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Hello Byron Shire Council, thank you for allowing me to share this critical information with you today. I am a research scientist and global technologist originally from the US, now settled in Australia. I recently re-located from Melbourne to the Byron Shire, just outside of Mullumbimby.
I have learned of recent moves to persuade Councils in New South Wales to introduce fluoridation into the water supplies in this State. I am alarmed by this, as my research has demonstrated that introducing water fluoridation in the form being proposed could cause great health, economic and ecological impacts to the Byron Shire Region - and indeed to the health and well-being of all Australians.
I am here today to provide you with the latest scientific research regarding water fluoridation, in the fervent hope that you will consider this information.
I will be covering 5 things today. Firstly, I will examine the main arguments being used by fluoridation proponents. I will show you that these arguments were flawed and are now out of date.
Secondly, I will examine the issues and impacts caused by fluoridation, including health, environment, and to the economy.
Thirdly, I will briefly explain the history behind the pro-fluoridation movement and reveal why it is no longer cost effective in the modern age.
Fourthly, I will share the pattern of reversing water fluoridation that is spreading across the world, as more and more countries become aware of its overall impacts.
Finally, I will share with you the safe alternatives to water fluoridation, which are being used around the world and we have in abundance right here in Byron Shire.
(1) THE ARGUMENTS FOR FLUORIDATION
It is important to point out that most proponents of fluoridation are well-meaning people wanting to help people stay healthy, yet they are relying on flawed and outdated data that has erroneously been used to make a causal link between water fluoridation and the subsequent reduction in tooth decay and that does not now stack up as credible science.
I will start by examining the traditional arguments for fluoridation.
ARGUMENT 1: Fluoride strengthens teeth and prevents cavities.
First, let’s look at the science. In its elemental form, fluorine is a pale yellow, highly toxic and corrosive gas. Because it is so reactive, fluorine quickly compounds with other elements to form fluorides. Fluorides are toxic to humans, however, the Calcium Fluoride (CaF2) form naturally found in most ground water is considered relatively harmless due to its extreme insolubility.
According to Dr. Bill Osmunson, a full-time dentist with a Masters Degree in Public Health, some studies suggest, when viewed in isolation, that fluoride may offer a minor benefit to your teeth. Further, the dental profession knows this benefit is limited to topical application only - not by ingestion. The form of fluoride used in these studies as added to most toothpaste is Sodium monofluorophosphate. While this form of fluoride is not considered as toxic as the form used in water fluoridation, though when ingested in even very small amounts, the warning label advices you call a poison control center. Dr. Osmunson, along with thousands of other scientists and health professionals, now agree that when you factor in the excessive amounts of fluoride we're ingesting from multiple sources, any small benefit is lost under the weight of fluoride's toxic effects.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/01/20/fluoride-denialism.aspx
Despite widespread public health adoption, water fluoridation has come under close scrutiny over the past quarter century as science overwhelmingly shows water fluoridation has little to no benefit in preventing dental caries. The form of Fluoride being added to drinking water, a form of Sodium fluoride (NaF) over five hundred times more soluble than calcium fluoride (CaF2), IS A CANCER CAUSING NEUROTOXIN and does not - even at the <1ppm levels claimed by the early data as being ‘safe and effective’ - strengthen teeth, curb dental decay known as ‘caries’ or cavities, nor improve human health on any level. It does, in fact the exact opposite as I am about to present.
Further, as the research worldwide demonstrates, dental caries are not improved with fluoride, but rather by proper nutrition and dental hygiene; a major factor being the over consumption of sugar, particularly high fructose corn syrup, which feeds the bacteria that cause dental caries.
Not only is there no proof that fluoridation prevents tooth decay, there is powerful evidence to the contrary. The largest US study ever taken on the matter was conducted in Tucson, Arizona in 1992. 26,000 elementary school students were involved in the study, which produced empirical evidence that the more fluoride a child consumes, the more cavities will appear! The study was conducted by the University of Arizona under the supervision of world-renowned Professor Emeritus Cornelius Steelink.
On top of that, the world's largest study looked at 400,000 students, revealing that tooth decay increased in over 25% with just 1ppm fluoride in drinking water.
It is exceedingly difficult to accurately estimate your total fluoride exposure, and many people are receiving far too much fluoride from drinking water, toothpaste and antibiotic exposures.
Despite the fact you've been told by your governments, and in the US the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the American and Australian Dental Associations (ADA) and others that water fluoridation lowers your risk for tooth decay (I underscore ‘lowers risk for tooth decay’ is NOT the same as lowers tooth decay… that’s their legal back door), scientific studies repeatedly show the opposite to be true—worldwide rates of dental caries are trending downward, irrespective of whether or not water fluoridation is used. Further, the ADA and the CDC recommend that infants NOT receive fluoridated water for drinking, nor for making their formula, as fluoridated water contains 250 times more fluoride than mother’s milk.
Dental fluorosis, also called mottling of tooth enamel, is a developmental disturbance of dental enamel caused by excessive exposure to high concentrations of fluoride during tooth development. The risk of fluoride overexposure occurs at any age but it is higher at younger ages. According to the CDC, nearly 23 percent of children ages 12-15 had fluorosis in a study done in 1986 and 1987. That rose to 41 percent in the more recent study, which covered the years 1999 through 2004. Dr. William Kohn, director of the CDC's division of oral health, said in a recent interview “We're not necessarily surprised to see this slow rise in mild fluorosis”. Children today are suffering an overexposure of fluoride and the rise in fluorosis proves this toxic overdose.
ARGUMENT 2: Fluoride cleanses the water supply.
Think fluoride cleanses the water? The chemical used for water fluoridation is hydrofluorosilicic acid, a waste product of the fertilizer industry. Unlike the pharmaceutical grade of sodium fluoride which is a added to toothpastes, hydrofluorosilicic acid has never been safety tested, and is added to water without being treated or cleaned to remove contaminants, such as lead, arsenic, mercury and traces of radioactive elements. It would be extremely costly for the chemical industry to properly and safely dispose of this toxic waste product, so it suits them very well to be able to sell it, untreated, to your water company, which drip feeds it into your drinking water. It's interesting to note that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies this substance as "Class One Hazardous Waste."
