Nói chuyện ở Spokane ngày 19/8/2023

1:00      Meet, Greet, Refreshments

1:45      PRAYER & FLAG SALUTES

             National Anthems – Lễ Chào Quốc Kỳ

-The United States of America & Pledge of Allegiance

-The Republic of (South) Vietnam & Moment of Silence

1:55      Welcome & Opening Remarks (6’)

2:00      GUEST PANELISTS

              1.  Professor Stephen B. Young

                            - Vietnamese Nationalism:

                     Why the Vietnam War was Just and Honorable?

              2.  Dr. Mai Thanh Truyet, Chemist

                  - The Mekong River: China's Genocide or Ecocide?

                  -  Pros and Cons: Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water?

              3.  Journalist William Jasper

                       - Oppenheimer:

                    The Movie, the Conspiracy, the Treason, the Lies – and the Truth               

              4.  Pastor Huynh Quoc Binh

                  - Trust but Verify       

 3:15    QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

MC & Moderator: Lt.Colonel Dave Lucas

From The INLANDER Newspaper

(in the Community section).

Public Service Anouncement:

YOU are invited to FORUM: "LIFE, LIBERTY & The PURSUIT of HAPPINESS" on Saturday August 19 at 2:00pm, Shadle Park Library, Spokane. 4 distinguished Speakers: (1) Professor STEPHEN B. YOUNG, Former Asst Dean at Harvard Law School. His recent book: "Kissinger's Betrayal: How America lost Vietnam War". (2) Chemist/Professor TRUYET MAI, on How China controls the Mekong River? Why Fluoride in water ? (3) Journalist WILLIAM JASPER, Senior Editor of The New American magazine (4) Pastor BINH HUYNH boat people from Vietnam.Meet & Greet at 1:00pm. Light refreshments served. FREE. Open to Public. Contact Mary 899-5058

 

 

 TOPICS:

(1)  Professor STEPHEN YOUNG:

       - Vietnamese Nationalism:

         Why the Vietnam War was Just and Honorable?

(2)  Chemist Dr. MAI THANH TRUYET:

       - The Mekong River: China's Genocide or Ecocide?

       - Pros and Cons: Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water?

(3)  Journalist WILLIAM JASPER:

       - Oppenheimer:  The Movie, the Conspiracy, the Treason, the Lies and the Truth

(4)  Pastor BINH HUYNH:

       -Trust but Verify

Stephen Young

Professor, Author, Activist

TOPIC at Forum:

"Vietnamese Nationalism: Why the Vietnam War was Just and Honorable?"

Stephen B. Young graduated with JD Law cum laude at Harvard Law School. He served as an Assistant Dean at the Harvard Law School and Dean of the Hamline University School of Law. He has taught at the University of Minnesota Law school, Carlson School of Management, the College of Liberal Arts, Minnesota State University, the SASIN Graduate School of Management in Bangkok.

Stephen Young has spoken at many workshops and conferences on corporate social responsibility and business ethics.

He has written numerous opinion articles for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Journal on Law and Politics, St. Paul Legal Ledger, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the Washington Post. He received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor extended by Marquis Who’s Who and has been included in Who's Who Commemorative Edition Book 2023-2024 for Lifetime Achievement.

Stephen B. Young currently is the Global Executive Director of the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism, an international network of experienced business leaders who advocate a principled approach to global capitalism. Member of the Advisory Council to the Papal Fondazione Centemisus Annus Pro Pontifice, established by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II as a lay organization to promote Catholic Social Teachings. He founded the Minnesota Character Council to promote character education in Minnesota public schools.

Language studied: French, Thai, Tzotzil Maya, Vietnamese, classical Chinese. Joined the Harvard Chiapas Project in Social Anthropology in Zinacantan, Chaipas, summer 1965. Educated at the International School Bangkok. In 1966 Young discovered the Bronze Age culture of Ban Chiang in Northeast Thailand, now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Chief, Village Development Branch, CORDS, responsible for drafting new laws for tax reform and village development and negotiations with senior American and Vietnamese officials (1969-1970). USAID, Vietnam Training Center, Department of State, Washington (1967-1968). Deputy District Advisor, CORDS, Vinh Long Province, responsible for advice and assistance in all local government activities, civil and military (1968-1969). Recent book published: “Kissinger’s Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War, a history of Henry Kissinger’s 1971 personal decision to abandon South Vietnam.

