-Caveat Lector- from: http://enteract.com/~mgfree/Medical/Fluorine/FluorineHalogen.html <A HREF="http://enteract.com/~mgfree/Medical/Fluorine/FluorineHalogen.html">The UKOPRP: Chem_sen, FLUORIDE II: "WE ALL LIVE </A> --[2]-- DELIBERATE LONG-TERM FLUORIDE OVERDOSE OF ALASKAN SCHOOL CHILDREN: Keeping Dr. Taylor's findings and his above heartfelt plea in mind, how can the following be justified by any sane scientist: According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services publication "FLUORIDATION CENSUS 1985", which lists the current fluoridation levels of every fluoridated area in the United States, for the entire year of 1985 the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) deliberately over-fluoridated four Alaskan village schools at the rate of FIVE PARTS PER MILLION, instead of at the currently approved rate of 1 PPM. The schools were Unalaska, St. Michael, Shishmaref, and Stebbins. Why were these unsuspecting people being thus experimented upon? How can five parts-per-million (a whopping 20 milligrams per gallon of water) be justified? Whatever the excuse, such covert slow genocide should be actionable in a court of law. That was just the 1985 record; previous years haven't yet been checked. (A subjective first-hand eyewitness observation, by this author, of the people living in Stebbins and St. Michael in 1995 gave a definite impression of a tragic spiritual wasteland; something seemed very out-of-place with those people, almost like looking into the haunted faces of prisoners in German death camps in World War II. Go see for yourself.) The EPA lists fluoride as a "contaminant." The above intentional long-term 5 PPM overdose of innocent native schoolchildren occurred when the EPA's "Maximum Contaminant Level" (MCL) allowable for fluoride was just 2.4 parts per million. In the early 1990's there was talk of having the EPA reduce the MCL of fluoride down to .4 PPM, due to recent studies that had connected fluoride with cancer. A challenge: Have some autonomous toxicologists with no special-interest axe to grind, do an honest, unbiased and thorough long-term scientific study of the residents of the above Alaskan towns. Also include a study of the residents of Hooper Bay, Alaska, where in May of 1992 a fluoride overdose severely poisoned 290 residents and killed Dominic Smith. (Since thirst is one of the fluoride overdose symptoms, Dominic just kept drinking water until he poisoned himself.) Study what has happened to the above people since fluoride became part of their lives and include their physical, dental and mental histories as part of the study. Dental health is, after all, why this entire situation began. If fluoridation was doing its job as advertised, then the dental health of Alaskan natives would be quite acceptable, but that's just the opposite of the way it really is. Note this 12/17/90 article in the Ketchikan Daily News: "NORTH SLOPE DENTAL HEALTH CALLED WORST IN U.S. Examiners reported finding active cavities among Native children aged 3 through 5 at three times the national average. Nearly three-fourths of the 62 native elders aged 65 or older had no teeth at all, the dental examiners said. ... The study population represented 38 percent of the total number of Alaskan Natives in the North Slope Borough." Examiners said 40 percent of elementary students had cavities, and 70 percent had cavities by the time they reached high school. In spite of the above poor record, in 1991 the Director of the Alaska Health and Social Services publicly stated, ". . . fluoride has substantially improved the dental health of Alaska Native Children." What's wrong with this picture? It's well-known that Alaskan natives today have almost the worst dental health in the country, in spite of having been subjected to fluoridated water for 40 years. (Incidentally, they practically live on candy bars and soda pop.) --Which leads us to ask, just exactly what causes dental cavities? On the average, each American consumes 20-50 teaspoons of refined sugar each day. Using 40 teaspoons as an average, multiplying 40 teaspoons times approx. 250,000,000 people totals 10 billion teaspoons of sugar sold EACH DAY, just in the United States alone. That's very big business. ADA AND U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ASSERTION: "GOD IS STUPID" Vested interests who sell fluoride and pharmaceuticals, or who repair the damage, would have you believe that God screwed up so badly in engineering man's teeth that ALL of mankind is now born with a permanent deficiency of fluoride, and thus mass medication--with a nerve agent--is the most cost effective way to correct God's stupid error. However, the facts state differently. Regarding dental cavities, refined sugar and soda pop are two of the top contenders, whereas a sweeping lifetime-deficiency of rat poison and nerve agents in our bodies is one of the biggest, most blatant lies in all history. Each year it's easy to find a school district science fair whereby a smart kid makes an experimental study of soaking various items (pennies, extracted teeth, etc.) in soda pop to see how long it takes to dissolve them. In one such experiment it took only 14 days for Pepsi Cola to dissolve the entire outer layer of enamel from a human tooth. For the benefit of enlightening the U.S. Public Health Service, the ADA, the AMA, and the sugar and soda pop industries, try this complicated scientific experiment: Obtain a couple of extracted teeth, give just one of them a standard stannous fluoride treatment which supposedly proofs it against cavities, soak both of them in Coca-Cola or Pepsi--with a few teaspoons of sugar added--for a couple of weeks, daily changing the liquid and scrubbing the one tooth with fluoridated toothpaste, and then examine the two teeth. That should conclusively prove who is more stupid, God or the broad general public. Since fluoridation was originally promoted as effective just for children under 14 years old, then the public health officials had a problem. How to justify mass-medicating adults with poisonous fluoride? One of the latest public health schemes along this line actually states that fluoride in saliva kills tooth plaque, emphasizing that the only way to get fluorine in your saliva is via drinking fluoridated water! Nothing is said of the toxic, life-shortening effects caused by having that much fluorine in your body, however. It not only kills plaque, but everything else in its path. Is the object only to give you the brightest smile in the morgue? An unexplored avenue of interest here is the chemical concoction inside a can of soda pop. Given the above statements about the corrosive action of soda pop, and also given the data on aluminum's probable relationship to Alzheimers disease, and also given the fact that