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FLUORIDE EXPERT APOLOGIZES FOR
PUSHING
POISON
DR. HARDY LIMEBACK'S APOLOGY
Dear All,
Jeff green forwarded us this article, and says: We had pre-arranged with Barry
Forbes to obtain his permission to reproduce this column throughout the world.
We hope that if you find his writing style and the specific text of this column
as persuasive as we have, that you will
consider having this article reproduced as a guest column in your favorite (or
previously ungrateful) media outlet. Thank you Barry and Hardy.
We also urge you to send a copy to your
local dentist, doctor, decisionmaker and any one else you can think of. Let's
get this message around the world.
Paul Connett.
Prominent researcher
apologizes for
pushing fluoride
by Barry Forbes
The Tribune, Mesa, AZ
Sunday, December 5, 1999
Reproduced With Permission
"Why'd you do it, Doc? Why'd you toss the
fluoride
folks overboard?"
I had just tracked down Dr. Hardy Limeback, B.Sc., Ph.D., in Biochemistry, D.D.S.,
head of the Department of Preventive Dentistry for the University of Toronto,
and president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research.
Dr. Limeback is Canada's leading
fluoride
authority and, until recently, the country's primary promoter of the
controversial additive.
In a surprising newsmaker interview this past April, Dr. Limeback announced a
dramatic change of heart. "Children under three should never use fluoridated
toothpaste," he counseled. "Or drink fluoridated water. And baby formula must
never be made up using Toronto tap water. Never."
Why, I wondered? What could have caused such a powerful paradigm shift?
"It's been building up for a couple of years," Limeback told me during a recent
telephone interview. "But certainly the crowning blow was the realization that
we have been dumping contaminated
fluoride
into water reservoirs for half a century. The vast majority of all
fluoride
additives come from Tampa Bay, Florida, smokestack scrubbers. The additives are
a toxic byproduct of the super-phosphate fertilizer industry."
"Tragically," he continued, "that means we're not just dumping toxic
fluoride
into our drinking water. We're also exposing innocent, unsuspecting people to
deadly elements of lead, arsenic and radium, all of them carcinogenic. Because
of the cumulative properties of toxins, the detrimental effects on human health
are catastrophic."
A recent study at the University of Toronto confirmed Dr. Limeback's worst
fears. "Residents of cities that fluoridate have double the
fluoride
in their hip bones vis-a-vis the balance of the population. Worse, we discovered
that fluoride
is actually altering the basic architecture of human bones."
Skeletal fluorosis is a debilitating condition that occurs when
fluoride
accumulates in bones, making them extremely weak and brittle. The earliest
symptoms?
"Mottled and brittle teeth," Dr. Limeback told me. "In Canada we are now
spending more money treating dental fluorosis than we do treating cavities. That
includes my own practice."
One of the most obvious living experiments today, Dr. Limeback believes, is a
proof-positive comparison between any two Canadian cities. "Here in Toronto
we've been fluoridating for 36 years. Yet Vancouver - which has never
fluoridated - has a cavity rate lower than Toronto's." And, he pointed out,
cavity rates are low all across the industrialized world including Europe, which
is 98% fluoride
free. Low because of improved standards of living, less refined sugar, regular
dental checkups, flossing and frequent brushing. Now less than 2 cavities per
child Canada-wide, he said. "I don't get it, Doc. Last month, the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) ran a puff piece all across America saying the stuff was
better than sliced bread.
What's the story?" "Unfortunately," he
replied, "the CDC is basing its position on data that is 50 years old, and
questionable at best. Absolutely no one has done research on fluorosilicates,
which is the junk they're dumping into the drinking water."
"On the other hand," he added, "the evidence against systemic
fluoride
in-take continues to pour in."
"But Doc, the dentists."
"I have absolutely no training in toxicity," he stated firmly. "Your
well-intentioned dentist is simply following 50 years of misinformation from
public health and the dental association. Me, too. Unfortunately, we were
wrong."
Last week, Dr. Hardy Limeback addressed his faculty and students at the
University of Toronto, Department of Dentistry. In a poignant, memorable meetng,
he apologized to those gathered before him.
"Speaking as the head of preventive dentistry, I told them that I had
unintentionally mislead my colleagues and my students. For the past 15 years, I
had refused to study the toxicology information that is readily available to
anyone. Poisoning our children was the furthest thing from my mind."
"The truth," he confessed to me, "was a bitter pill to swallow. But swallow it I
did."
South of the border, the paradigm shift has yet to dawn. After half a century of
delusion, the CDC, American Dental Association and Public Health stubbornly and
skillfully continue to manipulate public opinion in favor of fluoridation.
Meantime, study after study is delivering the death knell of the deadly toxin.
Sure, fuoridation will be around for a long time yet, but ultimately its
supporters need to ready the life rafts. The poisonous waters of doubt and
confusion are bound to get choppier.
"Are lawsuits inevitable?" I asked the good doctor. "Remember tobacco," was his
short, succinct reply. Welcome, Dr. Hardy Limeback, to the far side of the
fluoride
equation. It's lonely over here, but in our society loneliness and truth
frequently travel hand in hand. Thank you for the undeniable courage of your
convictions.
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