The Fluoride Deception

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-03-07
Publisher(s): Seven Stories Press
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Summary

"It is my sincere hope that Christopher Bryson's apparently thorough and comprehensive perusal of the scientific literature on the biological actions of fluoride and the ensuing debates through the years will receive the attention it deserves and that its implications will be seriously considered."-Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine "The Fluoride Deception reads like a whodunit. . . .We are left with compelling evidence that powerful interests with high financial stakes have colluded to prematurely close honest discussion and investigation into fluoride toxicity."-Chemical & Engineering News "Previous authors have presented the idea of a deception, if not an outright conspiracy, involving fluoride. What makes Bryson's book unique is that it is an up-to-date account supported by indisputable new evidence in the form of declassified correspondence and exhumation of buried studies."-Fluoride "As with landmark titles, such as Silent Spring, Bryson's book is bound to become a seminal volume."-British Columbia Naturopathic Association With the narrative punch of Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action and the commitment to environmental truth-telling of Erin Brockovich, The Fluoride Deception leads us on a terrifying journey through the history of the industrial use of fluoride, a chemical substance that has risen steadily in status from a deadly environmental pollutant responsible for injuring thousands to a key component in the development of the atomic bomb to a staple ingredient in toothpaste and drinking water all across the United States. Christopher Bryson is an award-winning investigative reporter and television producer. After reporting on Guatemalan Army human rights abuses from Central America in the late 1980s for the BBC World Service, National Public Radio, and The Atlanta Constitution, he then won a George Polk Award as part of the Jonathan Kwitny investigative team on public television's The Kwitny Report.

Author Biography

CHRISTOPHER BRYSON is an award-winning investigative reporter and a television producer. He covered Guatemalan Army human rights abuses from Central America in the late 1980's for the BBC World Service, National Public Radio and The Atlanta Constitution. He was part of the investigative team that won a George Polk Award and Sidney Hillman Prize with Jonathan Kwitny at Public Television's The Kwitny Report. Bryson's reporting for The Manchester Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, Lingua Franca and the BBC has included investigations of David Duke's Nazi past, NASA's nuclear payloads, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, and CIA links to Radio Free Europe. In 1998 he was part of a team that won a National Headliner award for a History Channel documentary on the bombing of Pan Am flight 103. He lives in New York City with his wife Molly and son Owen.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Theo Colborn vii
Note on Terminology x
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction to the Paperback Edition xiv
Introduction xxiii
Major Figures in the Fluoride Story xxxi
1 Through the Looking Glass
1(10)
2 Fireworks at Forsyth
11(19)
3 Opposite Sides of the Atlantic
30(15)
4 General Groves's Problem
45(20)
5 General Groves's Solution: Dr. Harold Hodge and the University of Rochester
65(13)
6 How the Manhattan Project Sold Us Fluoride: Newburgh, Harshaw, and Jim Conant's Ruse
78(13)
7 A Subterranean Channel of Secret-Keeping
91(10)
8 Robert Kehoe and The Kettering Laboratory
101(13)
9 Donora: A Rich Man's Hocus Pocus
114(19)
10 The Public Health Service Investigation 133(15)
11 Vital to Our National Life As a Spark Plug to a Motor Car 148(10)
12 Engineering Consent 158(10)
13 Showdown in the West: Martin vs. Reynolds Metals 168(8)
14 Fluorine Lawyers and Government Dentists: "A Very Worthwhile Contribution" 176(8)
15 Buried Science, Buried Workers 184(18)
16 Hurricane Creek: The People Rule 202(15)
17 The Damage Is Done 217(13)
Epilogue: Blind to the Truth? 230(10)
Postscript: Dr. Arvid Carlsson, 2000 Nobel Laureate 240(2)
Note on Sources 242(5)
Notes 247(113)
Index 360

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