Thursday, August 5, 2010

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Fluoride in water is a government sponsored hazardous waste disposal program. Fluoridation is unethical because: •It violates the individual's right to informed consent to medication. •The municipality cannot control the dose of the patient. •The municipality cannot track each individual's response. •It ignores the fact that some people are more vulnerable to fluoride's toxic effects than others. Some people will suffer while others may benefit. •It violates the Nuremberg code for human experimentation. As stated by the recent recipient of the Nobel Prize for Medicine (2000), Dr. Arvid Carlsson: "I am quite convinced that water fluoridation, in a not-too-distant future, will be consigned to medical history.. "No physician in his right senses would prescribe for a person he has never met, whose medical history he does not know, a substance which is intended to create bodily change, with the advice: 'Take as much as you like, but you will take it for the rest of your life because some children suffer from tooth decay. ' It is a preposterous notion." Fluoridation is unnecessary because: •Children can have perfectly good teeth without being exposed to fluoride. •The promoters (CDC, 1999, 2001) admit that the benefits are topical not systemic, so fluoridated toothpaste, which is universally available, is a more rational approach to delivering fluoride to the target organ (teeth) while minimizing exposure to the rest of the body. •The vast majority of <b>...</b>
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