Look at a tube of toothpaste, which clearly carries the warning: “Do not swallow,” and “in case of accidental ingestion, contact the poison control center.” The amount of fluoride they’re talking about is a quarter milligram of fluoride, contained in a pea size amount of toothpaste. But here is the kicker: This is the same amount of fluoride you find in 8 oz of water. Yet toothpaste carries a “Do not swallow” warning, whereas you’re typically told to drink eight 8oz glasses of water each day, without any concern for the amount of fluoride you will ingest. At least swallowing toothpaste is a cleaner form of this poison!
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/07/Warning-Never-Swallow-Regular-Toothpaste.aspx
Ask your state “health experts” where they are getting the chemicals from they are asking you to put in the water. The fluoride used is a hazardous waste by-product from the manufacture of aluminum and fertilizer, and it is a common ingredient in commercial insecticides, roach and rat poisons.
(2) THE DANGERS OF FLUORIDATION
Fluoride is actually a cumulative poison with toxic effects that contribute to multiple health problems, including lowered IQ, fluorosis, bone weakness and fractures, immune and endocrine dysfunction; and what little claimed benefit there may be for your teeth is far overshadowed by the overall documented health risks. Bringing fluoridated water to the boiling point and/or cooking with fluoridated water has been shown to increase its toxicity SEVEN TIMES! Most people have no idea that the fluoride chemicals added to their water have been designated by the (EPA) as a toxic waste product responsible for causing bone fractures, dental fluorosis, and other conditions (http://water.epa.gov). Dr. Ted Norris, who holds a Ph.D. in neuro-endocrinology, says about the consequences of fluoride exposure “All our thyroids are screwed up, Fluoride causes chronic obesity. It causes fatigue. It causes depression. It causes lack of energy, and that's not even to get into the osteosarcomas and the hip replacements. It's devastating. I think it's worse than lead. It's a shame."
If you'd like to learn the true dangers of fluoridation, I suggest that you Google the words “Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity”…
Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity studies from leading clinical laboratories around the world prove again and again the negative impact of fluoride on children’s mental development and IQ. A recently published Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water have "significantly lower" IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas. This report is available from the NIH.GOV website. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=10.1289/ehp.1104912 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/)
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/14/fluoride-effects-in-children.aspx
Research proves that fluoride is an extremely neurotoxic chemical which interrupts basic functions of nerve cells in the brain and can lead to Alzheimer's, atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), infertility, birth defects, diabetes, cancer and lowered IQ - even at low doses. The aluminum "tricks" the blood-brain barrier and allows the chemical access to brain tissue. It is especially damaging to young children whose tissues and cells are growing rapidly.
What is even more disturbing is the harmful effects of fluoride have been known for over half a century by conventional medical organizations. For example, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stated in their Sept. 18, 1943 issue that fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons that change the permeability of the cell membrane by certain enzymes. And, an editorial published in the Journal of the American Dental Association on Oct. 1, 1944, stated: “Drinking water containing as little as 1.2 ppm fluoride will cause developmental disturbances. We cannot run the risk of producing such serious systemic disturbances. The potentialities for harm outweigh those for good.”
For as long as the practice of artificial water fluoridation has been promoted, impartial researchers have warned, and demonstrated by more than 23 human studies and 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage, that even trace amounts of fluoride can cause harm to humans and animals.
The Chinese have now done over eighty experiments that prove fluoride interferes with animal brain functions. 23 studies found an association between lowered IQ in children, and three of their studies found fluoride to damage fetal brain tissue. Only in the late 1990's was their research translated and published in English.
Google: “fluoride, immunosuppression, research”
Google: “fluoride, toothpaste, fluoridated water, immune system suppression, immunosuppression research”
The immune system is our first line of defense against pathogens from outside of us, or cancers from within. There is now ample laboratory evidence that fluoride can affect the efficacy of the cells of the immune system in several ways. In one case before the High Court, Edinburgh, in 1981, research physician Dr. Gibson, M.D. showed that a 6 hour exposure of white cells to just 0.1 ppm fluoride reduced their unrestricted migration rate by 21% (and at 0.5 ppm fluoride reduced it by 74%). In other words, drinking the recommended “safe” level of <1ppm of fluoridated water day after day leaves you without any functional immune defense.
http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/gibson-1992.pdf
In 1987, Dr. Hans Moolenburgh M.D. stated: “I am absolutely convinced that fluoride is an immune suppressive substance.” He came to that conclusion following double-blind clinical tests which showed that there were many adverse reactions resulting from drinking fluoridated water.
http://www.baff.org.au/Cases/Moolenburgh%20affidvit.pdf
One report highlights the proposition that prolonged exposure to fluoride contaminated drinking water is likely to result in immunotoxicity.
http://www.academicjournals.org/ajar/PDF/pdf2013/11Jul/Giri%20et%20al.pdf
Fluoride Link to Cancer
Long-lost research linking fluoride to cancer has resurfaced in a Dutch film clip featuring Dr. Dean Burk, a PhD. who in 1937 co-founded the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and headed its cytochemistry department for more than 30 years. In the taped interview, he equates water fluoridation to "public murder," referring to a study that had been done on the 10 largest U.S. cities with fluoridation compared to the 10 largest without it. The study demonstrated that deaths from cancer abruptly rose in as little as a year or two after fluoridation began. This and other studies linking fluoride to cancer were government-ordered but were quickly buried once fluoride was found to be linked to dramatic increases in cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ClqK7XvfLg0
Harm to wildlife having fluoride in public waters:
All of these toxicological effects outlined, once introduced into the ecosystem, are multiplied many fold in birds and animals given their smaller sizes and additionally sequestered in the tissue of plants. Byron Shire is considered one of the world’s most pristine and biodiverse regions in the world. Introducing fluoride into the water system - 99% of which is wasted, used to water crops thus entering our food supply along with run off into our waterways - will cause an irreversible ecological catastrophe to this fragile region. This is how fluoride becomes an insidious killer, by a cumulative build up as it moves up the food chain.
Potential Economic Impact:
Byron Shire relies on tourism, and most of those who visit here are young, savvy and health-aware to the negative effects of fluoride. When the word is out that Byron is now fluoridated, they may well opt to spend their vacation dollars elsewhere. It will chill the desire to frequent restaurants and order anything from a cuppa tea to meals.
Given the attraction to Byron Shire as a sanctuary supporting a healthy lifestyle choice of highly awake people, many potential investors in residential properties such as myself may choose to not now live in this region and raise our children here as it will have lost its unique appeal of supporting our healthy lifestyle. This will have a negative impact to property values, schools and tax revenues as a consequence.
