Fluoride Part 1: Prehistory, References
the most violently reactive chemical element: Peshin, Akash. Which Is The Most Reactive Element In The Periodic Table? ScienceABC. Accessed July 7, 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20250429153631/https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/most-reactive-element-metal-nonmetal-periodic-table.html
Geologists make use of its extreme chemical properties: Memorial University. “U-Pb Zircon Geochronology - for determining the age of a rock.” Accessed July 7, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwFoD2RJl1w
used in the smelting of steel, iron, beryllium, magnesium, lead, aluminum, copper, gold, silver, and nickel: Bryson, Christopher. The Fluoride Deception. Seven Stories Press, 2004. p.33.
a byproduct of mining phosphate: Fluoride Action Network. The Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: An Environmental Overview. Accessed July 7, 2025. https://fluoridealert.org/content/phosphate01/
the strongest oxidizing agent: Peshin, Akash. Which Is The Most Reactive Element In The Periodic Table? ScienceABC. Accessed July 7, 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20250429153631/https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/most-reactive-element-metal-nonmetal-periodic-table.html
The carbon-fluorine chemical bond is the strongest in all of organic chemistry: “Carbon–fluorine bond.” Wikipedia. Accessed July 7, 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20250526062257/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%E2%80%93fluorine_bond
one of the few acids that eats glass: Roholm, Kaj. Fluorine Intoxication. H.K. Lewis & Co. LTD., 1937. p.36. See also Peshin, Akash. Which Is The Most Reactive Element In The Periodic Table? ScienceABC. Accessed July 7, 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20250429153631/https://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/most-reactive-element-metal-nonmetal-periodic-table.html
In the course of time injuries to plants: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.36.
The chemical company YuhanTechnology: yhchemi. Safe Hydrofluoric Acid Storage Recommendations. YuhanTechnology. Accessed July 8, 2025. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250708182507/https://www.yuhanchemi.com/hydrofluoric-acid-storage-recommendations
one of Teflon’s first uses: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.48.
Cows crawled around the pasteur on their bellies: Griffiths, Joel. Fluoride: Commie Plot or Capitalist Ploy. Covert Action Information Bulletin No, 42, Fall 1992. Accessed July 7, 2025. Archived at https://archive.org/details/CovertActionInformtionBulletinNo42Fall1992/page/n26/mode/1up
Cryolite was the miracle rock: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.124ff.
Pure cryolite itself: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.123.
transparent and either whitish, reddish, or blackish ... forms cubic crystals ... tendency to form dust: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.123.
Those laborers who worked with cryolite: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.136ff.
63 workers were killed: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.34f.
The high toxicity of fluorine compounds: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.301.
Cryolite dust itself has been employed: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.125.
It was in the 1930s that fluoride pesticides really took off: Meiers, Peter. Patents on Fluoride Rat Poison & Insecticides. Accessed July 7, 2025. http://www.fluoride-history.de/p-insecticides.htm
inflicting chemical burns on plants: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.67ff.
damage claims due to fluoride pollution were: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.197.
In 1925, Elmer V. McCollum: McCollum, E.V., Nina Simmonds, J. Ernestine Becker, and R.W. Bunting. The Effect of Additions of Fluorine to the Diet of the Rat on the Quality of the Teeth. 1925.
this tooth condition affected many Americans settling westward ... “Colorado brown stain” or “Texas teeth”: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.33.
But in 1931, multiple researchers, including H.V. Churchill: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.260.
Churchill would play a role: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.131.
FDA has mandated that fluoride toothpaste needs to have a label: US Food and Drug Administration. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Monograph M021: Anticaries Drug Products for Over-the-Counter Human Use. May 2, 2023. Accessed July 8, 2025. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240309113028/https://dps-admin.fda.gov/omuf/sites/omuf/files/monograph-documents/2023-05/OTC%20Monograph%20M021-Anticaries%20Drug%20Products%20for%20OTC%20Human%20Use%2005.02.2023.pdf
There are currently six class action lawsuits: 6 Lawsuits Target Fluoride Overexposure, Marketing of Children’s Toothpaste. NDT Newsroom. January 16, 2025. Accessed July 19, 2025. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250116174254/https://www.ntd.com/6-lawsuits-target-fluoride-overexposure-marketing-of-childrens-toothpaste_1041101.html
See also: Oldenburg, Don. Toothpaste: How Safe? Washington Post. June 16, 1997. Accessed July 8, 2025. Archived at https://fluoridealert.org/content/fda-toothpaste/
In 1933, Floyd DeEds, a senior toxicologist: DeEds, Floyd. Chronic Fluorine Intoxication: A Review. Medicine, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1933.
This new dental information appears: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.39.
Alcoa’s research director, Francis Frary: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.39f.
