Thank you for your vision, foresight and courage in edifying the scientific facts against water fluoridation.  I know it’s a political football and it really is a bear to get your arms around it.  Six years ago, my wife asked me to look into the ying and yang of removing water fluoridation.  I said, “What!  Are you kidding me?  Water fluoridation to prevent cavities is right up there with Mom, Apple Pie, Puppies and the Flag.  She said please!  So you know what I did-I did.  Eating crow isn’t so bad: add some fresh basil, garlic salt and pepper.

As a financial planner and Due Diligence Consultant, I know how to research, verify, and separate the wheat from the chaff.  I had no ax to grind.  If anything, I must admit that I naturally leaned a little more to my own preconceived idea.

As a matter of human conduct, when the lie is big enough and when you hear it often enough, long enough, from people you believe who should know better—you don’t just believe it, you don’t even think about it—you just assume it to be true.  And, folk’s, that is just what has happened: to you, to me, and to everyone else.  Bottom line:  after reading “The Fluoride Deception” by Christopher Bryson and “The Case Against Fluoride-How Hazardous Waste Ended Up In Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Kept It There” by Dr.’s Paul Connett, James Beck and H.S, Micklem, “ Autopsy of a Scientific Error”, and 507 pages of the 2006 National Research Council Report (which was commissioned by the EPA) and every book before and after, including the ADA website and the websites of Fluoride Action Network, Second Look, New York State Council Against Fluoride, Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children, etc.etc., I came to the considered opinion that—for over 65 years, we have been lied to and/or sold the story-line by the biggest and some of the (supposed) best, i.e., our trusted institutions.  They are: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), The American Medical Association (AMA, The American Dental Association (ADA), The Industrial Complex, and our own Municipal and State Governments who just drank the Kool-Aid.  I was somewhat relieved to find a quote by Mark Twain, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble—it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

On January 7, 2011, the EPA came out with a suggested lowering of the standard concentration of Fluoride in the public water supplies of .7 ppm from 1.2 ppm in the North and .7 ppm in the South.  Three days later, the EPA announces, in a conference call to  The Fluoride Action Network, a Non-for –Profit Fluoride Research Group and Think Tank and the Environmental Working Group, a D.C. Environmental Advocacy Group and Think Tank, that they are not going to approve DOW Chemical’s Sulfuryl Fluoride as a Fumigant for use on Produce and Stored Grains.  That was the first time that the EPA ever backed-off from a DOW Chemical request!  What happened that would make the EPA do a 100MPH retreat on Fluoride?

In November/December of 2010, the Centers for Disease Control came out with the results of their “Prevalence and Severity of Dental Fluorosis in the United States, 1999-2004”.  It created a major wake-up call.  The 65 year flood of Water Fluoridation had created a Tsunami of Dental Fluorosis.;  “40.7 % of the 12-15 year old had Dental Fluorosis!”   This is of epidemic proportions.  And guess what?  These numbers are stale: they are already 7-12 years old – what are they today?  Also, the numbers for very mild, mild, moderate and severe fluorosis are up anywhere from 66% to 177% from the1986-1987 surveys, in just the 12 year period.

Dental Fluorosis has been given short shrift by many in government and various Dental Associations, in an attempt to mitigate the unbelievable seriousness of this affliction. It is considered a Medical Given, that if Fluoride Poisoning shows up in the teeth as Dental Fluorosis it is in that child’s entire skeletal structure.  Since Fluoride is a cumulative poison, healthy kidneys only get rid of approximately 50%, the remaining 50% accumulates in the bones, the Pineal Gland, the Hippocampus, the Thyroid, the Aorta, the Kidneys:  and it’s PERMANENT!  And fixing dental fluorosis can be a very expensive proposition.  If it gets to bad, the teeth just crumble.  African Americans and Hispanics have an even greater disproportionate impact which I will cover under the heading :Fluoride-Gate.  Law suits are starting to be filed.

WE HAVE JUST PERMANENTLY DISFIGURED A WHOLE GENERATION OF 12-15 YEAR OLD CHILDREN!

Now, let us talk about brain damage to pre-natal and just-born children whose mothers were exposed to water fluoridation.  You need to know that there are 26 human studies and over 100 animal studies that show reductions in IQ of 5-15 points, learning disabilities, predisposition to Autism and Downs Syndrome, ADD and ADHD.  And what are young mothers to do, drink the fluoridated tap water and feed and bathe their babies in it?  The medical travesty from fluoridation is a mighty long list-one needs to go to www.fluoridealert.org and begin the available journey of enlightenment.  There is no Court that will show mercy when it discovers that a Municipal Water District did not avail themselves of available information.  The volumes of research on the increases in Altzheimers Disease and hip fractures in the elderly in fluoridated areas would fill a very large semi.

Your prescience in coming to grips with this is commendable.  I know of cities and water districts that have gone thru the due diligence process and came to the same conclusions: not to fluoridate. There are two other areas I feel would be of benefit to you. First is  understanding the impact of having used the toxic waste product, Hydrofluorosilicic Acid. Your are going to be so glad that you are getting rid of this toxin.  You were sold a bill of goods when they talked to you about the safety of it.  Your July 7, 2004 “An Open Letter to the Customers of Pinellas county Utilities” is fraught with serious inaccuracies to the point of it being a lie: “The fluorosilicic acid does not come from pollution scrubbers”, “hydrofluorosilicic acid is not poisonous” “No acute health effects were anticipated even if fluoridated toothpaste was/is swallowed.”  I suspect that you have dodged a big bullet by stopping water fluoridation.

The second area you need to be made aware of is a new term, “Fluoride Gate”.  This was coined by Andrew Young, former Mayor of Atlanta and Ambassador to the United Nations.  He has joined with a Pastor of the largest black church in Atlanta who got a Pastor in Memphis, who is the President of an association of 5000 African American Churches: the daughter and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, the daughter of Ted Turner and law firms thoughout the country to start thinking “Fluoride-Gate, the Quest for Environmental Justice”.  While there are no guarantees in life, it is not only possible but probable that this is going to upset many people in business, government, water districts and professional associations.

As an added bonus, one you were not aware of, is understanding the relationship between water fluoridation and increased lead and aluminum uptake in children and adults.  Masters and Coplan took blood samples of over 400,00 school children in Mass. and NY:  the children living in fluoridated areas had 50 to 100% greater blood-lead serum levels.  Their studies of violent crime like road-rage, multiple murders/school shootings-the perps all came from fluoridated areas and/or were on Prozac.  I can make their studies available to you.  They also did a study showing that not being fluoridated versus fluoridated in terms of violent crimes statistcs, could prevent a determinable amount.  And, since it takes $20-50,000 to process a case in court and legal costs and $30-50,000/year to house inmates, a County could drop $millions of dollars to their bottom-line in savings.

Sincerely, Kurt Irmischer