Behavioral Effects of Fluorides On Mass Populations

by Valdamar Valerian

(c) July 20, 1996

Forwarded from (http://www.cco.net/!trufax/menu/chem.html)


Much research on the effects of fluorides on human physiology was done by
the Mellon Institute, under contract with major corporations that produce
fluoride. Because of the policies of Mellon, which does not allow the
decades of research to be accessed by the public except with express
permission of those companies who contract with it, the data is not
available to the public. However, there are literally thousands of
scientific studies which list physiological effects of fluorides. There
are no credible scientific studies which demonstrate that fluorides are
safe to ingest. Studies which are paid for by parties who manufacture
fluorides, products containing fluorides or have a vested interest in
maintaining the status quo are invalid because of a conflict of interest.
You cannot trust the fox to guard the henhouse.


Animal Studies and Carryover to Human Expectation

Literally thousands of studies are available on the physiological effects
of fluorides on animals and humans. However, toxicity studies are chiefly
carried out on animals. One of the immediate questions that arises is the
relevance of animal studies to humans. A 1995 study, Neurotoxicity of
Sodium Fluoride on Rats [ 1 ] , indicates that "experience with other
developmental neurotoxicants prompts expectations that changes in
behavioral functions will be comparable across species, especially humans
and rats." [ 2 ] The reason that rats appear to be used, rather than mice,
is that rats have a higher resistance to toxins and will not manifest
symptoms as readily. Logic then tells us that if rats are affected, the
potential for human damage is at least as great.


Human Considerations With Fluorides

Fluorides have been added to public water supplies for more than 40 years.
Even looking at the issue on a superficial level, dental fluorosis has
been on the rise in the mass population since the 1960's [ 3 ], which is
an indicator that the total amount of fluoride intake, including water
fluoridation, is has been on a serious level for some time. Exposures to
dietary fluoride easily exceed 100 parts per million (ppm); toothpastes,
which are packaged in aluminum tubes [ 4 ] ,contain 1000 to 1500 ppm
fluoride [ 5 ] .

Mouthrinses contain 230-900 ppm [ 6 ] . Store-bought juices can contain
2.8 ppm fluoride [ 7 ], a fact which even the American Dental Association
admits [ 8 ]. However, biological effects are apparent at even lower
levels [ 9 ] , and fluorides are accumulative in the brain [ 10 ], with
the effects on behavior related directly to plasma fluoride levels [ 11 ].


Thus, there are studies which directly contradict claims by proponents
that fluorides do not pass the blood-brain barrier [ 12 ] which only
reflect short-term situations. Fluorides are cumulative, and short-term
studies are specifically designed by proponents in a weak attempt to
circumvent biological data [ 13 ]. Research indicates that agencies like
the AMA and ADA were reasonably honest about the issue prior to 1945,
before corporate pressure apparently forced them to "get in line".
According to the AMA on September 18, 1943, "fluorides are general
protoplasmic poisons, with the capacity to modify the metabolism of cells
by inhibiting certain enzymes. Sources of fluorine intoxication include
drinking water containing 1ppm or more of fluorine" [ 14 ]. Amazing, isn't
it? Even the ADA was honest about the issue back then, on October 1, 1944,
when it said, "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. In light of our present
knowledge of the chemistry of the subject, the potentialities for harm
outweigh those for good "[ 15 ]. So, since the properties of fluorides
haven't changed, and the nature of human physiology haven't changed, why
do they maintain today that it causes "no harm"? What's wrong with this
picture? Since everything in society flows from the top down, we can only
assume that governmental agency pressure is the reason. In fact, that is
precisely the case, but why in God's name would that want to do that?

Since acquisition of reports on the behavior effects of fluorides on the
brain from U.S. sources is quite difficult, most of the reports (but not
all) are from foreign research. Chinese investigations have found that
levels of fluoride in water from 3-1 ppm affect the nervous system
directly without first causing physical deformations from skeletal
fluorosis [ 16 ].


Experiments on Rats and Fluorides

In rats exposed to 100 ppm fluoride for six weeks, starting at the age of
three months, fluoride levels increased in the medulla oblongata in both
sexes, and in the hippocampus of females, the sex with significant
behavioral disturbances [ 17 ].It is a matter of fact that the hippocampus
is neurologically considered to be the "central processor" in the brain
which integrates inputs from the environment, memory, and motivational
stimuli to produce behavioral decisions and modify memory [ 18 ]. Humans
are exposed to plasma levels of fluoride as high as those found in rat
studies [ 19 ], and considering water and food products containing
fluoride are given to babies and young children, it involves interruption
of normal brain development [ 20 ] and subsequent interference in the way
a human being perceives and is able to react to the environment, including
social situations of tyranny and domination.

Furthermore, generic behavioral pattern disruption as found in rat studies
can be indicative of a potential for motor dysfunction, intelligence
deficits and learning disabilities in humans [ 21 ]. As far as
accumulation of fluorides in the brain is concerned, with rats it was
found, in one case, that six weeks of consuming 75 and 100 ppm fluoride
produced a higher plasma fluoride level than did 125 ppm [ 22 ]. So,
long-term accumulation of low doses has a significant effect. The medical
establishment knew this in 1944, because they specifically said that
levels above 1ppm were dangerous. Why, then, was the "optimum level" for
water fluoridation (never mind the higher levels in foods and juices) set
at 1ppm? Why would the World Health Organization have a target of
fluoridating water supplies planetwide by the year 2000? [ 23 ] Why does
the Clinton administration push so hard to have the United States
completely fluoridated by the year 2000? Why does Mexico add 250 mg of
potassium fluoride to the salt consumed by the population? [ 24 ] Why in
1996 is the U.S. sending proponents of fluoridation to Scotland and
England to help quell the justifiable concerns of the public, who are
being termed "civil rights activists"?