“Kissinger’s Betrayal is arguably the most important single source published in decades for understanding why America went to war in Vietnam, why doing so was important, and what went wrong and ultimately led to a Communist victory”.

  - Prof. Robert Turner, SJD, former president of the U.S Institute of Peace,

    author of “Vietnamese communism: Its Origins and Development”

Dr TRUYET MAI

Professor, Chemist, Activist

Tiến sĩ Mai Thanh Truyết 

Doctorate degree (PhD) in Organic Chemistry, Université de Besançon, France. Assistant Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Besançon. Associate Professor & Dean of Chemistry Department, University of Pedagogy Saigon, Vietnam.

Vice-President of Academic Affairs of University of Cao Đai, Vietnam.

Post Doctorate Research Associate for National Institute of Health, University of Minnesota. Instructor for Chemistry Department, King College, Fresno. Laboratory Director,  Toxic Liquid and Solid Waste Treatment Plant,  Chemical Waste Management at Kettleman City, California. QA/QC Director of Weck Environmental Laboratories, Industry City, CA. Director of Leachate Treatment Plant – BKK Corp., West Covina, CA. Consultant on Foods for the Health Department of the City of Westminster, CA. Technical Director of Environmenal Services, Los Angeles, CA.

Chairman of the Vietnamese American Science & Technology Society (VASTS) from 1997 to present. Pioneer, Writer, Lobbyist, Panelist on Vietnamese Radio Talk Show & TV. Guest Speaker for the overseas Vietnamese Communities worldwide, especially on the Environmental Impacts in Vietnam, Toxins in Foods. A leader of The Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam, Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng, established since 1939 mobilizing the Vietnamese nationalists to fight for the national independence and national sovereignty against colonialism and communism.

Chairman - Vietnamese American Science & Technology Society (VASTS) 1997 to present. 

About THE MEKONG RIVER

2 Topics at Forum:

    - The Mekong River: China's Genocide or Ecocide?

    - Pros and Cons: Adding Fluoride to Drinking Water?

Based on scientific, economic, social, and environmental analysis. We recognize the  Mekong Delta is facing great long-term dangers. Without the right determination and direction, in the future, the Vietnamese people will suffer a lot of heavy damage. And the main reason is China. Beijing has turned China into the world's leading "super-corporation" in the construction of dams at home and abroad in terms of number and size. To advertise the possibility of building the tallest, largest, deepest and longest dams, Beijing has focused on completing the Three Gorges Dam, calling it the greatest architectural feat in history.

Since China erected a series of giant dams on the Mekong River, drought has become more frequent and more intense in the countries downstream of the river. So far Beijing has refused to enter into water-sharing agreements with any of its neighbours. If China does not abandon its current approach, the prospect of future confrontations that could lead to a regional war is no different from the current situation in the South China Sea.

(excerpt)

Abstract: The Mekong River, the world's 11th longest river, is also the world's 2nd richest river in its biodiversity. Fed by the melting snows of the Tibetan Himalayas and monsoon rains of Southeast Asia, the 2,268 miles Mekong is home to thousands of rare and endangered species of plants and animals. The river and her countless tributaries nourish and support over 100 million people, from China in the north to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and finally to the 25 million living in Vietnam's Nine Dragon Delta region.

That Delta is not only the most productive agricultural region of Vietnam - its $ 2 Billion of export crops are feeding and sustaining the people of many other nations and making Vietnam the world's second largest rice exporting country in the world at about 5-6 million tons/year.

Today, the Nine Dragon Delta region, and all those residing in the Nine Dragon Basin are threatened by the reckless development and misuse of this great river and her waters. The new threat is far greater than any drought or flood. Water diversion and development projects along the Mekong River are posing new and formidable threats throughout the river's basin, but most particularly in the Delta, threats not only to the Delta inhabitants' way of life and agricultural productivity, but to the river and Delta ecosystems.

Scientists and engineers in Vietnam and abroad are concerned by the environmental damage to the Delta being caused by the development projects far upstream from Vietnam. These projects including large scale hydropower developments in Yunnan in Laos, and recently in Cambodia  have made the massive Mekong water diversion projects undertaken by Thailand. The economic costs and environmental consequences of the projects, however, are being borne by people with no voice in these decisions, by people who reap no benefit from these projects, and borne most heavily by those living and farming far downstream in Mekong Delta (Nine Dragon Delta).

