Friday, December 19, 2014
Legal Scholar: Fluoridation an Illegitimate Human Experiment?
"The cessation of all compulsory water fluoridation schemes should be the goal of all public health agencies, ethical lawmakers and informed citizens," argues Rita Barnett-Rose, Chapman University Associate Law Professor, (online August 2014), reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF).
Evidence of fluoride's harm is
ignored, downplayed or not studied; benefits exaggerated and informed consent
disregarded. "Claims that fluoridation is not mass medication are unpersuasive,"
she writes.
After scientists disproved the
1945 theory assuming ingested fluoride was essential for healthy teeth,
fluoridation promoters newly speculate, without evidence, that fluoridation
benefits low-income children who have the most decay and least access to dental
care – a problem that persists today despite 7 decades of fluoridation. In fact,
dental socioeconomic disparities
have increased.
The National Research Council acknowledges significant fluoride
health research has yet to be done - especially fluoride's effect on the young
brain.
Using case law, legal opinions
and scientific reports, Barnett-Rose argues that fluoridation schemes allow
public health officials to experiment on human subjects without their informed
consent.
"Adding a drug to the water
supply to treat or prevent the disease of tooth decay is unquestionably a
medical intervention, and the fact that the risks of this drug are still being
determined by public agencies, supports an argument that water fluoridation is
an ongoing human medical experiment," she writes.
"Continued imposition of
compulsory water fluoridation schemes violates numerous legal and ethical human
subjects' research protocols," argues Barnett-Rose.
"It is no longer acceptable
for public health officials to simply dismiss the accruing negative data and to
continue to insist that the levels of fluoride children and adults are receiving
on a daily basis are without any serious health consequences," she
writes.
Attorney Paul
Beeber, NYSCOF President says, "Politics plays a heavy hand in
fluoridation policy and promotion which seems to protect special interest
groups, corporations and government agencies instead of the American public who
are unwitting guinea pigs in this ongoing fluoridation experiment."
Barnett-Rose writes: "Taking
politics and long-entrenched agendas out of the mix, the risks of tooth decay,
while perhaps still significant for a minority of individuals, are significantly
outweighed by the human rights burdens, economic costs, and risks of other
bodily harm for the majority of those affected."
SOURCE .New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF)
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