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The Fluoride Deception Paperback – March 7, 2006

by Christopher Bryson (Author), Theo Colborn (Foreword)
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With the narrative punch of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action and the commitment to environmental truth-telling of Erin Brockovich, The Fluoride Deception documents a powerful connection between big corporations, the U.S. military, and the historic reassurances of fluoride safety provided by the nation’s public health establishment. The Fluoride Deception reads like a thriller, but one supported by two hundred pages of source notes, years of investigative reporting, scores of scientist interviews, and archival research in places such as the newly opened files of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Energy Commission. The book is nothing less than an exhumation of one of the great secret narratives of the industrial era: how a grim workplace poison and the most damaging environmental pollutant of the cold war was added to our drinking water and toothpaste.
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"Whether you are for or against, or even neutral on water fluoridation, you owe it to yourself to read The Fluoride Deception. By chapter 3 you’ll find the arguments against water fluoridation compelling.  The book is well written, and reads like a very good fiction novel." —The Water Exchange

"[Bryson's] research and consummate writing skill bring to light the shocking story of more than six decades of fluoride cover-up and deception. ... [He] presents its case in such a brilliant way and with such literary skill that it stands a good chance of becoming a cause célèbre for the general public to protest and demand action." —Washington Free Press

"This shocking anthology of incriminating stories and scientific discoveries is a must read for every consumer who owns a toothbrush." —E Magazine

"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 for Medicine

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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Stories Press; 1st edition (March 7, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1583227008
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1583227008
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.09 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.14 inches
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L. Roberts
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
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So far, I've just read the introduction, and it's chock full of information. Can't wait to read the rest. It's going to take a while, but it's not the least bit boring. It confirms my suspicions about fluoride.
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drewximus
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book. One small problem though...
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This has got to be one of the most thoroughly researched and presented books I have ever read.