Further Research
I have included with this report a list of further reading and research that demonstrate these health dangers, and more:
· Watch health professional share the research on the dangers of fluoridation by watching videos here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7YKya_R1ROuq_KUuZO3rZ5W3qpomqZXl&v=6iu9HzaVbWQ
· FIRE WATER: Australia's Industrial Fluoridation Disgrace. (see notes: Some links cited on FAN website have been updated). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfiCP3HYxFg -
· http://cof-cof.ca/2012/09/artificial-water-fluoridation-the-disproportionate-harm-caused-to-aboriginal-black-and-hispanic-communities/
· http://www.nofluoride.com/Toxicity_of_Fluoridated_Water.cfm
· http://www.fluoridealert.org
· http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/health_database/
· http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/osmunson.4-19-11.pdf
· http://www.naturalnews.com/033845_dentists_water_fluoridation.html
· http://www.naturalnews.com/water_fluoridation.html
· http://www.naturalnews.com/fluoride.html
· http://www.naturalnews.com/036084_water_fluoridation_protests_activism.html
· http://www.naturalnews.com/036280_history_water_fluoridation_FDA_approval.html
· http://altnews.com.au/drop/content/fluoridation-greatest-case-scientific-fraud-century
· http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/fluoride_b_2479833.html
· http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=19990817225011
· http://fluorideinformationaustralia.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/report-water-fluoridation-pollution-must-end-diane-drayton-buckland-independent-researcher-14th-january-2013.pdf
· http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=54696.0
· http://fluoridation.com/legal.htm
(3) THE HISTORY OF FLUORIDATION [AND THE HIDDEN AGENDA]
The history of fluoridation is even more damning: The year before water fluoridation began in the United States, the entire dental profession recognized that fluoride was detrimental to dental health. In fact, in 1944 the Journal of the American Dental Association reported that using between 1.6 and 4 ppm (parts per million) fluoride in water would cause 50% of adults to need false teeth. Yet powerful industrial interests, having a problem figuring out how to dispose of their toxic waste got the government to agree to put it in drinking water by fabricating data that it helps prevent tooth decay and hiring the world’s most influential propaganda machine of their day to sell it to the gullible public.
Politics, powerful industry lobbying and money, not science, are what continues to drive the water fluoridation agenda today, and it was always the impetus behind the original passage of corrupt water fluoridation guidelines established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more than 50 years ago. But many EPA scientists, it turns out, as well as other medical and scientific experts, have bravely come out in opposition to water fluoridation over the years, a move that for many cost them their jobs and careers.
Many of those directly responsible for compiling and evaluating safety data on the health effects of fluoride, in fact, observed very early on that the chemical waste product is not at all beneficial for human health. Not only has fluoride never been shown with any sort of scientific rigor to prevent tooth decay in any tangible way, but it has actually been shown to damage teeth, as well as harm vital organs, cognitive ability, glandular function, and bone structure, among other things.
http://www.naturalnews.com/039273_EPA_scientists_water_fluoridation_opposition.html
[The dental associations push fluoride not because it is a preventative measure against tooth decay, but because it is good for business by causing tooth decay.]
(4) THE INTERNATIONAL MOVE AWAY FROM FLUORIDATION
In America and Australia, most think fluoride is used by the rest of the world. NO! France, Germany, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Finland, India, Russia and Great Britain have all rejected its use after special commissions and health secretaries reviewed the negative evidence. All over America in recent years scores of municipalities (250+ at last count) have been reversing water fluoridation in light of the current science. And the rate is rapidly accelerating given the public outcry as more and more people are becoming aware of this fraud.
Israel now joins most of the world in banning water fluoridation. On July 29, 2013, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that Israel must stop adding fluoride into public water supplies in one year, following a decision on fluoride’s potential toxicity to humans by the Israeli health minister.
In total, only a mere 5% of the world’s people - only 3% of Western Europeans - and only 13% of the world’s countries drink fluoridated water.
So why does most of the world – including most rich, developed nations – avoid water fluoridation? It’s not superstition or bad science. An overwhelming number of scientific studies conclude that cavity levels are falling worldwide … even in countries which don’t fluoridate water. Data compiled by the World Health Organization shows tooth decay has declined at a similar rate in all western countries, irrespective of each country's water or salt fluoridation status.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/israel-joins-most-of-the-world-in-banning-water-fluoridation.html
China does not fluoridate their public drinking water - yet they are the PRIMARY fluoride supplier to the US and parts of Australia!
In a petition to the US congress, as of September 24, 2013, over 4,500 professionals have signed a statement being distributed by the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) calling for an end to water fluoridation worldwide. Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the landmark 2006 National Research Council report on fluoride’s toxicology, three officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the Executive Board of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, leading fluoride researchers, and medical, dental, scientific and environmental professionals from around the world. Other prominent dentists that have spoken out against fluoride include Dr. Thomas Connelly from New York City; Dr. Andrew Harms, former president of the Australian Dental Association; Dentist Hardy Limeback, PhD, from the University of Toronto's Department of Preventive Dentistry; Dentist Bill Osmunson from the Fluoride Action Network (FAN); and Dentist David Kennedy from the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT), just to name a few. A professional group of more than a thousand environmental, medical and dental professionals across Australia have petitioned your state governments to stop water fluoridation, only to be largely ignored.
· http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/professionals-statement/
· http://www.naturalnews.com/033845_dentists_water_fluoridation.html
· http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2477/t/2782/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21960
· http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prominent-dentists-say-drinking-nycs-fluoridated-water-is-risky-131137168.html
· http://ccpurewater.org/Professionals%20Against%20Water%20Fluoridation.html
· http://australianfluorideaction.com/
(5) SAFE ALTERNATIVES TO FLUORIDE
So what are the alternatives? You have one right here in the Byron Shire - Tea tree oil. You can more effectively kill caries bacteria by brushing with Tea Tree oil, toothpastes with Tea Tree oil, or colloidal silver - ALL of which will BOOST your immune system, positively affect your health and do not lower your children’s IQ. And there are many, many other ‘safe’ alternatives besides these. The core cause of dental caries is poor diet and poor dental hygiene, addressing the cause is our first priority.
(6) CONCLUSION
The science behind the global movement to eliminate water fluoridation as a menace to public health is CURRENT, CREDIBLE, THOROUGH, and OVERWHELMING.
