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The Fluoride Deception

Bryson,

ISBN: 1-58-322526-9

Seven Stories Press

Hardcover $24.95

2004/04

Concerns over fluoridated drinking water have long been derided as the

obsession of McCarthyite cranks. But this muckraking j'accuse asserts that

fluoride

is indeed a dire threat to public health, one foisted upon the nation by a

vast conspiracy-not of Communist agents, but of our very own military-industrial

complex. Investigative reporter Bryson revisits the decades-long controversy,

drawing on mountains of scientific studies, some unearthed from secret

archives of government and corporate laboratories, to question the effects of

fluoride and the motives of its leading advocates. The efficacy of fluoridated

drinking water in preventing tooth decay, he contends, is dubious. Fluoride in

its

many forms may be one of the most toxic of industrial pollutants, and Bryson

cites scientific analyses linking fluoridated drinking water to bone

deformities, hyperactivity and a host of other complaints. The post-war campaign

to

fluoridate drinking water, he claims, was less a public health innovation than a

public relations ploy sponsored by industrial users of fluoride-including the

government's nuclear weapons program. Legendary spin doctors like Bernays

exploited the tenuous link between dental hygiene and fluoridation to create

markets to stimulate fluoride production and to prove the innocuousness of

fluoride compounds, thereby heading off lawsuits by factory workers and others

poisoned by industrial fluoride pollution. Bryson marshals an impressive amount

of research to demonstrate fluoride's harmfulness, the ties between leading

fluoride researchers and the corporations who funded and benefited from their

research, and what he says is the duplicity with which fluoridation was sold to

the people. The result is a compelling challenge to the reigning dental

orthodoxy, which should provoke renewed scientific scrutiny and public

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