Knowing the causes of disasters for the Mekong River.

Catching the solutions to resolve the problem.

Please do not blame "climate change" but must accept the consequences that are happening today to the Mekong and Nine Dragon Delta due to the management and development NOT in the direction of globalization, which is, developing in the direction of adaptation, compatible with environmental protection.

Based on scientific, economic, social, and environmental analysis. We recognize the  Mekong Delta is facing great long-term dangers. Without the right determination and direction, in the future, the Vietnamese people will suffer a lot of heavy damage. And the main reason is China. Beijing has turned China into the world's leading "super-corporation" in the construction of dams at home and abroad in terms of number and size. To advertise the possibility of building the tallest, largest, deepest and longest dams, Beijing has focused on completing the Three Gorges Dam, calling it the greatest architectural feat in history.

Since China erected a series of giant dams on the Mekong River, drought has become more frequent and more intense in the countries downstream of the river. So far Beijing has refused to enter into water-sharing agreements with any of its neighbours. If China does not abandon its current approach, the prospect of future confrontations that could lead to a regional war is no different from the current situation in the South China Sea.

Dr. Truyet Mai

Mai Thanh Truyết

https://maithanhtruyet1.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MaiThanhTruyetUSA

About FLUORIDATED WATER:

Adding more fluoride into drinking water, you may have more risk of damaged teeth and gum inflammation. Excess amounts of fluoride in drinking water can cause dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, arthritis, bone damage, osteoporosis, muscular damage, fatigue, joint-related problems, and chronicle issues. And, according to Dr. Izabella Wentz, ingesting too much fluoride can cause damage to the thyroid gland and hypothyroid symptoms.

Teeth will become dark brown, and gums often become infected and numb. The discoloration of teeth is explained as

follows: When teeth are growing and exposed to fluoride for a long time, the fluoride element will penetrate deeper into the dentin and the teeth will turn brown and the gum became dark (gum inflammation) as the case of people living in Ninh Hoa, Vietnam. This disease is called dental fluorosis.

-- Dr Truyet Mai  from Texas

 

William Jasper:

Investigative Journalist William Jasper:

Senior Editor of The New American magazine

http://www.thenewamerican.com

published over 60 years

TOPIC at Forum:

"Oppenheimer: The Movie, the Conspiracy, the Treason, the Lies – and the Truth"

Oppenheimer, the summer movie sensation, was boosted to blockbuster status by the usual pro-Communists and liberal-left elites of Hollywood and Deep State media. Why? The film is the latest in a decades-long propaganda effort to convince the American people that concern over the world Communist conspiracy and the massive infiltration of Communists and Communist ideology into the U.S. government and American society was a false alarm caused by hysterical “McCarthyism.” 

Mr. Jasper will show the dishonesty of the film and briefly review the voluminous evidence documenting not only the Communist ties of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atom bomb,” but also of the many high-placed U.S. government officials, scientists, and academics who aided the Soviet Union. The century-long war that began with the Bolshevik Revolution still rages on and Oppenheimer is the latest salvo in the Communist/Deep State deception campaign to rewrite history and whitewash the bloody genocidal record of totalitarian Communism.

William F. Jasper, Senior Editor

The New American magazine

P.O. Box 8040

Appleton, WI 54912

website: www.thenewamerican.com

920-749-3784

wjasper@thenewamerican.com 

PASTOR BINH HUYNH

(Huỳnh Quốc Bình)

Former President of the free Vietnamese Community of Oregon

Former Mission Coordinator for Church of Nazarene.

Vietnamese contributing Writer for Phuong Dong News in Pacific Northwest.

Current Pastor, preaching the Gospel for TNT Radio Network

Executive Director of New Hope Media Network

"The Vietnamese communists had invaded South Vietnam with support from China, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell. Since then, the entire Vietnam has been under communist ruling. The Vietnamese people lost everything including all Freedoms. Those who believe what the communists propagating about socialism,  those who believe what the Vietnamese Communist Party telling people that everyone would have equality under their regime, now should have their eyes opened. It is too late. Instead of gaining equality and justice, the Vietnamese people have lost everything". (Speech: "Nowhere To Run",  Friendship Day, Shadle Park Library,  Spokane, Washington, Oct. 23, 2022)

https://newhopemedianetwork.net

https://huynhquocbinh.net/category/doi-song-an-binh/page/2/

 

 

VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN SENIOR ASSOCIATION OF SPOKANE (VASA)