soda pop is made with fluoridated water, and given the fact that poisons combine synergistically, usually in unpleasantly toxic ways, is there ANY guarantee whatsoever that your typical fluorinated can of soda pop will not even slightly assimilate some of the aluminum metal out of the wall of the can, and thus make a synergistic soda-fluoride-aluminum-sugar cocktail that has slow acting, long-term lifetime effects? Simple research challenge: Find some unopened soda pop that's several years old, and have a laboratory analyze the ingredients to check the aluminum and fluoride concentration. SWEDEN FLUORIDATION FAILURE NOTE: The following data on Sweden and Holland could not be found in official medical, dental or other scientific literature, almost as if it had been purged or never been reported at all. 13 June 1970 the Gothenburg POST (Sweden); 5 Aug 1970 the NEWS REGISTER (Sweden); and 1 May 1970 NORSK FOLKEHELSELAG (Norway) TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH: In 1969 the country of Sweden intended to fluoridate their water supply due to the strong advice of Professor Yngve Ericsson, a Swedish dentist who was also the senior representative on the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Fluoridation. However, it was then found that Professor Ericsson coincidentally was the holder of two highly-profitable patents on fluoride toothpaste! A subsequent investigation disclosed that the World Health Organization's numerous so-called "objective" comparative studies on mortality and morbidity for fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated areas simply didn't exist! The investigation stated that the World Health Organization's report was unacceptable from a scientific point of view, and that some of the claims set forth in the WHO report actually lack any and every basis in fact. The conclusion was that the details given by WHO on risks and safety margins were grossly defective. Sweden thus remains non-fluoridated, to this day. HOLLAND FLUORIDATION FAILURE In the mid 1970's the Netherlands fluoridated the city of Amsterdam, after which an investigation disclosed that between 100,000 and 200,000 people had developed "more or less severe side effects" to fluoride. A subsequent campaign by concerned physicians and public resulted in fluoride's complete removal from the Netherland's water supply, and the national law was also changed in such a way to permanently ban future fluoridation for the Netherlands. 3-YEAR-OLD NEW YORK CHILD POISONED TO DEATH IN DENTAL CHAIR June 28, 1974: Little William Kennerly, age 3, of New York died just four hours after receiving a brush-on stannous fluoride treatment during his first and only trip to the dentist. William didn't know that he wasn't supposed to swallow the fluoride, and he paid with his life. Extracts from the autopsy report, performed by a Dr. Torno on 25 May 1974 at Kings County Mortuary: "William Kennerly Case #K74-3511 AUTOPSY REPORT Age: 3 years Height: 39" Weight: 32 lb Clinical history - the child swallowed about 45cc of 2% stannous fluoride solution in the pediatric dental clinic, Bristol Street Clinic, at 9:30 a.m. He was given epinephrine I.M. in dental clinic and sent to Brookdale Medical Center for close observation. The child came to Brookdale Medical Center at 12:30 noon, was well until 1:00 when suddenly went into Cardiac respiratory arrest and was in shock. The child vomited out and had an unrecordable blood pressure. He finally expired on May 24, 1974, at 2:00 p.m." A toxicologist's report stated that little William had swallowed the equivalent of three lethal doses. His parents later collected several hundred thousand dollars in a wrongful-death lawsuit, but that was small consolation for the senseless loss of their son. Toothpaste is similar in this regard, because a typical family-sized 7-ounce tube of toothpaste contains enough stannous fluoride or sodium fluoride to kill a 20-pound child. To test this, just call the 800 number listed on your toothpaste box, tell them that your 2-year-old child has just eaten half a tube of toothpaste and that he's now vomiting, act frantic, and watch how quickly your call gets patched directly through to a Poison Control Center. (It's common for a child to vomit for 12 hours, after eating a large quantity of toothpaste.) CONGRESSIONAL INACTION July 21, 1975: When confronted with new evidence regarding the role of fluoride in causing cancer, U.S. Congressman Delaney recommended immediate suspension of all artificial fluoridation, pending further research. His recommendation was ignored. Dec. 16, 1975: Congressman Delaney entered into the Congressional Record the results of a new study showing another link between fluoridation and cancer. This time he demanded "that all artificial fluoridation of our water supplies be suspended immediately." Once again, his unprofitable demands were ignored. DENTAL ASSOCIATION PR LIE REVEALED THE LIE: August 1, 1979: A letter from the Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Dental Association stated, "In a community with a fluoridated water supply, the dental manpower required to maintain a good standard of dental health in a community is always halved." THE TRUTH: The 1976 edition of the C.B.S. News Almanac published figures showing the number of dentists per 100,000 population in 30 "Representative American Cities." Of these 30 cities, 16 were artificially fluoridated. A simple comparison of the fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated cities shows that there were an average of 76.7 dentists per 100,000 population in the fluoridated cities, vs. 59.2 dentists per 100,000 in the non-fluoridated cities. Furthermore, data from the 1971 American Dental Directory, the 1971 U.S. Statistical Abstracts and the 1973 World Almanac reveals that the three American cities which have been fluoridated the longest (Grand Rapids, Newburgh, and Evanston) averaged 121 dentists per 100,000 population, or over twice the national average, after approximately 25 years on fluoridated water. (Data compiled by Phillip R.N. Sutton, D.D.Sc., Melbourne, Australia, 1979.) JAPANESE FLUORIDE-RELATED CANCER RESEARCH 24 August, 1982: The Japan Times published an article expressing concern about potential hazards of topical fluoride applications (9000 ppm) to teeth, and fluoride mouth rinses (250-500 ppm) has prompted researchers at the Nippon Dental College in Tokyo to investigate effects of fluoride on hamster fetal cell cultures, with results that can only be described as very disturbing. At the August '82 meeting of the Japanese Society for Cancer Research, Associate Professor of Pharmacology Taketi Tsutsui and his colleague, Dr. Maizumi, reported that 24-hour contact with sodium fluoride solutions at concentrations of 34, 