In 1945 dentists set out to prove that adding fluoride
chemicals into public water supplies safely prevented children’s
tooth decay. The studies failed; but early fluoridationists ignored
this inconvenient truth and forged ahead. Now with 2/3 of public
water supplies fluoridated, Americans are fluoride overdosed and
suffer from fluoride’s toxic effects as cavity rates climb.
In 1955, ten years into the experiment, researchers reported
more bone defects, anemia and earlier female menstruation in children
purposely dosed with sodium fluoride-laced drinking water (1956
Journal of the American Dental Association). This is the first,
and only, fluoridation human health experiment which was carried
out on the entire population in the city of Newburgh NY.
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How did this happen?
In the early 1900’s, brown and yellow discolored, but decay
resistant, teeth were prevalent in healthier, wealthier U.S. populations
drinking and irrigating their crops with naturally calcium-fluoridated
water.
Researchers discovered fluoride was the tooth discoloring culprit
and mistakenly thought fluoride was also the cavity-fighting hero
– unaware that calcium was required to grow sound dentition.
And also unaware of Dentist Weston Price’s extensive research
published in 1939 showing that without fluoride, healthier populations
had healthier teeth because of good diets.
Public health officials, so sure sodium fluoride safely benefited
children’s teeth, had no misgivings about carrying out this
very unusual experiment without first doing animal studies, without
informed consent and without thought or interest about how sodium
fluoride could afflict adults.
Mistakenly assuming all fluorides are the same, in 1945, sodium
fluoride, waste products from industries such as Alcoa Aluminum
Company (not natural calcium-fluoride), was added to Newburgh
NY’s water supply at about one milligram fluoride per liter
of water. Kingston NY, the control city for comparison purposes,
was left fluoride-free.
Kingston and Newburgh are thirty-five miles apart on the Hudson
River in New York State and in 1940 had populations of 31,956
and 28,817, respectively. In Newburgh, 500 children were examined
after ten years and 405 in Kingston. Adults were never tested.
Although planned to last ten years, due to political pressure,
the Newburgh/Kingston study was declared a success after five
years which caused many U.S. cities to start fluoridation prematurely.
Newburgh’s children were given complete physicals and x-rays,
over the course of the study, from birth to age nine in the first
year and up to age eighteen in the final year.
“(R)outine laboratory studies were omitted in the control
group during most of the study, they were included in the final
examination,” according to Schlesinger and colleagues, in
“Newburgh-Kingston caries-fluorine study XIII. Pediatric
findings after ten years.”
The researchers report after ten years of fluoridation in Newburgh
New York:
– “The average age at the menarche was 12 years among
the girls studied in Newburgh and 12 years 5 months among the
girls in Kingston.”
–Hemoglobin (iron-containing part of a red blood cell):
“a few more children in the range below 12.9 grams per hundred
milliliters in Newburgh”
–“…a slightly higher proportion of children
in Newburgh were found to have a total erythrocyte (red blood
cell) count below 4,400,000 per milliliter”
–Knee X-rays of Newburgh children reveals more cortical
bone defects, and irregular mineralization of the thigh bone.
Only twenty-five Newburgh children had eye and ear exams. Two
had hearing loss; eight had abnormal vision. Even though researchers
discovered more adult cataracts in surveys conducted before 1944
in communities with naturally high water fluoride concentrations
Newburgh and Kingston adults were never checked for this defect.
Only two groups of twelve-year-old boys were tested for fluoride’s
toxic kidney effects.
In a statewide survey conducted in 1954, J. A. Forst, M.D a New
York public health official reported observing one-third more
dental defects, including malposition of teeth, in fluoridated
Newburgh, New York, than in the non-fluoridated control city of
Kingston.
The 2004 book “The Fluoride Deception,”
by Christopher Bryson, reveals that in addition to NYS Dep’t
of Health examinations “the University of Rochester conducted
its own studies, measuring how much fluoride Newburgh citizens
retained in their blood and tissues. Health Department personnel
cooperated, shipping blood and placenta samples to the Rochester
scientists,” writes Bryson. Three times as much fluoride
was found in the placentas and blood samples gathered from Newburgh
as from non-fluoridated Rochester, reports Bryson.
Following back the scientific references in all current fluoridation
safety literature will invariably lead back to the Newburgh/Kingston
study which actually failed to prove fluoridation is safe for
all who drink it although public health officials and dentists
tell a different story..
On January 25, 1945, Grand Rapids Michigan was actually the first
U.S. city to fluoridate; without health effects measured. Even
that study is scientifically dishonest. After five years tooth
decay declined equally in Grand Rapids and its control city Muskegon
Michigan so Muskegon’s water was fluoridated which actually
invalidated this experiment.
So it’s not surprising that a toxicological review of current
fluoride science by the prestigious National Academies shows that
fluoride jeopardizes health - even at lowlevels deliberately added
to public water supplies.
Fluoride poses risks to the thyroid gland, diabetics, kidney
patients, high water drinkers and others and can severely damage
children’s teeth. Further studies linking fluoride to cancer
and lowered IQ are plausible, they report.
