When I was young I was the administrative assistant to the Chief Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, (for three months) acting administrative officer in charge of six offices, recruiting law clerks, taking care of the library, preparing the budget, reviewing the opinions to see that the citations were pertinent and accurate, purchasing office supplies, furniture, equipment, arranging leases, etc. .. later I worked for the American Business Men's Research Foundation, a 501c3 working on educational material involving beverage alcohol -- we provided schools and others with materials and helped bring recognition to the fetal alcohol syndrome. When my younger daughter, Julie, was born I had problems with nursing (I had consumed a great deal of iced tea during the pregnancy) and when her physician put her on formula, she reacted violently. The only thing she could keep down was a powdered formula, which I mixed with fluoridated water -- not being AWARE at the time. As a result, she experienced a spontaneous fracture of her ankle while in the third grade. She was standing still in front of me at the time. Her x-rays had a swiss cheese appearance which the radiologist said was common and didn't mean anything. Her thyroid enlarged and returned to normal several times around puberty, and by the age of 17 she had developed thyroid cancer. Her baby teeth crumbled within 30 minutes of coming out of her mouth. She also had difficulties with the usual immunizations. In 1976 I heard bad words about fluoride. She was ten by then, but I had saved her teeth and a piece of her jaw which came out with one of the teeth. The x-rays were still available, so when I saw similar x-rays in the journal articles about skeletal fluorosis I contacted her doctor. He was shocked to learn that 1. no laboratory in the country would do an analysis of the tissue samples (because, he said, "they didn't want to get involved") and 2. he discovered that no agency at the city, county, state, or national level would take a report of fluoride poisoning. I established my own 501c3 and began publishing a newsletter and organizing classes to teach people how to feed themselves with organic gardens, etc. and taught classes arranged by the extension service at Michigan State University. I spent several months at M.S.U. in 1976 reading every article available from 1930 to 1976. However, since I did not go to college, I didn't know about the indexing service, so pulled each volume off the shelf one at a time, searching the index at the back for the word fluoride. I found several articles that are not included in the index, and found that the abstracts used by the health department come from the Kettering Lab and do not agree with the originals. With this evidence, I was able to convince several state legislators, and the director of the Michigan Department of Public Health that we had a problem. I managed to bring about repeal of the state mandatory fluoridation law. The director gave interviews to the local newspapers saying my concern was legitimate. Then he quit and took another job within the department. Several years later, while I was in Florida, I began writing to the National Academy of Sciences regarding the 20-80 mg/day figures they use in estimating the quantity of fluoride necessary to produce crippling skeletal fluorosis... after two years they admitted the source was Roholm, and with that, I was able to force them to change their figures. Unfortunately, no one seems to have noticed. My goal now is to do whatever I can to educate people about fluoride, so that they begin to put it in the same light shed on lead or any other poison. I believe the time has come for a growing awareness.
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Roholm
There was nothing wrong with Kaj Roholm's work -- the problem
was that Hodge (NAS/NRC) made an error in arithmetic in applying
Roholm's data to a typical range in body weight -- Roholm has
been upheld repeatedly in the Industrial Health journals --
and in 1993, NAS/NRC had to fix the error -- abandoning the
erroneous 20 to 80 mg/day figures for crippling skeletal
fluorosis. The accurate figures are either 0.04 mg/kg/day for
55 to 96-1/4 years, or, when applied to a range in body weight
of 100 to 229 pounds, 10 to 20 mg/day for 10 to 20 years --
or 2-1/2 to 5 mg/day for 40 to 80 years. . . the total quantity
is the same, no matter how you look at it. All this is explained
in my article "Dare to Think" which is now on the InterNet at
http://www.all-natural.com/think/html.