45, and 57 ppm (fluorine ion), results in morphological changes and malignant transformations in second-generation hamster fetal cells. After the one- day fluoride treatment, one group of cells was cultured for one week and then fixed and stained for study. Survival rates of 90, 50 and 30% were found for the exposure to 34, 45, and 57 ppm respectively, with morphological changes of 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0% in the surviving colonies. In the untreated control cultures, the incidence of abnormalities was significantly lower -- only 0.03% or less. In another series of experiments, cells from the 34 and 45-ppm fluoride treatments were found to have acquired the ability to proliferate in soft agar for an additional 50 to 200 days. These cells were then shown to have developed a strong tumor-forming capacity. In the untreated control cultures, neither proliferated in soft agar nor acquisition of tumor-forming capacity were observed, and only one of four cultures had transformed into one having infinite proliferative characteristics. Between 100 and 200 days after the sodium fluoride treatment, cells from the 34 and 45-ppm treated cultures were transplanted subdermally into each of two 10-hamster groups. The animals were then observed for the appearance of tumors. All surviving three hamsters in the group that received cells from the 34-ppm treated culture developed cancer (fibro-carcinoma) at the site of injection. Likewise, all eight surviving hamsters receiving the 45-ppm treated cells developed cancer. The other hamsters in both groups died from causes other than cancer, before the experiments were completed. None of the hamsters in the control group that received the untreated cells, developed cancer. FLUORIDE BANNED IN CUMBERLAND 1990: The residents of Cumberland, Maryland voted to ban fluoride from their drinking water, not long after the community's 26-year ban on the chemical was lifted because of the urging of dentists and other special-interest officials. The fluoride issue divided the city such that it was reportedly responsible for the defeat of Cumberland's incumbent pro-fluoride mayor George Wycoff, who lost to Harry Stern, a strong opponent of fluoridation. 1992: Statement by Pennsylvania Justice Flaherty, after 40 days of court hearings on fluoride: "... I entered an injunction against the fluoridation of the public water supply for a large portion of Allegheny County. ... In my view, the evidence is quite convincing that the addition of sodium fluoride to the public water supply at one part per million is extremely deleterious to the human body, and a review of the evidence will disclose that there was no convincing evidence to the contrary." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice John P. Flaherty (Townsend Letter For Doctors - June 1992, p. 450) DEATH FROM FLUORIDATED WATER, 1992 May 23, 1992: 290 residents of Hooper Bay, Alaska were severely poisoned by sodium fluoride when the city's fluoride dispenser malfunctioned, injecting 150 PPM of fluoride into the drinking water for over a week. Dominic Smith, previously healthy 41 year-old leader of the local National Guard, died of fluoride poisoning after swallowing an estimated 1200-2400 mg of sodium fluoride from the local drinking water supply. One overdose symptom of fluoride is thirst, and Dominic just kept drinking more water until he died. Fluoride is cumulative in the body--somewhat like radiation--so it's been predicted that those poisoned residents who didn't die will have worsened health for the rest of their life. (We'll know in a few years. Half of the town drank from a different well, and they didn't get sick.) It's common for a private vested interest to put up a "smokescreen" by redefining terminology to fit their needs. In this case a Public Health Service report regarding the above incident called it an "outbreak" as if it were a live disease organism out of control, instead of the mass poisoning that it actually was. (The end justifies the means; it's all God's fault, after all, by being stupid and neglecting to engineer enough fluoride into our bodies...) NUMEROUS U.S. MECHANICAL FLUORIDE DISPENSER FAILURES Similar malfunctions of fluoridation equipment have occasionally happened nationwide over the past 40 years, each accompanied by a careful news cover-up. Fluoride dispensing machinery is not perfect. Human overdoses of fluoride can be found in such places as Annapolis, Maryland in 1979, when their water treatment plant dumped up to 50 PPM fluoride into their water supply, giving approximately 50,000 people toxic reactions. Officials kept it quiet for 2 weeks afterwards saying, "We didn't want to jeopardize the fluoridation program." However, Dr. John Yiamouyiannis studied the Annapolis situation after the spill, and reported his findings in a book, "Fluoride the Aging Factor". On page 63 of his book, he stated that more than 5 times the normal number of people died of heart failure in Annapolis during the week following the fluoride spill. During a conversation in 1992, Dr. Yiamouyiannis stated that the actual cause of the Annapolis spill was a human error, done to cover up a mechanical malfunction that had occurred. Evidently Annapolis had a small fluoride day-tank which was supposed to fill up with fluoride and then the pump would stop. However, the pump malfunctioned and kept running after filling up the tank, and the excess fluoride spilled over into a large waste-sump before it was finally discovered. To cover up the error, the operator who discovered it deliberately pumped the entire overspill (1,000 gallons) directly back into the fresh-water supply. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 1980:244; 7) had this short PR article on the above fluoride spill, meanwhile carefully avoiding using Annapolis' name: FLUORIDE. In what the PHS [Public Health Service] calls "the first instance of fluoride overexposure known to have caused serious illness in the 35 years since fluoridation of community water supplies was begun," eight patients undergoing renal dialysis (kidney bypass) in a Maryland community became ill and one died. Charles M. Wax, MD, assigned by the CDC to the Maryland State Department of Health, said investigation revealed that failure to close a valve in the community's treatment plant led to the spilling of 3,800 Liters (1,000 gallons) of 22% hydrofluosilicic acid into the water supply. Further investigation, he said, "raised the possibility of widespread mild fluoride intoxication within the community as the result of drinking overfluoridated water." Dr. Yiamouyiannis said that many fish in Annapolis pet shops died shortly after the Annapolis fluoride spill. JAMA's report was false, however. Public records show that contrary to the above PHS