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by Christopher Bryson. This skillfully written, highly readable, and extensively documented
book includes over 100 pages of footnotes and source references at the end of the book. It
demonstrates convincingly that the introduction of fluoride into the American public water
supply was not an act originated by the Public Health System out of concern for American’s
dental health. Rather, the introduction of fluoride to America’s drinking water was initiated
by the Aluminum Corporation of America (Alcoa), and other corporate interests, as a means
to deceive the public about the dangers of fluoride compounds that were the byproducts of
aluminum and steel manufacturing, and the burgeoning nuclear industry.

If one follows the trail of the introduction of fluoride to the public drinking water, the
presence of powerful corporate interests is easily observed. The head of the Public Health
System in America at the time of fluoride’s adoption and promotion by the government was
a man named Oscar Ewing. In 1944 Oscar Ewing earned $750,000 as the lead attorney
representing Alcoa. This was a tremendous sum of money in those days. Yet, in 1945 Ewing
gave up this lucrative position to accept a government post as Federal Security
Administrator. In this position Ewing oversaw the U.S. Public Health System.

At the time of Ewing’s appointment the Federal Security Agency fell under the control of
the Treasury Department, and the head of the U.S. Treasury was none other than Andrew
Mellon, who made his fortune in aluminum and steel manufacturing. With Ewing’s
appointment the policy of the PHS reversed, and they began promoting the addition of
fluoride to the public’s drinking water.

At the time the aluminum industry was under siege as hundreds of millions of dollars in
lawsuits were being brought against the manufacturers. Farmers and ranchers were having
their lands poisoned, their crops destroyed, and their livestock crippled by the hazardous
waste pouring forth from the smokestacks of the huge industrial smelters. Citizens were
being poisoned, sickened, and even dying. The primary culprit was the fluoride produced
as a byproduct of aluminum manufacturing. Christopher Bryson shares the following
information.

Ray Weidlein and the Mellon Institute were in full crisis mode that spring of 1935 helping
Union Carbide and other top corporations contain public outrage over workplace carnage
- and head off draconian legislation for better pollution control inside factories. The
corporate strategy was clear: get dominion over basic science, wrestle control of health
information from labor groups, and in turn, reinvest that medical expertise in the hand
of industry-anointed specialists... The besieged corporations organized a lobbying group
known as the Air Hygiene Foundation because, as the group noted, “Sound laws must be
based upon sound facts”; and, perhaps more importantly, because “half a billion dollars
in damage suits have been filed against employers in occupational disease claims.”

Headquartered at the Mellon Institute, in 1937 the Air Hygiene Foundation had a
membership list sporting many of the best-known names in the industry, including Johns-
Manville, Westinghouse, Monsanto, U.S. Steel, Union Carbide, Alcoa, and DuPont.
[Source: The Fluoride Deception, Christopher Bryson]

Alcoa was one of the companies facing a tidal wave of litigation.