Page 1209 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 23 August 1989
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so they are pouring millions of dollars into research to prove that fluoride works.
If anybody in the scientific area comes up with the statement that fluoride does not work, the report is not published. There is a move against the publication of the facts. It has been reported worldwide that anybody supporting fluoride is torn down by the scientific hierarchy, and it is only a few people worldwide who are perpetrating this act. The point is that we are pushed into this and we get reports written upon reports. There has been no research done on a scientific scale anywhere in the world since 1944 when this was first introduced.
It has been a political ploy all the way through. It is difficult to believe that this can be pushed through on a worldwide scale. The Western world produced this. It came from America. It came through to Australia and the UK. We were one of the first countries in the world to follow suit with respect to fluoridation. Less than one per cent of the world's population are drinking artificially fluoridated water, but here in Australia 80 per cent of people are being forced into this madness. We are doing wonders. Again we ask why.
One of the major by-products of aluminium smelting is fluoride. Thousands of tonnes of free fluoride are pushed into our air every year in Australia. The people responsible for control of pollution have not been requested to measure this, the reason being that everybody knows that fluoride is the wonder drug; it is not harmful. But if you go up to Tomago, around the aluminium smelter in Newcastle, you find there are racehorses there that cannot race any more because they have developed deformities since the plant opened. Farmers in that area have had to shift their prime stock away from the aluminium smelting plant because of the fluoride contamination. That is the fact.
Fluoride is highly poisonous, and we have been cajoled into believing that it is great for us. There is a pressure group within the aluminium smelting empire trying to perpetrate the idea that fluoride is good for you because, if they do not, they will have to close down their smelting plants. It will cost them millions of dollars to prevent the free access of fluoride into our atmosphere. That is another lobby group we have got to deal with. So we see there are vested interests right across the board.
But what about the people? That is the point. Fluoride is added as a medication, unlike chlorine. Chlorine is added to the water to kill bugs, to make it safe to drink. Fluoride is just a medication forced upon the people. As I was saying earlier, some medications, like antibiotics, have to be very closely controlled. We cannot all take the same dosage, otherwise we get sick. Here we have a medication put into the water supply at one part per million. What is the dosage? It depends on whether you play football. If little Johnny runs around or whatever
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