Fluoridation

Press, 26 September 1980, Page 12

Fluoridation

Sir, — C. Goodall’s paper, •“Fluoridation and, cancer mortality in N.Z.” refers to the fact that “the U. S.> National Cancer Institute'?, .. .

gave- a wrongly high 1970 cancer mortality in one of the- unfluoridated cities .’.. . to the independent assessors.” Such lack of integrity in high places is one of the worrying aspects of ' the ?..fluoride controversy. An article called “The Compulsory Poison” in the August 1980 “Penthouse” magazine claims that Dutch coriiparisons of people in unfluoridated and fluoridated areas have revealed in the latter increases in stomach

pains, nausea, headaches and troubles in mental cphcentratiori. Such reductions in the quality of life rather than actual death are what one would expect from compelling people to take more than a thousandth of a fatal dose of a deadly poison every day. Since one effect of drinking fluoridated water

is said. to be “excessive thirst” this dosage would be multiplied .. several times with some people. ™ Yours, etc MARK D. SADLER, September 22, 1980. Sir, — We pay rates to, among other things, get a ’supply of fresh, pure water, from our respective councils. Should we have to fork out a further $3OO-$4OO for a laboratory : water ' purifier (cheaper ones only remoye 60-80 per cent of the fluoride ions) to counter the impurities the councils add in . their, attempts to massmedicate us? It is like the council playing music (music they like, i.e. “good music”) over massive loudspeakers to “give the citizens, their right to culture”. If we objected we could wear ear muffs. Why cannot these accursed , and übiquitous government and local body officials leave us to run our own Jives and stop constantly, ramming their own pet ’fixed’ideas down our throats using our money. — Yours, etc., L.A. HUNT. September 21, 1980. i . - [A letter under this head-; ing from Peter D. Jamieson printed on September 24 missed, a word from the first sentence, which should/have read: “ . . . the mechanism by which an ion exchange resin removes foreign:. ions from- water, and . discover that ' water containing charged ions, such as flupride, has a much higher conductivity than deionised water.”]: : < ;