Evidence is accumulating in science to indicate that fluoride softens bones and teeth. There is a scientific logic to explain why. Calcium, the primary hardener for bones and teeth, can form two bonds with oxygen to create chains. Fluoride can only create one bond. So if fluoride combines with calcium, it breaks the chain.

Gary Null, Ph.D.

At one time, fluoride therapy was recommended for building denser bones and preventing fractures associated with osteoporosis. Now several articles in peer-reviewed journals suggest that fluoride actually causes more harm than good, as it is associated with bone breakage.

A 1992 University of Arizona study yielded surprising results when they found that "the more fluoride a child drinks, the more cavities appear in the teeth."

The words of Dr. John Yiamouyiannis: "The fact is that fluoride is more toxic than lead and just slightly less toxic than arsenic."

Yiamouyiannis adds, "In highly naturally-fluoridated areas, the teeth actually crumble as a result. These are the first visible symptoms of fluoride poisoning."

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Darlene Sherrell

Children have died in the dentist's chair after treatment with topical fluoride. Adults have died during kidney dialysis when fluoride spills (in the water supply) occurred but were not reported.

In February of 1972 the ADA reported that in fluoridated cities, the dentists reaped a net profit 17% higher than in nonfluoridated cities.

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To make a long story short, the rationale goes like this:

If muddy water is poured onto a floor, the floor will last 18-25% longer. If this practice were mandated for everyone, what a tremendous savings it would be for home owners. It's true that furniture legs would rot faster, but the surface of the floor would be hardened by minerals, and friction would be reduced. There would be 10,000 more hip fractures per year, but they would occur in the elderly due to their lack of precautions. There would be 5,000 more kids dying from infectious diseases each year, but there are risks with everything.

It seems to me that there are certain standards and ways of approaching a subject that constitute fraud.

Fluoridation is so nihilistic that it is more of a belief system than a product of science or technology, but health treatments and hazards are supposed to be based upon science, and there has been a peripheral use of science to justify the pretense of a health value.

Fortunately, truth gradually evolves in science.