Choice:
In several countries, as a result of court cases or rulings by health officials, fluoride is now considered a medication or a drug, either requiring consent before being administered. By introducing fluoridation to the water in Byron Shire you would be forcing mass medication at best, and possibly even mass murder on an uninformed population you have been elected to protect - especially the children of the Shire. You must provide the citizens of the Shire the opportunity to learn the facts pro and con, and let them voice their concerns and vote to decide if they wish to have water fluoridation instituted.
Budgets:
I imagine there must be a sizeable budget amount being allocated for fluoridating Byron Shire. I have done some very informal surveys and very rough calculations, and the upshot of it is this: Given the very few people who actually want toxic fluoride in their water and the enormous cost of building and maintaining a fluoridation system and annual costs for the plant’s highly toxic chemicals; and because it is a drug legally needing consent to administer; for those who actually want to have supplemental fluoride for their families; the residents of Byron Shire would instead be better served by Council issuing vouchers to be redeemed at Shire chemists and retailers for topical applications of a pharmaceutical grade of Sodium monofluorophosphate. And then use the rest of the money to repave the Shire’s roads. This way everyone wins. We each retain our free choice, you save money, the ecosystem is spared, the roads get fixed, and the council comes away as heroes.
So in summary: water fluoridation is a highly emotionally charged issue because nobody wants to believe those who they trusted as ‘authorities’ were wrong, even if those beliefs are killing them. The authorities who will come and speak to you will repeat the same hypnotic mantra, just as did MICHAEL FOLEY, DIRECTOR, BRISBANE DENTAL HOSPITAL on ABC when he stated that “There are no reputable health authorities anywhere in the world that oppose water fluoridation. Further, health groups around the world and the science groups around the world are strongly on the side of fluoridation.”
Actually, nothing could be further from the truth as I’ve just shown you. Many health authorities all over the world have come out against fluoridation, many only to be blacklisted for having taken on the moneyed interests. And if you really look at the facts and not just drink the ‘official’ Kool-Aid, you will quickly learn that universities and government agencies all over the world have warned of the dangers of fluoridation. All of the links I have provided in this report source top medical professionals and scientists.
I noted on the Queensland Government website: “Clearly fluoride is good for you. For over 50 years fluoridated water has proven to be a safe and effective way to reduce tooth decay in towns and cities in Australia and overseas. It's good for your teeth and for the health of Queenslanders.” What a load of BS. This is all just hearsay, superstition and spin. There’s no scientifically-valid evidence proving either safety or effectiveness. Nothing has been proven, this is all a myth. Do the research.
Denial is a strong human trait that will keep you from accepting that those ‘authorities’ in whom you put your trust have given out false and misleading information by putting profits and special interest politics first - even before their own children and future generations. This is what is truly meant by the notion of worshiping at the feet of the golden calf and we know how that story turned out.
Current clinical data and science have conclusively proven that water fluoridation is not safe for human health even at low doses, nor effective at preventing dental caries. Because of fluorides cumulative effect in the body’s organs, bones and tissues, water fluoridation yields all of the negative effects I’ve cited above and many, many more. On top of that, because the dose can’t be controlled, you are exposing the Byron Shire to unnecessary health impacts against our informed consent and I suggest you risk legal exposure for damages unless the residents you are putting under this unethical mass medication are duly informed and are given the choice whether they want it or not.
So why do we keep hearing the drone of “safe and effective” by governments that have for years now been fluoridating the water and the health officials who work for them? Simply, they are backed in a corner legally. To admit they were wrong now in the face of all this new science coming out worldwide and the potential negative health impact they have caused to millions of the citizens under their care would see them sued out of existence or at minimum wholly dismissed by their constituents as health frauds. Insiders admit fear of losing corporate sponsors. They are putting money before the health of people.
So it is left up to you Councilors. You have an ethical and moral duty to the future health and IQ’s of our children, not to mention the harm to the environment and to your and my health and safety to NOT fluoridate our water.
I insist the Byron Council to demand three things from those ‘authorities’ who are insisting you put fluoride in the water:
1. Provide current, clinically proven, documented research that hydrofluorosilicic acid is, A. good for our health and, B. directly reduces dental caries - not just the admonition ‘the risk of tooth decay’.
2. Ask them where the source of the hydrofluorosilicic acid is coming from - the actual manufacturers and what quality controls are in place and who profits.
3. How they can guarantee the total dosages of fluoride children receive can be controlled below the <1ppm levels their erroneous “flat earth” science claims to be “safe and effective”?
I request each of you watch the videos at the links I gave above and simply click through the links and read the research literature I have supplied. It will shock you.
Just as we all have said no to the recent CSG assault on our water and health, it is time again for those of us who live in the Byron Shire and surrounds to COME TOGETHER and voice our demands that our waters be left pure and our region’s fragile ecology be once again preserved by shouting collectively a resounding NO to water fluoridation in the Byron Shire - and for the future of this country - ALL Australians.
Thank you.
END NOTES:
1. It has been proven in U.S. federal court that fluoridation of our water supply by fluoride is a cancer causative agent… US Court of Appeals, Ninth District, Nos.14990-14992 (1952)
2. In 1971, Dr. Burke began a study of the effects of fluoride in drinking water in the United States and in 1981 he said, "We estimate that since fluoridation was introduced into the U.S. there have been almost as many deaths associated with fluoridation as the sum total of all American military deaths since 1776 and that one-tenth of the 350,000 cancer deaths per year in the U.S. are linked with artificial public water fluoridation.”
3. Hydrofluorosilic acid and Sodium Fluoride, when subjected to industry standard ICP-MS instrumentation are found to have the same molecular structure of the basic ingredient in the military nerve gas ‘Sarin’ - the most lethal chemical weapon known to man. Yes Sarin… the very same one you have been hearing about in the news that was used recently in Syria and that the world is asking Syria to dispose of, and yet here in Byron Shire and elsewhere in Australia, the ‘officials’ want you to vote to put it in our drinking water.
http://www.naturalnews.com/041883_syria_chemical_weapons_sodium_fluoride.html
4. Fluoride accumulates in and calcifies the “pineal gland” as one ages. This fact has been proven by cadaver autopsies of fluoridated water drinkers. The pineal, regarded by many traditions and enlightened mystics as the “Seat of the Soul” and our gateway into the higher dimensional realms is compromised by fluoridation, thus cutting one off from the ability to reach these higher states.