claim that Annapolis was the first of such a malfunction, the following 12 U.S. communities had had overdoses of sodium fluoride in their water supplies before that time: Rome, PA 6/6/72 Stanley County, NC, 4/16/74 Lebanon, PA, 8/20/75 Seattle, WA 5/76 Stanford Univ., CA 1976 Syracuse, NY 3/29/77 Marin County, CA 1977 Harbor Springs, MI 1977 St. Charles, MN 1978 Los Lunas, NM 11/17/78 Fenton, MI 1979 Island Falls, ME 1979. Further, since 1979 the following communities have also had fluoride overdoses in their drinking water supplies: Nisqually Indian Res. WA 1980 Shaftsbury, VT 8/30/80 Potsdam, NY 1981 Morristown, NY 2/7/81 Saratoga Springs, NY 5/81 Pendleton, OR 6/28/81 Jonesboro, ME 10/6/81 Alameda County, CA 1982 Rouses Pt. NY 1982 New Braunsfels, TX 7/3/82 Painted Post Village, NY 12/14/82 Plattsburgh, NY 1/1/83 Marysville, MI 1983 Crown Pt. NM 1983 Grand Rapids, MI 7/84 Vancouver, WA 1/20/85 Elkhart, IN 2/5/85 Charleston, IL 1985 Sequoyah, OK 1986 New Haven CN 1986 Antigo, WI 1989 Hooper Bay, Alaska, May 1992 (one fatality, 290 toxic reactions). In the July 84 Grand Rapids MI spill, 8 PPM of fluoride was reportedly dumped into that city's water supply for more than a month, before being discovered and repaired. In the 5/92 Hooper Bay Alaska spill, up to 150 PPM fluoride was tested in the village water supply one week before the death of Dominic Smith, the near-death of his sister, and simultaneous flu-like symptoms experienced by over 290 villagers. 80% OF ILLINOIS FLUORIDE TREATMENT PLANTS WERE FAULTY IN 1989 In 1989 the State of Illinois had 1,931 public water facilities, 1,000 of which were fluoridated. The State Health Department gave awards out to each state water treatment facility that was able to maintain the recommended dosage of fluoride in their water for the entire year, but they only gave 115 awards out to the 1,000 fluoridation facilities that year, meaning that 885 treatment plants did NOT keep the fluoride dosages within required limits. (Crete Record, Crete, IL 9/21/89) JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF FLUORIDE DECREASES REACTION TIME >From an article in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 67, No. 2, Pp. 230-238: Researchers in the Dept. of Psychology at Florida International University, North Miami, found a statistically significant delay (almost 1/2 second longer to respond) in visual response to a peripheral light stimulus in subjects given just 1/2 milligram of sodium fluoride. That dose is less fluoride than the amount you get from drinking one cup of coffee or tea made from fluoridated tap water. FDA NEVER APPROVED CHILDREN'S FLUORIDE SUPPLEMENTS June 3, 1993: New Jersey State Assemblyman John V. Kelly held a press conference in Room 109 of the New Jersey State House in Trenton, NJ. He requested that the FDA remove all children's fluoride supplements from the market, after he asked the FDA to supply his office with the studies supporting the safety and effectiveness of children's fluoride supplements and the FDA evidently searched their files back to 1939 and reported to him that NO DRUG APPLICATIONS HAD EVER BEEN FILED FOR THESE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS. All children's fluoride supplements, in the FDA's own words, were and are "unapproved new drugs." The pharmaceutical companies have been openly running a scam for years, by selling these products. Thus illegal, unscientific but highly profitable fluoride supplements are still being promoted and sold by the medical and dental professions, meanwhile in 1997 the FDA is quietly gearing up on an active campaign to ban common herbs and food supplements from our health food stores for the purpose of redefining them as "drugs" so that pharmaceutical companies will then have a monopoly on these substances. (Follow the money.) To find more data on this, do an internet search on the word CODEX, which is the European program already in place. 1994: The US Public Health Service and the American Dental Association are both continuing to strongly promote and expand the profitable U.S. fluoridation campaign. They boast that over 60% of the United States population is now drinking fluoridated water every day, even though fluoride's only original stated purpose was to aid the developing teeth of children under 14 years. VARIOUS FLUORIDE POISON REFERENCES "Fluorine was substituted for chlorine in Lindane, to make it a far more toxic substance." (Plummer, W.J. and Wall, L.H. Science, Vol. 127, 1958) "Fluorine is substituted for chlorine in DDT to produce more effective and more toxic insecticides." (Reimschneider, R. Suddent. Apoth. Ztg. 1947) "Fluorine in the atmosphere increases the sensitivity of the thyroid gland to damaging effects of atmospheric sulfur dioxide." (Gabovich, R.D. et. al., Chemical Abstracts, p. 9051) In other words, fluoride has a synergistic poisoning effect with sulfur dioxide, a component of smog. "Sodium silicofluoride spray on oranges remains in the peel, and so can cause severe toxicity..." (Union of So. Africa, Dept Agr. Forestry Sci. Bull. No. 236, 1943) Note: Marmalade is made from citrus peel. "1080, or Sodium Fluoroacetate, is described in a federal training manual as a 'biological high-explosive.' " (Los Angeles Times, December 6, 1970) Sodium fluoroacetate (also known as FAC, RATBANE 1080, COMPOUND 1080, FRATOL, FURATOL, YASOKNOCK, SODIUM MONOFLUOROACETATE, and SODIUM FLUOACETIC ACID) is listed in a hazardous waste book as being 500 times more toxic to rats than was regular sodium fluoride. This is because it's an "organic metabolite." 1080 was used to kill rodents as early as 1944, but was eventually banned for use in buildings due to dogs dying from eating poisoned rats. In 1952, according to Circular No. 140 of the UCLA College of Agriculture, it was reported that 1080 worked so rapidly that it was impossible to save experimentally poisoned animals, even with first aid and under the best of laboratory conditions. Scientists had yet to find an antidote for 1080 at that time. Only our nerve warfare laboratories have the full story. QUESTION: If fluoridation of our water supplies was originally stated to be just for the "developing teeth of children under 14," then why were U.S. military bases among the first to fluoridate their water supplies? Why would anybody want Rambo to be STUPID, DOCILE, and SUBSERVIENT? (And why did Admiral Forrestal "commit suicide" by jumping out a window with his hands tied behind his back and a sheet knotted around his neck, not long after he'd adamantly opposed the fluoridation of his military bases, among other things?) Incidentally, fluoride reactions resemble Attention Deficit Disorder in a certain percentage of the population, and especially in hyperactive children. The simple test of this is to get