American public health professional Daniel Stockin writes to the Kapiti Coast District Council:

I have personally learned that most health and medical authorities unfortunately do not know some of the most basic and fundamental truths about fluorides and fluoridation. Most in good conscience truly believe fluoridation is beneficial. But very few doctors or dentists have actually read the most recent toxicity data on fluorides and fluoridation. 

 

In the U.S., when water districts confront the fluoridation issue, they don't know who to believe. So they say, "We'll check with our County Health Department." The County Health Dept then says, "We don't have in-house expertise on staff, so we'll check with the State Health Department." The State Health Dept. says, "It's not our mission to have staff for this, and we don't do research on it. We rely on the Centers for Disease Control." And then we see that within CDC, whole-body impacts and concerns about fluorides are assessed by the CDC Oral Health Department - which has expertise in Oral Health, not whole-body health, and they have a vested interest in promoting fluoridation.

 

So over the years has arisen a chain of "deferred expertise," which has resulted in a few key people in the CDC telling the States, the Counties, and Water Districts --- and even the rest of the world -- what to think about fluorides ... and they also write and disseminate the talking points for doctors.

 

The bottom line is this: the 2006 National Research Council report on fluorides documented literally volumes of BASIC, fundamental research on fluoridation that was never performed. So CDC's claim that 60 years of research shows fluoridation to be safe is patently false. And the lawyers here are waking up to this fact. As an example, see the "fluoride questionnaire" at this "toxic tort" law firm in Washington DC: www.nidellaw.com

 

I would suggest asking the "experts" how they can control the dose of fluorides people (including babies, kidney patients, and seniors) will receive from fluoridated water. The answer is: there is no control of dose possible, and this of course violates fundamental, modern principles of toxicology and pharmacology. 

 

It's sometimes hard to grasp that our doctors and dentists can have missed something this big, this toxic, for this long. But yet our history in the U.S. is full of examples where this kind of thing happened...such as what happened with lead in gasoline and paint, what happened with CDC missing the formaldehyde concerns for residents in Hurricane Katrina trailers, etc. When "experts" try to tell you that fluoridation is safe, simply think of this one example: when you give an 8-ounce glass of fluoridated water to a 7-month-old baby and the same 8-ounce glass of water to a very large man, they each receive the same dose of fluoride in the water, regardless of their body weight or medical history. Common sense tells us this cannot be good medicine, good science, or good ethics.

 

The house of cards that is water fluoridation is wobbling and about to collapse. Please see our website: www.SpotsOnMyTeeth.com - you will see that the teeth staining and disfigurement from fluorides is the "Achilles heel" of fluoridation that will play a big part in the collapse. I speak with great sadness about how my colleages and peers in public health have handled this matter of fluoridation. It saddens me that for fear of lawsuits, they have allowed fluoridation to continue. But the world is not flat, and water fluoridation is NOT safe.

 

Daniel G. Stockin, MPH

The Lillie Center Inc.

P.O. Box 839 Ellijay GA 30540  USA