Hello Byron Shire Council, thank you for allowing me to share this critical information with you today. I am a research scientist and global technologist originally from the US, now settled in Australia. I recently re-located from Melbourne to the Byron Shire, just outside of Mullumbimby.
I have learned of recent moves to persuade Councils in New South Wales to introduce fluoridation into the water supplies in this State. I am alarmed by this, as my research has demonstrated that introducing water fluoridation in the form being proposed could cause great health, economic and ecological impacts to the Byron Shire Region - and indeed to the health and well-being of all Australians.
I am here today to provide you with the latest scientific research regarding water fluoridation, in the fervent hope that you will consider this information.
I will be covering 5 things today. Firstly, I will examine the main arguments being used by fluoridation proponents. I will show you that these arguments were flawed and are now out of date.
Secondly, I will examine the issues and impacts caused by fluoridation, including health, environment, and to the economy.
Thirdly, I will briefly explain the history behind the pro-fluoridation movement and reveal why it is no longer cost effective in the modern age.
Fourthly, I will share the pattern of reversing water fluoridation that is spreading across the world, as more and more countries become aware of its overall impacts.
Finally, I will share with you the safe alternatives to water fluoridation, which are being used around the world and we have in abundance right here in Byron Shire.
(1) THE ARGUMENTS FOR FLUORIDATION
It is important to point out that most proponents of fluoridation are well-meaning people wanting to help people stay healthy, yet they are relying on flawed and outdated data that has erroneously been used to make a causal link between water fluoridation and the subsequent reduction in tooth decay and that does not now stack up as credible science.
I will start by examining the traditional arguments for fluoridation.
ARGUMENT 1: Fluoride strengthens teeth and prevents cavities.
First, let’s look at the science. In its elemental form, fluorine is a pale yellow, highly toxic and corrosive gas. Because it is so reactive, fluorine quickly compounds with other elements to form fluorides. Fluorides are toxic to humans, however, the Calcium Fluoride (CaF2) form naturally found in most ground water is considered relatively harmless due to its extreme insolubility.
According to Dr. Bill Osmunson, a full-time dentist with a Masters Degree in Public Health, some studies suggest, when viewed in isolation, that fluoride may offer a minor benefit to your teeth. Further, the dental profession knows this benefit is limited to topical application only - not by ingestion. The form of fluoride used in these studies as added to most toothpaste is Sodium monofluorophosphate. While this form of fluoride is not considered as toxic as the form used in water fluoridation, though when ingested in even very small amounts, the warning label advices you call a poison control center. Dr. Osmunson, along with thousands of other scientists and health professionals, now agree that when you factor in the excessive amounts of fluoride we're ingesting from multiple sources, any small benefit is lost under the weight of fluoride's toxic effects.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/01/20/fluoride-denialism.aspx
Despite widespread public health adoption, water fluoridation has come under close scrutiny over the past quarter century as science overwhelmingly shows water fluoridation has little to no benefit in preventing dental caries. The form of Fluoride being added to drinking water, a form of Sodium fluoride (NaF) over five hundred times more soluble than calcium fluoride (CaF2), IS A CANCER CAUSING NEUROTOXIN and does not - even at the <1ppm levels claimed by the early data as being ‘safe and effective’ - strengthen teeth, curb dental decay known as ‘caries’ or cavities, nor improve human health on any level. It does, in fact the exact opposite as I am about to present.
Further, as the research worldwide demonstrates, dental caries are not improved with fluoride, but rather by proper nutrition and dental hygiene; a major factor being the over consumption of sugar, particularly high fructose corn syrup, which feeds the bacteria that cause dental caries.
Not only is there no proof that fluoridation prevents tooth decay, there is powerful evidence to the contrary. The largest US study ever taken on the matter was conducted in Tucson, Arizona in 1992. 26,000 elementary school students were involved in the study, which produced empirical evidence that the more fluoride a child consumes, the more cavities will appear! The study was conducted by the University of Arizona under the supervision of world-renowned Professor Emeritus Cornelius Steelink.
On top of that, the world's largest study looked at 400,000 students, revealing that tooth decay increased in over 25% with just 1ppm fluoride in drinking water.
It is exceedingly difficult to accurately estimate your total fluoride exposure, and many people are receiving far too much fluoride from drinking water, toothpaste and antibiotic exposures.
Despite the fact you've been told by your governments, and in the US the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the American and Australian Dental Associations (ADA) and others that water fluoridation lowers your risk for tooth decay (I underscore ‘lowers risk for tooth decay’ is NOT the same as lowers tooth decay… that’s their legal back door), scientific studies repeatedly show the opposite to be true—worldwide rates of dental caries are trending downward, irrespective of whether or not water fluoridation is used. Further, the ADA and the CDC recommend that infants NOT receive fluoridated water for drinking, nor for making their formula, as fluoridated water contains 250 times more fluoride than mother’s milk.
Dental fluorosis, also called mottling of tooth enamel, is a developmental disturbance of dental enamel caused by excessive exposure to high concentrations of fluoride during tooth development. The risk of fluoride overexposure occurs at any age but it is higher at younger ages. According to the CDC, nearly 23 percent of children ages 12-15 had fluorosis in a study done in 1986 and 1987. That rose to 41 percent in the more recent study, which covered the years 1999 through 2004. Dr. William Kohn, director of the CDC's division of oral health, said in a recent interview “We're not necessarily surprised to see this slow rise in mild fluorosis”. Children today are suffering an overexposure of fluoride and the rise in fluorosis proves this toxic overdose.
ARGUMENT 2: Fluoride cleanses the water supply.
Think fluoride cleanses the water? The chemical used for water fluoridation is hydrofluorosilicic acid, a waste product of the fertilizer industry. Unlike the pharmaceutical grade of sodium fluoride which is a added to toothpastes, hydrofluorosilicic acid has never been safety tested, and is added to water without being treated or cleaned to remove contaminants, such as lead, arsenic, mercury and traces of radioactive elements. It would be extremely costly for the chemical industry to properly and safely dispose of this toxic waste product, so it suits them very well to be able to sell it, untreated, to your water company, which drip feeds it into your drinking water. It's interesting to note that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies this substance as "Class One Hazardous Waste."
