Oppose dental conscription

[Viewpoint: Hamilton Spectator, 18th July 2002.]

By GLEN WALKER, chairman, The Anti-Fluoridation Association of Victoria

THE City of Hamilton is recorded in Victorian fluoridation history.

The official Hamilton poll in 1971 voted 68 per cent against having their drinking water polluted with poisonous waste by-product fluoride chemical from fertilizer factories

This fluoride chemical for use in Hamilton is a crude industrial quality by-product.

If the Health Minister, John Thwaites, is a true representative of the Victorian people, holding a responsible position of trust in Parliament, he should practise democracy and not ask but provide equal finance and assistance to this association to present the "no fluoridation case" to Hamilton people - after all its our money they use to push the one sided propaganda.

The people using Glenelg Water supplies must objectively question John Thwaites quick entry into this unscientific use of a waste by-product pollutant from USA fertiliser factories.

The fluoride chemical waste by-product is sodium silicofluoride, colllected in fertiliser factory chimneys, a poisonous chemical unlawfully forced onto citizens of Victoria, because that chemical has never been registered world wide as safe for human.

Strange notion

Not only internationally and pharmaceutically unregistered, but by law is prohibited dumping in oceans, rivers, lakes and landfills, but John Thwaites wants to dump it into your drinking water supply. A strange action by a Health Minister.

He said it is important to have a 'balanced debate" but that debate confined only to his government's "informed opnion" which does not qualify as scientific or constitutional.

Logic, commonsense, and honest science are decaying factors in the government promotion of fluoridation.

The Spectator, June 27, 2002, quoted John Thwaites as saying - "scientific evidence had shown it (fluoridation) was safe."

Sadly, neither Mr Thwaites nor his Health Department, can scientifically prove sodium silicofluoride and fluoridation is a registered chemical for safe ingestion by humans.

Fluoridation is a commercial enterprise based on the selling of fluoride industrial pollutant that otherwise have no permission of disposal - except is drinking water!

The world's greatest health organisations such as the USA Food and Drug Agency have recently, at the request of US politicians, admitted never receiving an application for safety pharmaceutical registration of sodium silicofluoride as a use in fluoridation of drinking water supplies.

No proof

The National Health and Medical Research Council have been requested to prove scientifically that fluoridation is safe for humans, but failed to supply.

The same request to the World Health Organisation also failed - they could not supply scientific evidence of safety.

The people of Hamilton will be bomb-blasted with government and dental propaganda similar to other Victorian towns, but on examination one finds their science has more caries (holes) than a fly-wire door.

The Ministers own Department of Health has made their fluoride propaganda look quite silly when the Health Department supplied large coloured posters on exhibition outside dentists' rooms claiming: "There is a better way - seal kids' teeth against decay."

Mr Thwaites own department gives the big lie to fluoridation results. All government school dental clinics as normal practice put seals on children's teeth and yet at the same time claim fluoridation has stopped tooth decay.

Their propaganda is based on: add fluoride to your drinking water supplies and, hey presto no more dental decay and no further use of dentists.

Since fluoridation commenced in Australia dentists have increased by over 80 per cent, hundreds of dental nurses, dental hygienists, dental therapists, school dental clinics and now after 30-40 years of fluoridation in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth each city is building a large new dental hospital.

Ask the reasons

If you believe Mr Thwaites you must ask him to answer reasons on the above paragraph also why only four per cent of world population use fluoridation and all by compulsion - no freedom of the people.

Fluoridation has no place for freedom of the people, called democracy.

The claim of fluoridation propaganda, that dentists' work is "shrinking" because of fluoridation, is untrue.

Dentists now rate second highest is the professional income bracket, possibly because the government changed the Title Act, allowing dentists to call themselves "doctor" without the otherwise necessary academic University qualification, mandatory on others, in the country. Why are dentists and no other person with a Bachelor's degree allowed to present themselves as a doctor, the highest degree in a University?

It is an excellent commercial sales ploy, but rather misleading the public into believing dentists are academically qualified doctors.

Dr Philip Sutton, Doctor of Dental Science DDS, describes fluoridation - "fluoridation the greatest fraud", and Professor Albert Schatz, discoverer of the wonder drug, Streptomycin, and the man responsible for fluoridation being removed in Chile 1977, and his description of fluoridation "the Greatest fraud of of the century."

Schatz would hold one of the highest medical world awards.

A recent Nobel Prize winner in 2000, Professor Arvid Carlsson, pharmacologist at the University of Gothenburg, was also responsible for the discontinuation of fluoridation in Sweden 1969. It has never been restarted.

Not in Europe

Dentists and the government never make public the fact that European countries do not use fluoridation as compelled in Australia, there is no fluoridation in Europe.

The actual fact is that only four per cent of world population use fluoridation. That means 96 per cent of world population do not use fluoridation.

Australia belongs to the sadly scientifically misled four per cent, leaving the scientifically advanced European countries free of fluoride polluted water.

The sodium silicofluoride pollutant used is Melbourne drinking water is described by the World Health Organisation in their book "Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Humans": "Insecticide, fungicide, bactericide, a rodenticide (rat poison) to worm pigs, as an insecticide in lawns, shrubs, carpeting, woollen fabrics," (all to kill).

Fluoride is also the important chemical in Sarin war gas. Under "Effects on intermediary metabolism," WHO states: "As in animals certain enzymes in human tissues are inhibited by fluoride."

This is what the ADA considers a natural product. Any one forcing people to drink an enzyme inhibitor is a danger to humanity.

Waste product

The truth is that sodium silicofluoride has never been found as a natural component of natural water, it is an industrial waste product unable to be scientifically classified as natural.

Actually children drink very little water, and as the ADA claim it is for children, the amount of fluoride polluted water used in a town like Hamilton for children amounts to no more than one per cent of the treated water; the rest is used on gardens, industry and sewerage etc.

A great economical action of waste together with the consideration of where all the poisonous fluoride accumulates.

The government cannot state the actual dose of fluoride per person per day because of the extreme variability of each person's daily water drinking habits, or requirements. There is no scientific medical dose.

The fluoride chemical for use in Hamilton water is sodium silicofluoride, a poisonous waste by product collected as a pollutant from chimneys of USA fertiliser factories making superphosphate (not a natural product).

Brisbane is not fluoridated and their children's teeth are better than fluoridated Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Last year the Brisbane Council elected a committee to examine fluoridation. The committee of 17 were mostly doctors, dentists and Health Department people.

After a year of investigation they voted not to commence fluoridation in Brisbane drinking water supplies.

No evidence

They found no scientific evidence to cause them to vote for fluoridation.

The longest Australian fluoridation state is Tasmania, fluoridated 1953, that is 50 years fluoridation. Last year the president of the ADA stated: "there is a dental crisis is Tasmania, more dentists are needed."

Remember your democratic rights under the Australian constitution where it states, "no dental conscription".

Compulsory fluoridation is dental conscription.