That being said, I have one small gripe about the way Bryson categorizes all fluorides together as if they were one chemical, as someone who understands very basic chemistry. A fluoride is any compound containing the element fluorine, all of which are distinctly different chemicals (though they are primarily all poisonous, since fluorine is the most reactive element on the periodic table and therefore the most useful to industry, but also most destructive to organic life). Are they all the same? That is like saying that table salt and household bleach are the same thing, since they are both chlorides (both contain chlorine). Try sprinkling household bleach on your food to see how that works out. Notable fluorides are sodium fluoride, fluosilicic acid (most commonly added to water supplies, and a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer production in Florida -- the stuff they scrub from the smokestacks) CFCs and freon, even Prozac and Paxil, etc. Paxil is poisinous, but it won't exactly melt your skin off the way uranium hexafluoride will (at least not in the short term. Who knows what its long term effects are). All are poisonous to varying degrees, but are all lumped together as "fluoride" even though they are all distinctly different chemicals and thus have distinctly different toxicities. Bryson says in his intro that he does this in the interest of simplifying things, but you can't do a study on "fluoride," you have to treat each individual chemical for what it is, a different chemical. I have yet to find a single study on fluosilicic acid and its effects on the brain and nervous system, yet they are injecting it into our water supply! I believe that lumping all of these chemicals in one group is purposefully done and serves to confuse people, politicians and dentists alike into not caring where it comes from, thinking it is all the same.
Critics say that fluoride is found naturally in water supplies, and this is misleading. Calcium fluoride is found naturally, not fluosilicic acid, which is the manmade byproduct toxic slush we are putting in our water supply. Both are poisonous, but both are also distinctly different. I am surprised nobody has asked this question or brought this up in all of the research I have done. Somebody please correct me if I am wrong here...
Still, great book. Water fluoridation must end regardless of the fluorine compound used.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Life Saver (though America doesn't know it yet)
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2008
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It's all about a substance that has been placed in our municipal tap water for the last sixty years. It is classified as a non-approved drug, but is prescribed to everyone without our consent, without public debate, and without dosage instructions for each individual. It amounts to mass medication without consent. This is the main reason that 98 percent of Europe will not fluoridate. In fact, most of the industrialized countries of the world do not fluoridate. And, statistically, their oral health is just as good as in the U. S..
Extremely detailed and thoroughly researched, this book cannot be recommended more highly. Bryson spent ten years digging into the dark depths of government and industrial deception to produce an eye opening revelation concerning the health of everyone who is a victim of the risky practice of fluoridation.
Upon reading the information in this book, I personally visited the Fluoride Action Network on the internet to discover a treasure trove of detailed information, both scientific and popular about fluoride, its politics, and its adverse health effects, and how to reduce exposure to the substance (which proves to be quite difficult).
However, nothing convinced me more solidly than my personal experience. Once I had reduced my exposure to fluoride for only a week (by distilling our tap water and using "organic" foods when possible), twenty-five years worth of "mysterious" symptoms that had confounded my doctors simply went away, ..... vanished. My symptoms were diagnosed as depression, arthritic pains, muscle aches that really shouldn't have been there, cloudy thinking, and several other problems that came and went as drugs were prescribed to mask each new symptom. But, nothing worked as well as simply drinking clean, pure water. (I found out later that it is estimated that about five percent of the population is particularly sensitive to very low doses of fluoride. I can only guess that perhaps I am one of the five percent).
I have spoken with expert toxicologists both corporate and with the EPA. They have all confirmed what Bryson explains in this book. In fact, the union that represents the EPA's scientists and workers in Washington, D. C. continues to publicly recommend that all fluoridation of municipal water systems be stopped. This is in direct opposition to the stance taken by the administration of the EPA.
Despite being painted as crazies and loonies by the pro-fluoridation corporate and governmental lobby, I can tell you that all of the people I have met who are working against fluoridation are intelligent, forthright, and not willing to be led like sheep when they feel an injustice is being done to others. Rather than dedicating time to deriding the credentials of their opponents, they use logic and scientific evidence to patiently explain why fluoridation should be stopped. They really care.
I sincerely hope that Christopher Bryson's thoughtful exposition will find its place as one of America's finest exposures and examples of how science and the truth can be distorted and twisted by money and influence until even the experts are convinced that something inherently dangerous is safe for everyone, no matter what the dose.
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Jean michel vinet
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2021
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Well researched book
The author starts from the beginning and explains the history.
After reading this, you will know for sur that fluoride is poison.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
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If all the evidence printed here is true which I believe it to be, then adding fluoride to water should be stopped immediately. Though their appears some benefit to preventing tooth decay when using fluoride their also appears as much evidence for better oral hygiene to be at least as good if not better than adding a proven toxin to our diet. As I am a bit of a ‘conspiracy theorist’ it would appear that the people in control of this world may have an agenda which is not beneficial to the general population but ensures that people are made ill so that vested interests can make ever increasing profits from treatments and other spin offs related to health. The more I read books such as this one I am more convinced that the ‘New World Order’ and it’s drive for the eventual total ‘Globalisation’ of this beautiful planet that we live on will not be of benefit to the hoy palloy but benefit those nebulous individuals who believe that they know best and in some twisted way may even think that we will benefit from their tinkering.
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EB51
5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly researched and reads as a crime novel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2021
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Chris Bryson knows more about the history of Fluoride than possibly anyone else. If you ever had any questions around this topic they will be answered and more, leaving you shocked and disillusioned at the collusion between big industrial giants and the federal medical agencies. I was sickened and bought a reverse osmosis water filter immediately.
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Sheltagar
5.0 out of 5 stars Get informed
Reviewed in Canada on August 17, 2018
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Wow.. JESUS will judge these wicked people in the end
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Jennifer Marett
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great book. A must read for anyone living in ...
Reviewed in Canada on May 16, 2015
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This is a great book. A must read for anyone living in a community that fluoridates their municipal water. Everyone who works in the health field should also read it.
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