Look at a tube of toothpaste, which clearly carries the warning: “Do not swallow,” and “in case of accidental ingestion, contact the poison control center.” The amount of fluoride they’re talking about is a quarter milligram of fluoride, contained in a pea size amount of toothpaste. But here is the kicker: This is the same amount of fluoride you find in 8 oz of water. Yet toothpaste carries a “Do not swallow” warning, whereas you’re typically told to drink eight 8oz glasses of water each day, without any concern for the amount of fluoride you will ingest. At least swallowing toothpaste is a cleaner form of this poison!
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/07/Warning-Never-Swallow-Regular-Toothpaste.aspx
Ask your state “health experts” where they are getting the chemicals from they are asking you to put in the water. The fluoride used is a hazardous waste by-product from the manufacture of aluminum and fertilizer, and it is a common ingredient in commercial insecticides, roach and rat poisons.
(2) THE DANGERS OF FLUORIDATION
Fluoride is actually a cumulative poison with toxic effects that contribute to multiple health problems, including lowered IQ, fluorosis, bone weakness and fractures, immune and endocrine dysfunction; and what little claimed benefit there may be for your teeth is far overshadowed by the overall documented health risks. Bringing fluoridated water to the boiling point and/or cooking with fluoridated water has been shown to increase its toxicity SEVEN TIMES! Most people have no idea that the fluoride chemicals added to their water have been designated by the (EPA) as a toxic waste product responsible for causing bone fractures, dental fluorosis, and other conditions (http://water.epa.gov). Dr. Ted Norris, who holds a Ph.D. in neuro-endocrinology, says about the consequences of fluoride exposure “All our thyroids are screwed up, Fluoride causes chronic obesity. It causes fatigue. It causes depression. It causes lack of energy, and that's not even to get into the osteosarcomas and the hip replacements. It's devastating. I think it's worse than lead. It's a shame."
If you'd like to learn the true dangers of fluoridation, I suggest that you Google the words “Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity”…
Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity studies from leading clinical laboratories around the world prove again and again the negative impact of fluoride on children’s mental development and IQ. A recently published Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water have "significantly lower" IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas. This report is available from the NIH.GOV website. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=10.1289/ehp.1104912 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/)
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/14/fluoride-effects-in-children.aspx
Research proves that fluoride is an extremely neurotoxic chemical which interrupts basic functions of nerve cells in the brain and can lead to Alzheimer's, atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), infertility, birth defects, diabetes, cancer and lowered IQ - even at low doses. The aluminum "tricks" the blood-brain barrier and allows the chemical access to brain tissue. It is especially damaging to young children whose tissues and cells are growing rapidly.
What is even more disturbing is the harmful effects of fluoride have been known for over half a century by conventional medical organizations. For example, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stated in their Sept. 18, 1943 issue that fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons that change the permeability of the cell membrane by certain enzymes. And, an editorial published in the Journal of the American Dental Association on Oct. 1, 1944, stated: “Drinking water containing as little as 1.2 ppm fluoride will cause developmental disturbances. We cannot run the risk of producing such serious systemic disturbances. The potentialities for harm outweigh those for good.”
For as long as the practice of artificial water fluoridation has been promoted, impartial researchers have warned, and demonstrated by more than 23 human studies and 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage, that even trace amounts of fluoride can cause harm to humans and animals.
The Chinese have now done over eighty experiments that prove fluoride interferes with animal brain functions. 23 studies found an association between lowered IQ in children, and three of their studies found fluoride to damage fetal brain tissue. Only in the late 1990's was their research translated and published in English.
Google: “fluoride, immunosuppression, research”
Google: “fluoride, toothpaste, fluoridated water, immune system suppression, immunosuppression research”
The immune system is our first line of defense against pathogens from outside of us, or cancers from within. There is now ample laboratory evidence that fluoride can affect the efficacy of the cells of the immune system in several ways. In one case before the High Court, Edinburgh, in 1981, research physician Dr. Gibson, M.D. showed that a 6 hour exposure of white cells to just 0.1 ppm fluoride reduced their unrestricted migration rate by 21% (and at 0.5 ppm fluoride reduced it by 74%). In other words, drinking the recommended “safe” level of <1ppm of fluoridated water day after day leaves you without any functional immune defense.
http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/gibson-1992.pdf
In 1987, Dr. Hans Moolenburgh M.D. stated: “I am absolutely convinced that fluoride is an immune suppressive substance.” He came to that conclusion following double-blind clinical tests which showed that there were many adverse reactions resulting from drinking fluoridated water.
http://www.baff.org.au/Cases/Moolenburgh%20affidvit.pdf
One report highlights the proposition that prolonged exposure to fluoride contaminated drinking water is likely to result in immunotoxicity.
http://www.academicjournals.org/ajar/PDF/pdf2013/11Jul/Giri%20et%20al.pdf
Fluoride Link to Cancer
Long-lost research linking fluoride to cancer has resurfaced in a Dutch film clip featuring Dr. Dean Burk, a PhD. who in 1937 co-founded the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) and headed its cytochemistry department for more than 30 years. In the taped interview, he equates water fluoridation to "public murder," referring to a study that had been done on the 10 largest U.S. cities with fluoridation compared to the 10 largest without it. The study demonstrated that deaths from cancer abruptly rose in as little as a year or two after fluoridation began. This and other studies linking fluoride to cancer were government-ordered but were quickly buried once fluoride was found to be linked to dramatic increases in cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ClqK7XvfLg0
Harm to wildlife having fluoride in public waters:
All of these toxicological effects outlined, once introduced into the ecosystem, are multiplied many fold in birds and animals given their smaller sizes and additionally sequestered in the tissue of plants. Byron Shire is considered one of the world’s most pristine and biodiverse regions in the world. Introducing fluoride into the water system - 99% of which is wasted, used to water crops thus entering our food supply along with run off into our waterways - will cause an irreversible ecological catastrophe to this fragile region. This is how fluoride becomes an insidious killer, by a cumulative build up as it moves up the food chain.
Potential Economic Impact:
Byron Shire relies on tourism, and most of those who visit here are young, savvy and health-aware to the negative effects of fluoride. When the word is out that Byron is now fluoridated, they may well opt to spend their vacation dollars elsewhere. It will chill the desire to frequent restaurants and order anything from a cuppa tea to meals.
Given the attraction to Byron Shire as a sanctuary supporting a healthy lifestyle choice of highly awake people, many potential investors in residential properties such as myself may choose to not now live in this region and raise our children here as it will have lost its unique appeal of supporting our healthy lifestyle. This will have a negative impact to property values, schools and tax revenues as a consequence.