In his five part series titled Asbestos 101, particularly in Part 4, Lane meticulously documents the history of the asbestos conspiracy: Lane, Justinian C. Asbestos 101, Part Four: The Coverup - How Industry Hid The Dangers of Asbestos. Asbestos Claims Law YouTube Channel. The most relevant part starts around 1:06:40. Accessed July 9, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bHwTPgEFDg
Weidlein was a consultant for the US Military on battle gases for World War I: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.123.
defended the polluters in the wake of the 1948 Halloween disaster at Donora: See Chapter 9 of The Fluoride Deception.
[T]he Mellon Institute, ALCOA’s research lab in Pittsburgh: Rothbard, Murray. Fluoridation Revisited. New American. December 14, 1992. Accessed July 7, 2025. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20231026141456/https://thenewamerican.com/us/healthcare/flouridation-revisited/
It’s strange that, at some point, the webpage stopped displaying the author’s name “Murray Rothbard,” replacing it simply by “Alias.” It’s almost like the people at New American like what Rothbard had to say about fluoride, but don’t want to be associated with him. I personally remember going to the webpage and reading it, and it saying that Murray Rothbard was the author. I went to the page after reading Joshua Shubert’s article Rothbard was Right about Water Fluoridation in August of 2022, which can easily be found at the Mises Institute’s website. Unfortunately, the Wayback Machine doesn’t have any archived versions of the page from before October of 2023. Therefore, it must have been at some point after August of 2022 but before October of 2023 that the people at New American tried to erase Rothbard. Very fortunately, the people at New American failed to cover all of their tracks: If one scrolls down to the bottom of the article, it still states that it was written by Murray N. Rothbard. The article is also archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250708010124/https://actionpa.org/fluoride/revisited/ where it properly lists Rothbard as the author. As further proof, Reason Magazine had an article back in 2001 titled “Impurifying our precious bodily fluids” stating that Rothbard was the author of that article in New American. That Reason article is pro-fluoridationist, yet Reason Magazine is ideologically very close to Rothbard, so there’s no reason that they would want to misrepresent Rothbard’s views. This Reason article is archived at https://fluoridealert.org/news/impurifying-our-precious-bodily-fluids/
Virtually overnight, the Mellon Institute rats: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.40.
Roholm found that 80.9 percent: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.138.
In regions where the fluorine content: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.293.
Our present knowledge most decidedly: Roholm. Fluorine Intoxication. p.315. Emphaisis in original.
jointly established by General Motors and DuPont ... elevated levels of fluoride in their blood: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.42.
General Motors donated $25,000: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.43.
“The world stood on the precipice: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.44
During World War II, damage claims: Rothbard. Fluoridation Revisited. New American.
“arrogant and aloof”: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.101.
Kehoe was also involved with the peer review process: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.101f.
the industry’s darling when it came to leaded gasoline: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.41.
considered it “dishonest”: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.104.
this “study” was an attack on: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.106ff.
Largent’s 1951 paper was influential among: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.107, 173.
multiple news stories about poisonings: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.51ff.
Some workers would be exposed: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.57ff,
the workers weren’t even allowed to know: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.58.
Gloria Porter, who was only 22-years-old: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.60.
“People working in the atomic energy production plants: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.67.
there was a lawsuit brought forward by thirteen farmers: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.69ff.
Why was there such a national-security emergency: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.74f.
between 30 and 165 thousand pounds of hydrofluoric acid each month: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.76.
the settlements made were just pennies: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.76.
the experiment was to monitor: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.79ff.
“undue interruption”: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.81.
President Roosevelt would have: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.80.
The chemical added to their water was sodium fluoride: Ast, David B., Sidney B. Finn, Isabel McCaffrey. Newburgh-Kingston Caries Fluorine Study. American Journal of Public Health. June, 1950.
Secretly, in tandem with the state’s public: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.83.
Investigative journalists discovered that Hodge: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.92ff.
He tested fluoride compounds for potential: Marks, John. The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control. TIMES BOOKS, 1978. p.118.
If specific locations or activities of the Atomic Energy Commission: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.97.
uncovered by Dan Guttman: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.97ff.
The secret version came to the conclusion that fluoride was actually eating away at people’s teeth: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.88ff.
while the version that was allowed to be released to the public came to the opposite conclusion: Dale, P. and H.B. McCauley. Dental Conditions in Workers Chronically Exposed to Dilute and Anyhydrous Hydrofluoric Acid. Journal of the American Dental Association, Vol. 37, No. 2. August 1948.
wondered if all of the public fluoride research might have been like that: Bryson. The Fluoride Deception. p.90.
See also: https://infiniteunknown.net/2010/10/31/fluoride-a-chronological-history/