Veteran investigative journalist Christopher Bryson’s new book on the highly
controversial subject of fluoride could not come at a more important time.
There has long been a question whether flouride is harmful or beneficial.
Christopher Bryson’s has definitely completed his research on this important topic.
If you have questions about flouride, his book appears to have some very though provoking answers.
In August 2003, the EPA requested that the National Research Council, the
research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, review recent scientific
literature to reevaluate our water fluoride safety standards. In the last review in 1993 there were found to be major gaps in research. Several studies of fluoride
toxicity since then strongly suggest that the current standard used by the EPA
may have to be dramatically revised downward and the almost sixty-year-old
practice of artificial water fluoridation abandoned.
Bryson’s book begins by relating how one of those recent pieces of research,
conducted by the Harvard toxicologist Phyllis Mullenix during the 1990‚s,
showed that fluoride in water produces symptoms in rats strongly resembling
attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). (Between 3 and 6 percent of
all US schoolchildren suffer this illness.) Just days before her research was
accepted for publication, Mullenix was fired as the head of toxicology at the
Forsyth Dental Center in Boston.
In a society where asbestos, lead, silica, beryllium and many other carcinogens
have found their way into the marketplace and then been recalled, one has to
wonder why fluoride, so toxic it is used as a rat poison and pesticide, is
embraced so thoroughly and so blindly.
With the narrative punch of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action and the commitment
to environmental truth-telling of Erin Brockovich, The Fluoride Deception (Seven
Stories Press, May 3, 2004) documents a powerful connection between big
corporations, the US military and the historic reassurances of fluoride safety
provided by the nation’s public health establishment.
For example, the book reveals how the leading scientific promoter of water
fluoridation during the cold war, Dr. Harold C. Hodge, had been the senior
toxicologist for the US Army Manhattan Project, where he had helped
orchestrate medical experiments in which patients were, unbeknownst to them,
injected with plutonium and uranium to determine the toxic effects of those
chemicals. Hodge had similarly been charged by the Manhattan Project with
investigating fluoride toxicity, (fluoride is a key chemical used to enrich
uranium). So, while Dr. Hodge was reassuring Congress of the safety of water
fluoridation, he was covertly shaping one of the nation’s first public water
fluoridation experiments in Newburgh, New York, secretly studying biological
samples from Newburgh citizens at his US Army laboratory at the University of
Rochester. Newburgh’s trumpeted verdict that fluoride was safe in low doses
was profoundly helpful for the US military who feared lawsuits for fluoride injury
from workers in nuclear plants.
The Fluoride Deception shows that fluoride pollution was one of the biggest
legal worries facing additional key US industrial sectors during the cold war.
And the book documents how a hitherto-secret group of corporate attorneys,
known as the Fluorine Lawyers Committee, whose members included U.S.
Steel, Alcoa, Kaiser Aluminum, Reynolds Metals, commissioned research at the
Kettering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati to "provide ammunition" to
those corporations who were then fighting a tidal wave of citizen claims for
fluoride injury. The research was directed by Dr. Robert A. Kehoe, more famous
for his lifetime defense of the safety of leaded gasoline. When the half million
dollar medical study showed that fluoride poisoned lungs and lymph nodes in
laboratory animals, the research was buried, until Bryson dug up a copy during
research for his book. One leading scientist who reviewed the 40 year old
Kettering study suggested that its non-publication might have been responsible
for an epidemic of emphysema among key sector of the industrial workforce.
(Bryson has sent a copy to the NRC panel for review.)
Also consider:
— The legendary father of public relations, Edward L. Bernays, until now more
famous for his role persuading women to smoke cigarettes, took a leading role
in promoting water fluoridation in the United States, the book reveals, advising
both the United States Public Health Service and the New York City Health
Department;
— The book documents how the Fluorine Lawyers Committee and their medical
ambassadors were in personal and frequent contact with the senior officials of
the federal National Institute for Dental Research, discussing how safety studies
ostensibly conducted to prove water fluoridation safe, could also help industry;
— The burial of the Kettering study means that there are today no published
animal studies on fluoride dust inhalation to cite for the current occupational
standard;
— One of the worst air pollution disasters in the US—which jump-started the US
environmental movement—occurred in Donora, PA, during Halloween 1948, in
which twenty people were killed and thousands injured when industrial
pollution was released from a U.S. Steel plant. Industry and the Public Health
Service blamed bad weather and U.S. Steel never admitted responsibility. But
secret medical studies performed by industry and uncovered by Bryson reveal
extraordinarily high fluoride levels in victims’ blood;
— Although fluoride is up to 50 times more toxic than better known air pollutants
such as sulfur dioxide, and although thousand of pounds are belched out of the
nation’s coal burning electric power stations, fluoride is not regulated as a bad-
boy "criteria" air pollutant by the federal Clean Air Act;
— Most of Western Europe does not fluoridate their water, and yet their
improved dental records over the last 50 years mirrors the same increases seen
in the US.
