| Description |
xxxiv, 379 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Theo Colborn -- Major figures in the fluoride story -- 1. Through the looking glass -- 2. Fireworks at Forsyth -- 3. Opposite sides of the Atlantic -- 4. General Groves's problem -- 5. General Groves's solution : Dr. Harold Hodge and the University of Rochester -- 6. How the Manhattan Project sold us fluoride : Newburgh, Harshaw, and Jim Conant's ruse -- 7. A subterranean channel of secret-keeping -- 8. Robert Kehoe and the Kettering Laboratory -- 9. Donora : a rich man's hocus pocus -- 10. The public health service investigation -- |
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11. As vital to our national life as a spark plug to a motor car -- 12. Engineering consent -- 13. Showdown in the West : Martin vs. Reynolds Metals -- 14. Fluorine lawyers and government dentists : "a very worthwhile contribution" -- 15. Buried science, buried workers -- 16. Hurricane Creek : the people rule -- 17. The damage is done -- Epilogue : blind to the truth? -- Postscript : Dr. Arvid Carlsson, 2000 Nobel Laureate |
| Summary |
"The Fluoride Deception unearths the mystery of how a grim workplace poison and the most damaging environmental pollutant of the Cold War was added to our drinking water and toothpaste. A chronicle of the abuse of power and of the manufacture of state-sponsored medical propaganda, The Fluoride Deception reveals how a secretive group of powerful industries, all of which faced extensive litigation for fluoride pollution, collaborated with officials from the National Institute of Dental Research to launder fluoride's public image."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Fluorine -- Toxicology.
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Water -- Fluoridation.
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Fluorosis.
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| ISBN |
1583225269 paperback |
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1583227008 paperback |
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9781583227008 paperback |
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