the person under question off of ALL sources of fluoride (fluoridated water, toothpaste, soda pop bottled with fluoridated water, canned soup, etc.) and see if their condition improves over a period of 3-4 weeks. Use distilled water, because most simple charcoal water filters will not remove fluorides. To remove possible variables, also test the child for negative reactions to sugar and sugar-substitutes. It's a tragedy that children are given the habit-forming drug Ritalin to counter the effects of a "disease" that might only be due to their adverse reactions to the drug fluoride, and/or to sugar. Following the money, this tragedy is good business, and the "sickness industry" is a multi-multi-billion-dollar business. Note the following fluoride symptoms as referenced in "Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica," Vol IX, p.333. These symptoms--by volunteers who took varying quantities of fluorides--were listed one hundred years ago, in 1887! FLUORIDE SYMPTOMS: --Great loss of memory, forgets almost everything. --Good memory in morning, forgetfulness every evening. --Forgetfulness in his daily employment of dates. --On making notes, mistakes right for left. --Mental weakness. --Mental excitability. --Feels indifference towards those he loves best. --Aversion (intense dislike) to his own family, bordering on insanity. --Gay disposition, everything is satisfactory. --Excessive hilarity; great buoyancy of mind. --Greatly depressed in mind. --Exceedingly anxious, causing sweat; greater in morning than evening. --Sensation as if danger menaced him, but without fear. --Felt certain that something dreadful would happen, with dullness in head. --Fear of apoplexy (stroke). --Anxiety. --Irritable, disagreeing mood. --Moodiness in evening, greater than morning. --Very ill humored. --Discontent and excessive ill humor followed by indifference and forgetfulness, and finally by perfect contentment and uncommonly gay disposition of mind. --Congestion of blood mostly to forehead. --Feeling in brain as if on the verge of being struck with apoplexy. (A stroke) --Vertigo with sickness of stomach. --A kind of sinking weakness, has to sit down. --Feeling as if in an earthquake. --Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head, same in hands. --Sensation of numbness in forehead. --Congestion of blood in forehead. --Heaviness above eyes, with nausea. --Severe pressing of both temples. --Compressing pain in temples. --Slight pain in right temple, followed by left. --Headache in skull, behind ears. --Headache accompanied by congestion of blood to head, sensation of numbness. --Headache every morning. --Sensation of weakness, like numbness in head. --Numbness in head and hands. --Dull, heavy headache. --Congestive headache. --Dullness & pressure in back of head. --Dullness in back of head. --Pressure on both sides, back of head. --Headache in back of head, with fullness in head. --Headache from neck to forehead; dull feeling in head. --Atrophy of brain. Is it a coincidence that the above-listed fluoride symptoms sound almost exactly like the TYPICAL EVERYDAY ANECDOTAL PATIENT ILLNESS COMPLAINTS which today's expensive TV commercials, pharmacies, physicians and psychiatrists are so eager to "cure" with their endless supply of profitable new drugs, many of which contain fluoride? This is like a snake swallowing his own tail. The bottom line is to follow the money. Look at the high standard of living of those who are promoting and distributing the current crop of pharmaceuticals, versus the lower living standards and drug-education level and gullibility of the ignorant general public who are becoming convinced that pharmaceuticals in general are a NUTRIENT. Public sickness and ignorance is good business, in some circles. --Found on the Internet, March 18, 1997: ENVIRONMENTALLY-CAUSED MENTAL RETARDATION Mental Fluorosis: Brain Damage from Exposure to Fluorides By George Glasser (Courtesy of Sarasota ECO Report, Guy Alland, Publisher. P.O. Box 35500 Sarasota, FL 34242 (941) 925-1946) "Those who are for and against fluoridation have little common ground other than issues they disagree on. They cannot dialogue objectively because they have different realities. They see things differently, and have different criteria in determining validity. Our lives are enriched by artists for whom "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." But our lives are often endangered when scientific truth is in the eye of the beholder." (Dr. Schatz, discoverer of streptomycin) Only now are the insidious facts about Sarin (nerve gas) surfacing as more comes out about the "Gulf War Syndrome" and the Tokyo subway incident. It appears that with both incidents, the people exposed to Sarin are suffering from a variety of chronic adverse health and lingering neurotoxic effects such as memory loss. Sarin is the most potent neurotoxic substance known. Sarin is also a fluorinated organophosphate similar to, but more toxic to humans than the insecticide Parathion. Sarin is the prime example of toxicokinetics of the fluorine ion. When the fluorine ion is combined with relatively benign substances it often creates a powerful toxicant (toxic synergism). With Sarin, the fluorine ion is like an arming mechanism for the relatively benign organophosphate which transforms it into a compound with one hell-of-a-wallop. Acute exposure to Sarin, a drop about the size of a grain of sand, causes spasms (tetany), heart palpitations (cardiac arrhythmia), many other neurological disorders, and possibly, collapse of the nervous system and death. Production of acetylcholine, the most important chemical for nervous system function is disrupted. Acetylcholine is responsible for carrying all neuro-transmissions in the brain and throughout the nervous system of the body. Many animal studies of fluorinated organophosphates also suggest a delayed neurotoxic reaction similar to those experiences by those people exposed to Sarin. With water fluoridation, the public is exposed to a variety of fluorides, and aside from the fluorine ion, some of those fluorides are neurotoxic. Many scientists discount the fluorine ion as being neurotoxic; however, the weight of scientific evidence strongly indicates that the fluorine ion is, if nothing else, the perpetrator. This is evidenced by the variety of highly effective fluorinated drugs that are used to treat mental disorders, and the fluorine ion's role in the devastating effectiveness of Sarin as a chemical nerve agent. Many psychoactive drugs are fluorinated. Two of the most noted are Prozac and Rohypnol (better known as the infamous date-rape drug, "Roofs."). Rohypnol is fluorinated Valium, which is about 20-30 times more potent than Valium alone. Essentially, these drugs effect enzyme functions in certain