From darlene@caribsurf.com Thu Jan 27 08:36:33 2000 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:55:42 -0500 From: Darlene Sherrell Subject: Re: Oh My! Hip Fractures Don't forget the map in the World Health Organization's "Fluorides and Human Health" (1970) which shows that most of the water supplies in the endemic areas of India contained only 1-3 ppm at that time. Furthermore, the most impressive and believable citation for brittle bones is the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in "Review of Fluoride Benefits and Risks" (1991) They state very clearly that fluoride makes enamel more porous and bones more brittle. If the New England Journal of Medicine was willing to publish a paper saying that graduating from high school is more likely to keep you from dying from cancer than anything else, we have to accept the fact that peer review is nonexistent. I know of no exceptions. We must expect to see things like this Lancet article popping up all over. The authors are almost guaranteed to get grant money for a study with a foregone pro-fluoridation conclusion. While we're arguing about this side issue, however, the core of the problem goes unaddressed. Virtually all of the public health programs currently in the works were based on recommendations from the Institute of Medicine, National Research Council. They used the wrong figures for their calculations. It's an error just as bad as Hodge's error with Roholm's data. By doctoring the figures, they're trying to prove that fluoride intake has always been as high as it is today, with the exception of dental products or supplements. It's they only way anyone can present a logical argument for protecting the poor children whose parents can't be relied on to provide these sources in a non-fluoridated area. If we can force a correction of this simple error in arithmetic, fluoridation will be a thing of the past. Think about it.