD:31822007101736

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Review of Fluoride Benefits and Risks by United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Committee to Coordinate Environmental Health and Related Programs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Fluoride Pdf

Author : Will Allen
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933392462

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The War on Bugs by Will Allen Pdf

"From the start, farmers and consumers opposed the marketers' noxious shill. But more than a century of collusion among advertisers, editors, scientists, large-scale farmers, government agencies - and even Dr. Seuss - convinced most farmers to use deadly chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, and, more recently, genetically modified organisms." "Akin to seminal works on the topic like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink's 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs, and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, The War on Bugs - richly illustrated with dozens of original advertisements and promotions - details both the chemical industry's relentless efforts and the recurring waves of resistance by generations of consumers, farmers, and activists against toxic food, a struggle that continues today but with deep roots in the long rise of industrial agriculture."--BOOK JACKET.