More Human Studies

The Chinese have been a great souce of information on the effect of
fluorides on the intelligence of children. A study done in 1995 by Li of
907 children demonstrated that "the IQ of children living in areas of
fluorosis was lower than areas where there was no fluorosis"[ 25 ].

According to the Li study, "it appears that the influence of a fluoride
environment on the development of intelligence may occur early in
development, such as the stages of embryonic life or infancy, when the
differentiation and growth of the nervous system is most rapid." [ 26 ]

Furthermore, "active and comprehensive measures should be taken to reduce
the fluoride intake by the population." [ 27 ] If we are already getting
an overdose from the environment, why do we need it added to the water?
The practice, even in terms of simple logic, is no defensible in any
shape, way or manner. Lastly, the Li study concludes with, "this suggests
that developing brain tissues are sensitive to fluorides." [ 28 ]

Other Chinese studies support the work by Li [ 29 ]. Since fluoride levels
in the body are cumulative, and fluoride intake lowers intelligence, the
end result is a population with little ability to evolve, or for that
matter with little ability to recognize or challenge tyranny. Since many
countries have banned fluoridation [ 30 ], and those countries are the
same ones who have less tendency to dominate the population than the ones
who do fluoridate, the picture is becoming clear. Since studies which
claim that fluorides prevent cavities are contracted by parties with a
conflict of interest, and there is no credible scientific evidence to
suggest that it does [ 31 ], one can only conclude that there is another
purpose for fluorides to be added to the water and food. One of the many
reasons they can get away with this is because of the paradoxical effect
of the effect of toxins on biological systems. There is not a linear
dose-response relationship [ 32 ]. What this means is that a small amount
of fluoride concentration has a great effect. Orthodox media and science
tells the public that a linear effect is the only observable phenomena.
They're lying. Meanwhile, social behavior getting more bizarre, producing
crime ... and requiring a calculated totalitarian response. As the total
accumulation of fluorides is approaching a toxic level, we see all sorts
of phyiological phenomena in progress. Even gastrointestinal problems and
acid-stomach is produced by fluoridated water [ 33 ].



Use of Fluorides By the Nazi's and Soviets

Get ready for a shock. Fluorides have already been used in the 20th
century for the purpose of deliberately making populations submissive and
less likely to question authority.

At the end of the World War II, the United States Government sent Charles
E. Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and
pathology, to take charge of the vast I.G. Farben chemical plants in
Germany [ 34 ]. While there, Perkins was told by German chemists of a
scheme which had been worked out by them during the war and adopted by the
German General Staff, which was to control the population in any given
area through mass medication of drinking water [ 35 ]. In this scheme,
sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place. Repeated doses of infinitesmal
amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an indivdual's power to resist
domination by slowly poisoning and narcotising a certain area of the
brain, and will make him submissive to the will of those who wish to
govern him [ 36 ]. The social effect was that it made it more difficult
for a person to defend his freedom. Both the Germans and Soviets (1940)
added sodium fluoride to the drinking water of prisoners of war to make
them stupid and docile [ 37 ]. It is also a well known fact among breeders
of purebred bulls that the administration of fluorides makes the bull more
submissive and easier to handle [ 38 ].

According to Senator Ambruster in his magnificent tome Treason's Peace -
German Dyes and American Dupes (1947), one of the largest producers of
fluorides as a hazardous waste by-product was the Aluminium Company of
America (ALCOA), who had a 1931 agreement with I.G. Farben in Germany, as
did Dow Chemical Company (1933) to restrict American production of
materials vital to the U.S. war effort. Other companies such as Imperial
Chemical Industries (ICI, England), DuPont, Standard Oil (Rockefeller, who
contributed war materials and money to Hitler), American Cyanamid and
Sterling-Winthrop-Bayer were Farben associates. Indictments were filed
against several of these companies on January 30, 1941, covering
conspiracy, but inside forces spent so much effort at softening up the
Justice Department (which is still corrupt today) to prevent prosecution
that by April 15, 1942, all the defendants pleaded nolo contendre ("oh,
well, what if we did?") and paid fines of $25,000 each. It is also a fact
that I.G. Farben itself was indicted, but the case never came to court.
Some of Farben's leading subsidiaries in the U.S. were General Aniline and
Film (GAF), American I.G., and Bayer, but it was their associate ALCOA
which figured prominently in the introduction of fluoride wastes from
aluminum production (difficult of dispose of), quickly joined by LCI
(Florida) and other fertilizer industries who had fluoride by-products
classified by the EPA as hazardous waste [ 39 ].

According to scientist Charles Perkins, in a 1954 letter to the Lee
Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

"We are told by the fanatical ideologists who are advocating the
fluoridation of the water supplies in this country that their purpose is
to reduce the incidence of tooth decay in children, and it is the
plausibility of this excuse, plus the gullability of the public and the
cupidity of public officials that this is responsible for the present
spread of artificial water fluoridation in this country. However, and I
want to make this very definite and very positive: the real reason behind
water fluoridation is not to benefit children's teeth. If this were the
real reason, there are many ways in which it could be done that are much
easier, cheaper and far more effective. The real purpose behind water
fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination,
control and loss of liberty. When the Nazis decided to go into Poland, the
German General Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific
and military ideas, plans and personnel, and also the sheme of mass
control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian Communists
because it fitted ideally into their plan to Communize the world. I say
this with all earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spend
nearly 20 years research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and
pathology of fluorine -- any person who drinks artificially fluoridated
water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same
person, mentally or physically." [ 40 ]