areas of the brain to achieve the desired effect. The primary ingredients of most psychoactive drugs suppress enzyme production, and the fluorine ion is also an enzyme inhibitor. The one particular side effect common to almost all fluorinated drugs which is mentioned in the Physician's Desk Reference is memory loss. These drugs include Fenfluramine (a fluorinated weight loss drug), fluorinated corticosteroids, and fluorinated psychoactive drugs. Memory loss and learning disorders are associated with the hippocampal area of the brain. On page 125 of the Toxicological Profile for Fluorides it is stated: "Neurotoxicity: Because fluoride interacts with calcium ions needed for effective neurotransmission, fluoride can affect the nervous system." This statement is reinforced by recent studies performed by Dr. Robert Isaacson and Dr. Phyllis Mullenix which were concluded shortly after the publication of the profile. Since 1992 there have been three studies confirming that fluorides affect brain functions. Dr. Robert Isaacson, Binghamton University, New York conducted two studies using low levels of aluminum fluoride and sodium fluoride. The levels were similar to the amounts people are exposed to on a daily basis from fluoridated toothpastes and drinking water. Results showed that both types of fluorides were neurotoxic. The most recent study, "Neurotoxicity of Sodium Fluoride in Rats", Mullenix, et al, published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology 1995, was done using larger doses of sodium fluoride and corroborated the results of both Isaacson studies (1992 &.1994). All the studies demonstrated that the hippocampal region (learning center) of the brain was the most susceptible to the effects of fluorides. It was also stated in the study published in Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 1995, Mullenix, et al, that: "Hyperactivity and cognitive deficits are generally linked with hippocampal damage, and in fact, the hippocampus is considered to be the central processor which integrates inputs from the environment, memory, and motivational stimuli to produce behavioral decisions and modify memory." However, the researchers said that although the behavior of rats does not extrapolate to humans, the generic behavioral patterns created in rats from fluoride exposure can and probably do occur in humans. They also said the problems that might occur in humans from typical chronic fluoride exposure during pregnancy and early childhood are: "motor-sensory dysfunction, IQ deficits' and/or learning disabilities" (environmentally induced retardation of brain development). While Dr. Mullenix's study dealt only with sodium fluoride, Dr. Isaacson's studies focused on aluminum fluoride compared to sodium fluoride and were performed to determine if fluoridated water's effect on leaching aluminum or combining with the aluminum sulphate added to some water as a clarifier [by water treatment facilities] had an impact on the development of Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's studies had determined that there was a significant build-up of aluminum in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. Population studies also suggested that there appeared to be a higher incidence of Alzheimer's disease among people who lived in fluoridated areas which was the impetus for Dr. Isaacson's study. Isaacson's study indicated that the aluminum fluoride was more neurotoxic than the sodium fluoride. Recent studies in China, where coal containing fluorides is used for cooking and heating, determined that fluorides released during burning and inhaled by young children were responsible for lowered IQ's. Documents with regards to the neurotoxic effects of fluoride exposure among the workers who processed uranium for the first nuclear bombs in 1944 were recently declassified by the government. These documents indicate that the US Government has known for more than fifty years that fluorides are neurotoxic. Other studies dating back to 1949 indicate that exposure to fluorides can have neurotoxic effects on animals. The first form of nerve gas, Soman (a fluorine compound) was developed by the Germans during World War II which indicates that scientists were well aware of neurotoxicity of fluoride compounds almost sixty years ago. Through water fluoridation, the general population, especially children who are most susceptible to developmental changes, are exposed to fluorides. In the "Toxicological Profile for Fluorides", 1993, page 90, it states, "The fluorine ion carried in human blood serum exists in two forms, namely as an inorganic ion (F-) and in combination with an organic molecule. The toxicological significance of the latter form is unknown. A portion of circulating fluoride acts as an enzyme inhibitor because it forms metal-fluoride-phosphate complexes that interfere with the activity of those enzymes requiring a metal ion cofactor. In addition, fluoride may interact directly with the enzyme or the substrate. It is a general inhibitor of the energy production system of the cell...." The fluorine ion has a negative electrical charge while metal ions have a positive electrical charge, and they readily combine to form metal-fluoride-complexes. Both metal ions and fluorine ions are very small. Consequently, they can easily pass through cell membranes. Once in the cell, a natural chemical reaction occurs where the fluorine ion is released from the metal ion. The fluorine ion interferes with the enzyme function and continues on, while the metal ion is left behind. It is also possible for the fluorine ion to attach to a trace mineral such as zinc which is essential to enzyme function and remove it from the cell. This same scenario is how fluoride acts as a delivery mechanism for psychoactive drugs, but with water fluoridation, the passenger is a neurotoxic substance such as lead, mercury or aluminum for which the brain is the target organ. Because the poisoning of the brain is accomplished from chronic, low-level doses of highly potent (synergized) metal-fluoride-complexes, conventional standards used to determine intoxication would be inadequate (a linear dose-response to a particular neurotoxic substance). Like Rohypnol or Sarin, the neurotoxic substances may well be synergized with the addition of the fluorine ion. Consequently, lead or mercury fluoride combinations could be much more neurotoxic than the independent metal ion. While symptoms may indicate that a person is suffering from neurotoxicity, the method and standards used to measure toxicity and/or serum levels of substances would not indicate toxic levels in the body. The present accepted method used by researchers to determine adverse effects is to attempt to target a single substance as the causative rather than address