Further Research
I have included with this report a list of further reading and research that demonstrate these health dangers, and more:
· Watch health professional share the research on the dangers of fluoridation by watching videos here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7YKya_R1ROuq_KUuZO3rZ5W3qpomqZXl&v=6iu9HzaVbWQ
· FIRE WATER: Australia's Industrial Fluoridation Disgrace. (see notes: Some links cited on FAN website have been updated). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfiCP3HYxFg -
· http://cof-cof.ca/2012/09/artificial-water-fluoridation-the-disproportionate-harm-caused-to-aboriginal-black-and-hispanic-communities/
· http://www.nofluoride.com/Toxicity_of_Fluoridated_Water.cfm
· http://www.fluoridealert.org
· http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/health_database/
· http://www.fluoridealert.org/uploads/osmunson.4-19-11.pdf
· http://www.naturalnews.com/033845_dentists_water_fluoridation.html
· http://www.naturalnews.com/water_fluoridation.html
· http://www.naturalnews.com/fluoride.html
· http://www.naturalnews.com/036084_water_fluoridation_protests_activism.html
· http://www.naturalnews.com/036280_history_water_fluoridation_FDA_approval.html
· http://altnews.com.au/drop/content/fluoridation-greatest-case-scientific-fraud-century
· http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/fluoride_b_2479833.html
· http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=19990817225011
· http://fluorideinformationaustralia.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/report-water-fluoridation-pollution-must-end-diane-drayton-buckland-independent-researcher-14th-january-2013.pdf
· http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=54696.0
· http://fluoridation.com/legal.htm
(3) THE HISTORY OF FLUORIDATION [AND THE HIDDEN AGENDA]
The history of fluoridation is even more damning: The year before water fluoridation began in the United States, the entire dental profession recognized that fluoride was detrimental to dental health. In fact, in 1944 the Journal of the American Dental Association reported that using between 1.6 and 4 ppm (parts per million) fluoride in water would cause 50% of adults to need false teeth. Yet powerful industrial interests, having a problem figuring out how to dispose of their toxic waste got the government to agree to put it in drinking water by fabricating data that it helps prevent tooth decay and hiring the world’s most influential propaganda machine of their day to sell it to the gullible public.
Politics, powerful industry lobbying and money, not science, are what continues to drive the water fluoridation agenda today, and it was always the impetus behind the original passage of corrupt water fluoridation guidelines established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more than 50 years ago. But many EPA scientists, it turns out, as well as other medical and scientific experts, have bravely come out in opposition to water fluoridation over the years, a move that for many cost them their jobs and careers.
Many of those directly responsible for compiling and evaluating safety data on the health effects of fluoride, in fact, observed very early on that the chemical waste product is not at all beneficial for human health. Not only has fluoride never been shown with any sort of scientific rigor to prevent tooth decay in any tangible way, but it has actually been shown to damage teeth, as well as harm vital organs, cognitive ability, glandular function, and bone structure, among other things.
http://www.naturalnews.com/039273_EPA_scientists_water_fluoridation_opposition.html
[The dental associations push fluoride not because it is a preventative measure against tooth decay, but because it is good for business by causing tooth decay.]
(4) THE INTERNATIONAL MOVE AWAY FROM FLUORIDATION
In America and Australia, most think fluoride is used by the rest of the world. NO! France, Germany, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Finland, India, Russia and Great Britain have all rejected its use after special commissions and health secretaries reviewed the negative evidence. All over America in recent years scores of municipalities (250+ at last count) have been reversing water fluoridation in light of the current science. And the rate is rapidly accelerating given the public outcry as more and more people are becoming aware of this fraud.
Israel now joins most of the world in banning water fluoridation. On July 29, 2013, the Supreme Court of Israel ruled that Israel must stop adding fluoride into public water supplies in one year, following a decision on fluoride’s potential toxicity to humans by the Israeli health minister.
In total, only a mere 5% of the world’s people - only 3% of Western Europeans - and only 13% of the world’s countries drink fluoridated water.
So why does most of the world – including most rich, developed nations – avoid water fluoridation? It’s not superstition or bad science. An overwhelming number of scientific studies conclude that cavity levels are falling worldwide … even in countries which don’t fluoridate water. Data compiled by the World Health Organization shows tooth decay has declined at a similar rate in all western countries, irrespective of each country's water or salt fluoridation status.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/israel-joins-most-of-the-world-in-banning-water-fluoridation.html
China does not fluoridate their public drinking water - yet they are the PRIMARY fluoride supplier to the US and parts of Australia!
In a petition to the US congress, as of September 24, 2013, over 4,500 professionals have signed a statement being distributed by the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) calling for an end to water fluoridation worldwide. Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the landmark 2006 National Research Council report on fluoride’s toxicology, three officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the Executive Board of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, leading fluoride researchers, and medical, dental, scientific and environmental professionals from around the world. Other prominent dentists that have spoken out against fluoride include Dr. Thomas Connelly from New York City; Dr. Andrew Harms, former president of the Australian Dental Association; Dentist Hardy Limeback, PhD, from the University of Toronto's Department of Preventive Dentistry; Dentist Bill Osmunson from the Fluoride Action Network (FAN); and Dentist David Kennedy from the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT), just to name a few. A professional group of more than a thousand environmental, medical and dental professionals across Australia have petitioned your state governments to stop water fluoridation, only to be largely ignored.
· http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/professionals-statement/
· http://www.naturalnews.com/033845_dentists_water_fluoridation.html
· http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2477/t/2782/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21960
· http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/prominent-dentists-say-drinking-nycs-fluoridated-water-is-risky-131137168.html
· http://ccpurewater.org/Professionals%20Against%20Water%20Fluoridation.html
· http://australianfluorideaction.com/
(5) SAFE ALTERNATIVES TO FLUORIDE
So what are the alternatives? You have one right here in the Byron Shire - Tea tree oil. You can more effectively kill caries bacteria by brushing with Tea Tree oil, toothpastes with Tea Tree oil, or colloidal silver - ALL of which will BOOST your immune system, positively affect your health and do not lower your children’s IQ. And there are many, many other ‘safe’ alternatives besides these. The core cause of dental caries is poor diet and poor dental hygiene, addressing the cause is our first priority.
(6) CONCLUSION
The science behind the global movement to eliminate water fluoridation as a menace to public health is CURRENT, CREDIBLE, THOROUGH, and OVERWHELMING.
