The Fluoride Deception

by BRYSON, CHRISTOPHERCOLBORN, THEO

• ISBN13: 9781583225264
• ISBN10: 1583225269
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-03
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

A chronicle of the abuse of power and of the manufacture of state-sponsored medical propaganda, The Fluoride Deception reveals how military and industry scientists and public health officials buried information about fluoride's potential for human harm, while promoting its use in dentistry. The Fluoride Deception reveals that fluoride pollution was the greatest legal threat facing the wartime Manhattan Project. And the book documents how a secretive group of powerful industries, who all faced extensive litigation for flouride pollution, collaborated with the Institute of Dental Research to launder flouride's image. We'll meet the dissident scientists who warned us about fluoride from the beginning. We'll sit with the famous doctor who'd alerted America in the 1950's to the dangers of cigarette smoking, who reported that fluoride was a systemic poison, with tens of thousands of citizens uniquely sensitive to even tiny doses. We'll walk the cobbled streets of Donora, Pennsylvania, in the shrouded aftermath of the nation's most notorious air pollution disaster in 1948, and meet the scientist who blamed -fluoride for the deaths. Today, that scientist joins a growing number of health experts who call fluoride a venomous and hydra-headed poison. They suspect its involvement in a host of modern illnesses, including arthritis, bone cancer, and emphysema, and a spectrum of central nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and the epidemic of attention deficit disorder sweeping America's children. Christopher Bryson is an award-winning Columbia Journalism School-trained investigative reporter and television producer. After reporting on Guatemalan Army human rights abuses from Central America in the late 1980s for the BBC World Service, National Public Radio, and The Atlanta Constitution, he won a George Polk Award for work at Public Television's The Kwitny Report. In 1998, he was part of a team that won a National Headliner award at ABC News Productions for a History Channel documentary on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Note on Terminology	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiv
Major Figures in the Fluoride Story	p. xxii
Through the Looking Glass	p. 1
Fireworks at Forsyth	p. 11
Opposite Sides of the Atlantic	p. 30
General Groves's Problem	p. 45
General Groves's Solution: Dr. Harold Hodge and the University of Rochester	p. 65
How the Manhattan Project Sold Us Fluoride: Newburgh, Harshaw, and Jim Conant's Ruse	p. 78
A Subterranean Channel of Secret-Keeping	p. 91
Robert Kehoe and The Kettering Laboratory	p. 101
Donora: A Rich Man's Hocus Pocus	p. 114
The Public Health Service Investigation	p. 133
As Vital to Our National Life As a Spark Plug to a Motor Car	p. 148
Engineering Consent	p. 158
Showdown in the West: Martin vs. Reynolds Metals	p. 168
Fluorine Lawyers and Government Dentists: "A Very Worthwhile Contribution"	p. 176
Buried Science, Buried Workers	p. 184
Hurricane Creek: The People Rule	p. 202
The Damage Is Done	p. 217
Epilogue: Blind to the Truth?	p. 230
Postscript: Dr. Arvid Carlsson, 2000 Nobel Laureate	p. 240
Note on Sources	p. 242
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 359
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