chemical interactions that can and do occur when chemicals are metabolized in the human body or through environmental reactions. The consequences of not considering synergized chemical interactions would be misdiagnoses and possibly the prescribing of a medication that may exacerbate the condition. To further confound the problem, there are only several animal studies available on the neurotoxic effects of metal-fluoride-complexes on which to base any diagnosis. The present thought among most pro and anti-fluoridation scientists and researchers is that since the neurotoxic metal-fluoride-complexes are only found at trace levels in fluoridated water, they are of little significance. Most scientists are only concerned with how much of a specific toxicant will cause an adverse immediate health effect, not how little of a synergized toxicant will cause an adverse health effect with prolonged chronic, low-level exposure. The problem with fluorides is that it is difficult to prove that the fluorine ion had anything to do with a metabolic crime involving neurotoxic damage related to metal-fluoride-complexes. This is because the fluorine ion is the vehicle that carries the neurotoxic substance, effectively delivers it to the target area of the brain where it will do the most damage, leaves it, and then continues on its metabolic journey. With lethal doses of poisons such as Sarin or sodium fluoroacetate, it would be almost impossible to determine that a person had been poisoned from the fluorinated toxicants. This is because of the bioactivity of the fluorine ion which is in a constant state of transition as it travels through the body. With these fluoride compounds, the examining physician would have to know that a person was exposed to these substances to determine the cause of death, otherwise, it would be written off as heart failure. Diagnosing the effects of chronic, low-level exposure to fluoride compounds would be almost impossible unless appropriate research was done to determine what those adverse affects were and that the physicians were aware of the research. In essence, it can be said that the ubiquitous fluorine ion when combined with another substance could be the perpetrator of almost perfect neurological or biological crimes. This is because: 1. Neither toxic levels of the fluorine ion nor the accomplice substance can be placed at the scene of the crime in significant amounts to indicate intoxication; 2. Scientists generally discount toxic synergism as a factor with chronic fluoride toxicity; and 3. there is no research data on which to base a diagnosis. The weight of scientific evidence suggests that the fluorine ion is the most logical perpetrator of neurotoxic damage. It is also a scientific fact that the fluorine ion has a particular affinity for metal ions of which some, such as lead, aluminum and mercury are neurotoxic and accumulate in brain tissues. And it is a well known scientific fact among toxicologists that the fluorine ion acts as a synergizing agent for many toxicants. Consequently, it is only logical to assume that the neurotoxic metal-fluoride-phosphate complexes act as potentiated neurotoxicants. [Note: Only several hundred registered professional toxicologists exist in the entire U.S.) The only adverse effects most scientists are interested in with regards to water fluoridation are the effects of the fluorine ion, which is an intangible, and which accumulates in endpoint tissues after the fact (meaning, after the metabolic damage has been done). The fluorine ion, alone, only exists instantaneously in a transitional phase during such a chemical reaction. Long term effects of low-level chronic exposure to synergized fluoride compounds/complexes are possibly considered inconsequential, although the population is exposed to low-levels of these cumulative chemicals on a daily basis via fluoridated water, toothpaste, mouthwash, residual fluorinated insecticides, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides on fruits and vegetables along with environmental fluoride pollution. In the Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 69, Feb. 1990, pg. 584, there is a mention of toxic synergism and concern over metal-fluoride complexes in Recommendations from Session IV, Needed Research, #7, "Consider variations in physiological, nonphysiological, and pathological changes __ for example, diet, ambient temperature, altitude, environmental pollution and disease states. Environmental pollutants __ heavy metals, for example __ should be monitored not just for their effects on Fluorine but for their other effects per se". The effects of long-term, low-level exposure to these cumulative metal-fluoride complexed neurotoxicants and organophosphates are contingent on several factors: The age of the person, diet, health, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, genetic disposition, ethnicity, length of exposure, previous exposure to neurotoxicants, medications, and environmental factors. Not all people react the same. There is much research data on the neurotoxic effects of lead, mercury and aluminum: Lead is associated with environmental retardation (learning disorders); mercury is associated with various nervous and mental disorders (the "mad hatter" syndrome, where hatters once used mercury to make felt hats); and aluminum has been associated with memory loss (Presenile dementia, or Alzheimer's disease). However, since there are only several studies about neurotoxic metal-fluoride-complexes, one can only speculate what effects chronic, long-term, low-level exposure to synergistic combinations of these complexes could be. In reviewing pharmaceutical, agricultural and chemical warfare research data, it appears safe to assume that the neurotoxic effects of metal-fluoride-complexes would be magnified as with the case of Rohypnol and other psychoactive drugs. It is also logical to believe, that like soldiers suffering from Sarin exposure ("Gulf War Syndrome"), there might not be an antidote for the adverse metabolic reaction caused by organophosphates that are also used in agricultural products or metal-fluoride-complexes. Possibly, continued chronic exposure to low-levels of fluorides might well exacerbate the initial effects. (END of George Glasser's article) =================================================== SARIN (MILITARY DESIGNATION "GB") As previously stated, Sarin was developed and used by the Nazis in Germany, used by terrorists in Tokyo several years ago (in Newsweek Magazine's coverage photos of the Tokyo gas attack, did you notice the photo of numerous small light-green barrels clearly marked SODIUM FLUORIDE, in the terrorist's Sarin-manufacturing facility?), and used by Iraq in the Gulf War. The following EPA Chemical Profile of SARIN nerve