Chris Bryson - The Fluoride Deception (2004)

A chronicle of the abuse of power and of the manufacture of state-sponsored
medical propaganda, The Fluoride Deception reveals how military and industry
scientists and public health officials buried information about fluoride's
potential for human harm, while promoting its use in dentistry.

The Fluoride Deception reveals that fluoride pollution was the greatest
legal threat facing the wartime Manhattan Project. And the book documents
how a secretive group of powerful industries, who all faced extensive
litigation for flouride pollution, collaborated with the Institute of
Dental Research to launder flouride's image.

We'll meet the dissident scientists who warned us about fluoride from the
beginning. We'll sit with the famous doctor who'd alerted America in the
1950's to the dangers of cigarette smoking, who reported that fluoride was
a systemic poison, with tens of thousands of citizens uniquely sensitive
to even tiny doses. We'll walk the cobbled streets of Donora, Pennsylvania,
in the shrouded aftermath of the nation's most notorious air pollution
disaster in 1948, and meet the scientist who blamed -fluoride for the deaths.

Today, that scientist joins a growing number of health experts who call
fluoride a venomous and hydra-headed poison. They suspect its involvement
in a host of modern illnesses, including arthritis, bone cancer, and
emphysema, and a spectrum of central nervous system disorders such as
Alzheimer's disease and the epidemic of attention deficit disorder sweeping
America's children.

Christopher Bryson is an award-winning Columbia Journalism School-trained
investigative reporter and television producer. After reporting on
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 won a George Polk Award for work at Public Television's
The Kwitny Report. In 1998, he was part of a team that won a National
Headliner award at ABC News Productions for a History Channel documentary
on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

The Fluoride Deception
By Christopher Bryson
Published by Seven Stories Press, 2004
ISBN 1583225269, 9781583225264
374 pages

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