                 Hội Cao Niên Việt-Mỹ tại Spokane, Washington                      

                      P.O. Box 18031, Spokane, WA 99228 

         (509) 489-0185 or 899-5058  vasa.spokane@yahoo.com                   

      

                                           THƯ MỜI 

 

Kính chào quý vị trưởng lão cùng gia đình, bằng hữu và quý đồng hương. Mùa hè, mong quý anh chị vui khoẻ trong các sinh hoạt lành mạnh ngoài trời như tản bộ, câu cá, picnic, hay trồng trọt rau cải ngoài vườn nhà mình. Trong tinh thần cố gắng duy trì vài sinh hoạt hữu ích cho cộng đồng, Hội Cao Niên Spokane kính mời quý vị và các bạn trẻ cùng gia đình & bằng hữu đến tham dự một Forum đặc biệt, rồi sau đó tới nhà hàng Mongolian Grill (6429 N Division) dùng cơm chiều lúc 6:00 giờ cùng với các diễn giả (mọi người tự trả tiền Buffet).

             FORUM:     Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness

                                Quyền Sống, Tự Do và Mưu Cầu Hạnh Phúc

                                Thứ Bảy 19 tháng Tám lúc 2:00 giờ. Tiếp tân 1:00 giờ

                                Shadle Park Library,  2111 W. Wellesley, Spokane, WA 99205

Chúng ta hân hạnh mời 4 Diễn Giả ưu tú là các chiến sĩ Tự Do (Freedom Fighters).

1.  Giáo sư Stephen Young:  Nguyên là phó khoa trưởng Trường Luật ở Đại học Harvard, dạy Luật Học tại Hamline University. Cộng tác với Cơ Quan Phát Triển Quốc Tế Hoa Kỳ (USAID) và Tòa Đại Sứ Mỹ ở Sài Gòn 1968-1972 . Ông nói tiếng Việt lưu loát. Nhiều năm trợ giúp thuyền nhân Việt và yểm trợ Tự Do cho Việt Nam.

Tác giả 15 cuốn sách. Sách mới nhất: “Kissinger’s Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War”.  

2.  Ký giả William Jasper:  Chủ nhiệm The New American magazine (www.thenewamerican.com).

Ký giả quốc tế lão thành tường thuật nhiều năm tại Liên Hiệp Quốc. Tác giả 2 sách và nhiều bài bình luận.

3.  Tiến sĩ Mai Thanh Truyết:  PhD Hóa Học tại Đại học Besancon, Pháp. Giám đốc Học Vụ, Viện Đại học Cao Đài ở Tây Ninh trước 1975. Trưởng Ban Hóa Học của Đại học Sư phạm Sài Gòn. Chủ tịch Hội Đồng Quản Trị Hội Khoa Học & Kỹ Thuật Vịệt Nam tại Hoa Kỳ. Giám đốc nhà máy lọc nước thải Leachate Treatment Plant, CA. Giảng dạy Chemistry tại King College, California (maithanhtruyet.blogspot.com)

4.  Giáo sĩ Huỳnh Quốc Bình:  Cựu chủ tịch Cộng Đồng Người Việt Tự Do tại Portland, Oregon.

     Hội Trưởng New Hope Media Network (NewHopeMediaNetwork.net). Có các bài giảng về đạo Thiên Chúa.

Đây là lần thứ sáu, Hội Cao Niên tổ chức các chương trình Forum bằng Anh ngữ, để giúp cư dân địa phương hiểu biết thêm về tình hình Hoa Kỳ và thế giới, cũng như văn hóa và lịch sử Việt Nam. Người Mỹ hiểu người Việt thì sẽ có thêm lòng thông cảm thương mến kính trọng yểm trợ các sinh hoạt và cơ sở thương mại của người Việt. Rất mong quý vị tới tham dự Forum và dùng Buffet. Quý vị có thể phát biểu và đặt câu hỏi như:

- Trung Quốc đã kiểm soát và khống chế dòng sông Cửu Long ra sao?

- Henry Kissinger đã phản bội Việt Nam Cộng Hòa cách nào?

- Thế lực ngầm là những ai, ở đâu? Họ đã phá hoại Hoa Kỳ như thế nào ?

- Thế nào là tinh thần quốc gia và lòng ái quốc?

- Tại sao tình hình chính trị kinh tế xã hội giáo dục ở Hoa Kỳ bỗng nhiên bối rối?