Christopher Bryson has reported science news stories for media outlets such as
the BBC and the Christian Science Monitor, and for the Discovery Channel
through NBC and ABC News Productions. He was part of an investigative team
at Public Television that won a George Polk Award for “The Kwitny Report.” The
book has an introduction by Theo Colborn, co-author of Our Stolen Future
(1996), which was the subject of a PBS Frontline documentary, and a postscript
by the 2000 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, Dr. Arvid Carlsson.
The Fluoride Deception reads like a thriller, but one supported by 200 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.
For more on The Fluoride Deception, please look at this recent press:
Read Dr. Joseph Mercola’s review, and his interview with Christopher Bryson:
http://mercola.com/2004/jun/9/fluoride_deception.htm
http://mercola.com/2004/jun/12/fluoride_deception.htm
Read a recent Guardian article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1233560,00.html
Read the Publishers Weekly review:
http://reviews.publishersweekly.com/searchDetail.aspx?id=1583225269
I thought this release would be of particular interest to you. I hope you’ll
consider covering the issues in The Fluoride Deception. Review copies are
available if you are interested in reviewing the book, and an interview with the
author may also be arranged. For further information, please contact Ruth
Weiner at 212-226-8760 / ruth@sevenstories.com. Should you have an interest
in purchasing bulk copies at a discount for resale or distribution, please contact
Lars Reilly at lars@sevenstories.com.
Warm Regards,
Crystal Yakacki
Seven Stories Press
crystal@sevenstories.com
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CHRISTOPHER BRYSON’S
THE FLUORIDE DECEPTION
“The addition of fluoride to water supplies violates modern pharmacological
principles…In addition, this measure is ethically questionable and
unnecessarily expensive…It is my sincere hope that Christopher Bryson’s
apparently thorough and comprehensive perusal of the scientific literature on
the biological actions of fluoride and the ensuing debates through the years will
receive the attention it deserves and that its implications will be seriously
considered.”
—Dr. Arvid Carlsson, 2000 Nobel Prize Laureate for Medicine
“In much the same way biologist Rachel Carson warned us over forty years ago
in Silent Spring about the havoc and harm being caused by the misuse of
persistent pesticides, journalist Christopher Bryson here lays bare the secret
story and hidden dangers of the introduction of fluoride chemicals from the Cold
War era into our drinking water. The irrefutable evidence of duplicity and cover-
up presented in this book is hair-raising. The Fluoride Deception presents a
scorching indictment of how researchers and health care officials working
closely with government agencies, big industry, and their attorneys have
allowed themselves to surrender their responsibility for the medical wellbeing of
their fellow citizens.”
—Dr. Albert W. Burgstahler, The International Society for Fluoride Research
"Bryson is right on in his emphasis on the ineffectiveness of fluoridation of water
with industrial wastes, and its risks of nerve and brain damage, and cancer,
coupled with the long standing industrial conspiracy to suppress this
information."
—Dr. Sam Epstein, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition
“THE FLUORIDE DECEPTION compellingly and inescapably exposes the
murderous fraud that heads of state and industry have for decades perpetrated
on an innocent public. Extremely well written and tightly researched, THE
FLUORIDE DECEPTION is sure to become the "must read" book in this
important and burgeoning field.”
—Derrick Jensen, author of The Culture of Make Believe and A Language Older
than Words
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christopher Bryson is a veteran investigative reporter
for the BBC and the Christian Science Monitor, Project Censored Award winner,
and part of the investigative team that won a George Polk Award for The Kwitny
Report. Bryson has been investigating the subject of fluoride for over a decade,
culling research and studies from multiple public and private archives around
the United States, including the files of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic
Energy Commission.
THE FLUORIDE DECEPTION
By Christopher Bryson
With an introduction by Theo Colborn
272 pages 5.5” x 8.25” $24.95 Cloth
1-58322-526-9
http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100410610
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