Choice:
In several countries, as a result of court cases or rulings by health officials, fluoride is now considered a medication or a drug, either requiring consent before being administered. By introducing fluoridation to the water in Byron Shire you would be forcing mass medication at best, and possibly even mass murder on an uninformed population you have been elected to protect - especially the children of the Shire. You must provide the citizens of the Shire the opportunity to learn the facts pro and con, and let them voice their concerns and vote to decide if they wish to have water fluoridation instituted.
Budgets:
I imagine there must be a sizeable budget amount being allocated for fluoridating Byron Shire. I have done some very informal surveys and very rough calculations, and the upshot of it is this: Given the very few people who actually want toxic fluoride in their water and the enormous cost of building and maintaining a fluoridation system and annual costs for the plant’s highly toxic chemicals; and because it is a drug legally needing consent to administer; for those who actually want to have supplemental fluoride for their families; the residents of Byron Shire would instead be better served by Council issuing vouchers to be redeemed at Shire chemists and retailers for topical applications of a pharmaceutical grade of Sodium monofluorophosphate. And then use the rest of the money to repave the Shire’s roads. This way everyone wins. We each retain our free choice, you save money, the ecosystem is spared, the roads get fixed, and the council comes away as heroes.
So in summary: water fluoridation is a highly emotionally charged issue because nobody wants to believe those who they trusted as ‘authorities’ were wrong, even if those beliefs are killing them. The authorities who will come and speak to you will repeat the same hypnotic mantra, just as did MICHAEL FOLEY, DIRECTOR, BRISBANE DENTAL HOSPITAL on ABC when he stated that “There are no reputable health authorities anywhere in the world that oppose water fluoridation. Further, health groups around the world and the science groups around the world are strongly on the side of fluoridation.”
Actually, nothing could be further from the truth as I’ve just shown you. Many health authorities all over the world have come out against fluoridation, many only to be blacklisted for having taken on the moneyed interests. And if you really look at the facts and not just drink the ‘official’ Kool-Aid, you will quickly learn that universities and government agencies all over the world have warned of the dangers of fluoridation. All of the links I have provided in this report source top medical professionals and scientists.
I noted on the Queensland Government website: “Clearly fluoride is good for you. For over 50 years fluoridated water has proven to be a safe and effective way to reduce tooth decay in towns and cities in Australia and overseas. It's good for your teeth and for the health of Queenslanders.” What a load of BS. This is all just hearsay, superstition and spin. There’s no scientifically-valid evidence proving either safety or effectiveness. Nothing has been proven, this is all a myth. Do the research.
Denial is a strong human trait that will keep you from accepting that those ‘authorities’ in whom you put your trust have given out false and misleading information by putting profits and special interest politics first - even before their own children and future generations. This is what is truly meant by the notion of worshiping at the feet of the golden calf and we know how that story turned out.
Current clinical data and science have conclusively proven that water fluoridation is not safe for human health even at low doses, nor effective at preventing dental caries. Because of fluorides cumulative effect in the body’s organs, bones and tissues, water fluoridation yields all of the negative effects I’ve cited above and many, many more. On top of that, because the dose can’t be controlled, you are exposing the Byron Shire to unnecessary health impacts against our informed consent and I suggest you risk legal exposure for damages unless the residents you are putting under this unethical mass medication are duly informed and are given the choice whether they want it or not.
So why do we keep hearing the drone of “safe and effective” by governments that have for years now been fluoridating the water and the health officials who work for them? Simply, they are backed in a corner legally. To admit they were wrong now in the face of all this new science coming out worldwide and the potential negative health impact they have caused to millions of the citizens under their care would see them sued out of existence or at minimum wholly dismissed by their constituents as health frauds. Insiders admit fear of losing corporate sponsors. They are putting money before the health of people.
So it is left up to you Councilors. You have an ethical and moral duty to the future health and IQ’s of our children, not to mention the harm to the environment and to your and my health and safety to NOT fluoridate our water.
I insist the Byron Council to demand three things from those ‘authorities’ who are insisting you put fluoride in the water:
1. Provide current, clinically proven, documented research that hydrofluorosilicic acid is, A. good for our health and, B. directly reduces dental caries - not just the admonition ‘the risk of tooth decay’.
2. Ask them where the source of the hydrofluorosilicic acid is coming from - the actual manufacturers and what quality controls are in place and who profits.
3. How they can guarantee the total dosages of fluoride children receive can be controlled below the <1ppm levels their erroneous “flat earth” science claims to be “safe and effective”?
I request each of you watch the videos at the links I gave above and simply click through the links and read the research literature I have supplied. It will shock you.
Just as we all have said no to the recent CSG assault on our water and health, it is time again for those of us who live in the Byron Shire and surrounds to COME TOGETHER and voice our demands that our waters be left pure and our region’s fragile ecology be once again preserved by shouting collectively a resounding NO to water fluoridation in the Byron Shire - and for the future of this country - ALL Australians.
Thank you.
END NOTES:
1. It has been proven in U.S. federal court that fluoridation of our water supply by fluoride is a cancer causative agent… US Court of Appeals, Ninth District, Nos.14990-14992 (1952)
2. In 1971, Dr. Burke began a study of the effects of fluoride in drinking water in the United States and in 1981 he said, "We estimate that since fluoridation was introduced into the U.S. there have been almost as many deaths associated with fluoridation as the sum total of all American military deaths since 1776 and that one-tenth of the 350,000 cancer deaths per year in the U.S. are linked with artificial public water fluoridation.”
3. Hydrofluorosilic acid and Sodium Fluoride, when subjected to industry standard ICP-MS instrumentation are found to have the same molecular structure of the basic ingredient in the military nerve gas ‘Sarin’ - the most lethal chemical weapon known to man. Yes Sarin… the very same one you have been hearing about in the news that was used recently in Syria and that the world is asking Syria to dispose of, and yet here in Byron Shire and elsewhere in Australia, the ‘officials’ want you to vote to put it in our drinking water.
http://www.naturalnews.com/041883_syria_chemical_weapons_sodium_fluoride.html
4. Fluoride accumulates in and calcifies the “pineal gland” as one ages. This fact has been proven by cadaver autopsies of fluoridated water drinkers. The pineal, regarded by many traditions and enlightened mystics as the “Seat of the Soul” and our gateway into the higher dimensional realms is compromised by fluoridation, thus cutting one off from the ability to reach these higher states.