Forced Medication

To The Eagle,

I’m not a dentist. I look at the water fluoridation issue from a chemical perspective. My research at University of Calif & Stanford opened my doors to the world of agrichemicals. Fluoride based chemicals are the waste products of phosphate, aluminum and steel industries. As a highly toxic byproduct, there are large disposal costs. To curb costs, fluoride was marketed to the dental industry as a safe treatment to prevent cavities. Industrial attorneys and marketing programs were highly successful (E. Bernays, R. Kehoe, H. Hodge). The same marketers also led campaigns promoting smoking, lead addition to gasoline and use of asbestos. At the same time, whistleblowers well known in fluorine chemical toxicology and neurobiology, were fired or defunded (w. Marcus-EPA, G. Walbot, P. Mullenix and many more).

Hundreds of scientific articles have concluded that fluoridation of public drinking water, globally, does not benefit oral health over non treated water. E.g., data show an increase from three to 44 percent in fluorosis (white to brown streaks in teeth, lower IQ and fluorine interferes with thyroid metabolism.

To envision the total fluoridation picture, one needs to add water sources: drinking, cooking and bathing, toothpaste products, swimming pools, restaurant, coffee/tea shops.

Another source, closer to my research, J. Pscheidt (2024 OSU) published “Fluorine Toxicity in Plants.” He describes that irrigation using fluoridated water on crops, landscape and indoor plants can have toxic effects on species tested (e.g., blueberries, corn, grape, lily, pine, tulip, spider plant, yucca, etc). This begs the question to all of you backyard vegetable gardeners irrigating with fluoridated water-those crops take up fluorine, so add food to the source list. Vote no on public water fluoridation.

Judith Johnson,

Rosburg