Case for fluoridation based on outdated science from 1940s

ring so true following the news that the fluoridation of our water supplies is to be abandoned.

This is not just because it is a flawed scheme, based upon the faulty science and sales spin of the 1940s which gave us “smoking is good for you”, that leaded petrol gives your car better performance, that DDT is great for killing pests and asbestos is a super building material.

Not because significant and lengthy public objections have been voiced for more than 50 years.

No, it is because owing to the coalition cuts and the demise of the PCTs and Strategic Health Authorities, it would be too expensive to implement by cashstrapped local authorities.

The pro-fluoride lobby is apparently still unable to admit that they have been duped by American commercial spin and flawed science.

Still, the important news is that the plan has been abandoned and for that we must be grateful. Let us hope it is never revived.

According to author Chris Bryson’s book The Fluoride Deception, the fabled “one part per million is safe” soundbite was first decreed by American scientist Harold Hodge in the 1940s. Although a respected figure, Hodge apparently went on to join an experimental programme at Rochester University, injecting people with plutonium and uranium to observe any benefits or ill effects! It is clear that in the light of current knowledge, what was considered acceptable in the past has been found to be unacceptable today, that is, it seems, with the exception of fluoride.

Bryson’s book, which can be read online, is worth a read to illustrate how the public and indeed professional “experts”

can be duped. Perhaps in future, fluoridation will come to be seen in retrospect as a similar folly to the use of the toxic substances mentioned above.

Thanks must go to David Crausby MP for his unceasing commitment to the opposition of fluoridation, and his communications to those of us who signed his own petition some years ago.

Frank Holstead Egerton