Women's Club Attacks Fluoridation As Dangerous Plot by Subversives

"The fluoridation of water is part of a wide spread plot by subversives to take over the American government." This statement was unanimously indorsed by the Massachusetts Women's Political Club when the question of adding fluorine to Cambridge water was brought up at a recent meeting.

Dr. E. H. Bronner, manufacturing research chemist of Los Angeles, published an article in the "January Catholic Mirror" condemning fluoridation. Bronner feels that those advocating fluoridation are a group of "subversive agents, Godless intellectual parasites, whose true objective is to demoralize, paralyze, and destroy our great republic."

In his article Bronner mentioned that in small quantities fluoride is a deadly poison with no known antidote. When interviewed, Dr. James H. Shaw, Assistant Professor of Dental Medicine at the Harvard Dental School, replied that this statement was true, but in order to be dangerous the quantity would have to be 200 to 300 times that proposed by the city of Cambridge.

Bronner's second argument was that these "subversives" could, at some predetermined hour, let deadly quantities of fluoride into the water. Shaw remarked, "It would be just as easy to drop a bottle of cyanide in the reservoir, in fact easier, for more people have access to it than the fluorine valve."