Fluoride, The A-Bomb, Human Experimentation, and Faulty Testing

Fluoride--The A-Bomb, Human Experimentation,

and Faulty Testing

In the process of uranium becoming a nuclear weapon or a reactor fuel, it needs to be “enriched.” So, uranium is enriched with fluoride and the result is called uranium hexafluoride (UF 6 ).

In her book The Battle of Darkness and Light, Mary Sparrowdancer traces the beginning of uranium fission in the late 1930s by German scientists. Not surprisingly, the Nazis put on a big push to develop an A-Bomb.

She also notes the Nuremberg Trials, which had as one of their goals the reaffirming of the sanctity of life and human rights. In the trials, the atrocities of Nazi human experimentation were addressed and condemned.

“As the world breathed a sigh of relief in knowing that the Nazi health officials' experimentation on human beings had been halted in Germany , 1945 marked the year that ‘public health officials' in America began their experimentation on human beings with water fluoridation.” Why does she write “experimentation”? —Because it is a very toxic chemical and little or no testing of its long-term effects had been done.

Looking at the beginning of the campaign to fluoridate drinking water, we can and should assume good intentions on the part of some or many of the original researchers and proponents. Some complexity comes into this picture when we find out much of the early research was funded by Alcoa Aluminum Company, who had fluoride waste to sell—and recently released records show the military was anxious to put a positive face on fluoride. Problems were arising because of crippling health damage to the A-Bomb workers and also livestock near the production plants. The imperatives of producing an A-Bomb before the Nazis led to a devious expediency.

NOTE: One central theory was that fluoride broke down into

harmless parts and passed out of the body.

Part of the complexity here is some fluoride compounds

break down better than others. Calcium fluoride, found

naturally in some water sources, is much less harmful

than the silicofluorides used in over 90 percent of

the fluoridated water systems. These types of

compounds do not effectively break down, that is

disassociate, but are accumulated in the body.

Understandably, an attitude of acceptable risk carried the day. This was understandable in light of the survival/defense posture created by the Japanese attack and Germany 's design for world domination. Also there was the fact that in spite of crippled cows, etc. near the involved plants, there was the theory that fluoride in the body did not accumulate; rather, it broke into other elements which were then eliminated from the body.

Faulty, Corrupted Testing: No one doubted the heavy toxic results of fluoride at the concentration levels in the plants and surrounding areas, but the hope was that the diluted fluoride compound being used to fluoridate drinking water would be okay. The sad part is that the testing experiments were terminated early and water fluoridation was whitewashed. Subsequent testing was SHORT TERM and used a different compound than what was being used, ultimately, in over 90 percent of the fluoridated water systems.

Higher grade sodium fluoride was used in “virtually all the extensive laboratory research on the biological properties and effects of fluoride in water…” instead of testing the silicofluorides coming from the fertilizer industry's contaminated waste products. (1)

Also, for more details, see Fluoridation, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Oops! I almost forgot to reiterate that the testing that was done was done with a different fluoride compound, but even sadder and more disillusioning is the total lack of long-term, chronic-type studies on the fluorosilicic compounds actually used in water fluoridation. The conclusions from short term laboratory tests using pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride have to be disregarded by scientists who are not tainted by research monies provided by industry. Many are those whose careers benefit from water fluoridation.

(1) Masters Ph.D., Roger; Coplan PE, Myron, “Silicofluorides and Fluoridation,” Fluoride Journal, Vol 34, No 3., 161-164, 2001. (12/2003) http://www.fluoride-journal.com/01-34-3/343-161.pdf

For More Information, and to see an excellent documentation of the fluoride timeline: www.fluorideaction.net

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