gas was recently published on the Internet, after pressure from Gulf War Syndrome veterans. Notice this quote from SECTION VII of the following chemical profile, regarding the neutralization of SARIN: "Rapidly hydrolyzed by dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate forming relatively non-toxic products. Water alone removes the fluorine atom, producing a non-toxic acid (Merck 1983, p. 1204)" THUS, THE FLUORINE ATOM IS THE SINGLE INGREDIENT THAT CHANGES A NON-TOXIC ACID INTO SARIN, ONE OF THE MOST VIRULENT AND DEADLY NERVE GASES KNOWN TO MANKIND. =============================================================== EPA CHEMICAL PROFILE October 31, 1987 CHEMICAL IDENTITY - SARIN (Military Chemical Nerve Agent) CAS Registry Number: 107-44-8 Synonyms [alternate names]: (NIOSH/RTECS 1983 Synonyms, Volume 3, p. 122) -- GB -- MFI -- IMPF -- T-144 -- T-2106 -- TL 1618 -- Sarin II -- Trilone 46 -- Isopropyl Methylfluorophosphate -- Isopropyl Methanefluorophosphonate -- Isopropoxymethylphosphoryl Fluoride -- Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl Fluoride -- Phosphine Oxide, Fluoroisopropoxymethyl -- Methylphosphonofluoridic Acid-Isopropyl Ester -- Phosphoric Acid, Methyifluoro-Isopropyl Ester -- Phosphonofluoridic Acid, Methyl-Isopropyl Ester Chemical Formula: C4H10FO2P Molecular Weight: 140.11 SECTION I -- REGULATORY INFORMATION CERCLA (SARA) 1986: Toxicity Value Used for Listing Under Section 302: LC50 inhalation (human) 0.07 mg/liter (*NIOSH/RTECS 1985) TPQ: 10 (pounds) RQ: 1 (pound) (statutory, for notification under SARA Section 304(a)(2)) Section 313 Listed (Yes or No): No SECTION II --PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS Physical State: Liquid Boiling Point: 2970F, 1470C (Merck 1983, p. 1204) Specific Gravity (H2O=1): 1.10 at 200C/40C (Merck 1983, p. 1204) Vapor Pressure (mmHg): 2.9 at 250C (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4) Melting Point: -710F, -570C (Merck 1983, p. 1204) Vapor Density (AIR=l): 4.86 (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4) Evaporation Rate (Butyl acetate=1): About the same as water (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4) Solubility in Water: Miscible with and hydrolyzed by water (Merck 1983, p. 1204) Appearance and Odor: Liquid (Merck 1983, p. 1204). A colorless liquid and vapor. Almost no odor in pure state (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-3 to 3-4). SECTION III -- HEALTH HAZARD DATA OSHA PEL: Not Found ACGIH TLV: Not Found IDLH: Not Found Other Limits Recommended: Not Found Routes of Entry: Inhalation: Yes (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4) Skin: Yes (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4) Ingestion: Yes (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4) Health Hazards (Acute, Delayed, and Chronic): Extremely toxic; lethal dose in humans may be as low as 0.01 mg/kg. [10 parts per billion.] Extremely active cholinesterase inhibitor. Toxic effects similar to, but more severe than those of parathion (Merck 1983, p. 1204). Death within 15 minutes after fatal dose is absorbed (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4). Medical Conditions Generally Aggravated by Exposure: Not Found SECTION IV -- FIRE AND EXPLOSION HAZARD DATA Flash Point (Method Used): Non-flammable (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4) Flammable Limits: LEL: Not Found UEL: Not Found Extinguishing Methods: Extinguish with foam, carbon dioxide, and dry chemical (Sax 1984, p. 1662) Special Fire Fighting Procedures: Protective clothing and respiratory protection (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-5). Unusual Fire and Explosion Hazards: Non-flammable (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-5) NFPA Flammability Rating: Not Found SECTION V - REACTIVITY DATA Stable: Yes (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4) Conditions to Avoid: Not Found Incompatibility (Materials to Avoid): Slightly corrosive to steel (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4). Hydrolyzed by water (Merck 1983, p. 1204). Hazardous Decomposition or Byproducts: Acidic conditions produce hydrogen fluoride; alkaline conditions produce isopropyl alcohol and polymers (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4). When heated to decomposition or reacted with steam, it emits very toxic fumes of fluorides and oxides of phosphorus (Sax 1984, p. 1662). Hazardous Polymerization: May Occur: Not Found May Not Occur: Not Found Conditions to Avoid: Not Found SECTION VI -- USE INFORMATION Quick-acting military chemical nerve agent (U.S. Army, p. 3-4). Chemical warfare agent (Merck 1983, p. 1204). SECTION VII -- PRECAUTIONS FOR SAFE HANDLING AND USE Rapidly hydrolyzed by dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate forming relatively non-toxic products. Water alone removes the fluorine atom producing a non-toxic acid (Merck 1983, p. 1204). Decontaminants include bleach slurry, dilute alkali, hot soapy water, steam and ammonia (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-4). SECTION VIII-- PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS For emergency situations, wear a positive pressure, pressure-demand, full facepiece self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) or pressure-demand supplied air respirator with escape SCBA and a fully-encapsulating, chemical resistant suit. See the introductory information section at the beginning of the profiles for additional information. SUIT MATERIAL PERFORMANCE (Based on EPA/USCG "Guidelines", 1987) (Chemical Resistance/Amount of Data) Butyl/Neoprene GOOD/LIMITED** Viton/Neoprene GOOD/LIMITED** *Based on qualitative performance information. **Based on a chemical analog. SECTION IX -- EMERGENCY TREATMENT INFORMATION Signs and Symptoms of Exposure: Symptoms include difficulty in breathing, drooling, excessive sweating, nausea, vomiting, cramps, involuntary defecation and urination, twitching, jerking, staggering, headache, confusion, drowsiness, coma, convulsion, dimness of vision and pinpoint pupils (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3-3) Emergency and First Aid Procedures: Immediate decontamination of the smallest drop is essential. Vapor penetrates the skin (U.S. Army 1975, p. 3.4). Toxic effects are similar to parathion (Sax 1984, p. 1662). Treatment for parathion is as follows: move victim to fresh air; call emergency medical care. If not breathing, give artificial respiration. If breathing is difficult, give oxygen. In case of contact with material, immediately flush skin or eyes with running water for at least 15 minutes. Speed in removing material from skin is of extreme importance. Remove and isolate contaminated clothing and shoes at the site. 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