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“Air Is Fluoridated”

June 11, 2012

Fluoride is an extremely toxic ion; near sources of fluoride air pollution, vegetation is destroyed, animals get sick and die, and people suffer eye irritation, respiratory problems, or more serious symptoms of fluoride poisoning. But fluoride can be dangerous even in very tiny amounts, because many plants and animals accumulate the ion in their tissues. Over several months or years, even the faintest measurable traces of fluoride can add up and cause harmful effects.

’49 memo laid plan to study effects of radiation on humans

May 14, 2012

Researchers outlined an elaborate plan in 1949 to use workers at a Tennessee uranium processing plant to learn more about the long-term effects of chronic radiation exposure on humans, a recently declassified document showed. The document suggests that the aim was focused more on using the workers as guinea pigs to learn about radiation health effects than on worker protection, said one investigator. Dr. Harold C. Hodge was quoted in the Oak Ridge memo as describing the need to secure tissue samples from the uranium workers.