- Tại sao Hội Đồng Thành Phố Spokane muốn thêm (chất độc) Fluoride vào nguồn nước?

Hẹn gặp. Kính chúc quý vị và gia đình được vui khoẻ hạnh phúc, thành đạt mọi sự.

 

T/M Hội Cao Niên Việt-Mỹ tại Spokane, WA

- Nguyễn Dương

 

Pros and Cons: Adding Fluoride in Drinking Water

Note from the writer: SPOKANE, Wash.  The City of Spokane would pay nearly $11 million in capital costs and millions more to maintain a system that would add fluoride to the city's drinking water. A fluoridation implementation study commissioned by the city was just released and will now be used for elected officials to consider when deciding whether to add fluoride.

According to a recent statewide report, 46% of people in Washington have access to fluoride-treated drinking water.

Spokane has considered it several times over the years, but has never made the decision to add fluoride to the water system.

Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward has said in the past she wants the issue to go to a public vote.

PAST COVERAGE: 'It should be on the ballot'

: Woodward says decision to fluoridate water should be up to voters. The Spokane City Council voted last year to study the issue and now the report is complete.

Many of the arguments against fluoride are rooted in a fear of how it was first discovered and later introduced into the United States’ water supply. Coupled with the fact that fluoride is most beneficial during a child’s early and adolescent developmental stages, the question of whether fluoride is good for you and your kids comes up quite often.

Recent Legislative Changes for Public Water Systems

During this past Legislative Session, House Bill 1251 was passed and signed by Governor Inslee on April 20, 2023. The purpose of this bill is to set notification requirements for public water systems that want to start adding fluoride to their drinking water, or systems that would like to discontinue adding fluoride to their drinking water. Starting July 23, 2023, public water systems considering starting or discontinuing fluoridation of their water on a continuing basis must notify their customers and ODW, at least 90 days prior to a vote or decision on the matter.

 

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In the movie Dr. Strangelove, General Ripper claimed that water fluoridation was destroying “our precious bodily fluids”, a reference to the claim that water fluoridation was a conspiracy designed to weaken US willpower and make the country susceptible to a Communist takeover. Although there were occasional references to a Communist conspiracy in the anti-fluoridation movement in the United States and Canada, this was not a common feature of the debate. More commonly, opponents believed that they should not have to take medicine against their will. Much of the opposition focused on the possible health risks.

1-    Controversy about adding fluoride or not in drinking water

·       Combining several methods of self-administered topical fluoride products with water fluoridation will lead to caries reduction benefits greater than when using only one method. Having a dose-response relationship, the exposure to multiple sources of fluoride, especially in lower concentrations administered daily, increases the caries reduction benefits. Combining topical fluoride products with the consumption of fluoridated water will benefit high-risk patients.. Bennett BL. Mosby’s 2014 

·       As with fluoridated water, there has been some concern about the simultaneous combination of fluoride ingested from both salt and toothpaste. Available data suggest that this combination has not resulted in objectionable enamel fluorosis levels. However, observations of increased mild dental fluorosis were seen in children who consumed fluoride tablets and fluoridated salt. Pollick HF. 2013  

 

2-    Fluoride: Safety or Danger?

In 1909, dentist Frederic Mc Kay, while observing the condition of children's teeth in Pikes Peak, Colorado, noticed that their teeth had turned an unusually dark brown color compared with children living in other parts of the country. USA. His conclusion at that time was that the domestic water here was contaminated with fluorine in the form of salt. 

Currently, the national recommended allowance for fluoride in drinking water is    1 mg/L and toothpaste is 2 mg/L. WHO guidelines for fluoride? Fluoridated toothpastes containing between 1000 and 1500 ppm fluoride is the standard recommended by WHO as a public oral health measure for the prevention of caries.  This has been approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

·       Why is fluoride banned in Europe? All other treatment chemicals are added to treat the water (i.e. to improve the water's quality and safety - which fluoride does not do). This is one of the reasons why much of Europe has rejected fluoridation.

·       Is there fluoride in drinking water worldwide? Water fluoridation by country. Worldwide, the Irish Republic and Singapore are the only countries which implement mandatory water fluoridation. Most of the drinking water in the Republic, (but not Northern Ireland), is fluoridated. Singapore's tap water contains small amounts of chlorine, pesticides, lead and other heavy metals, nitrates, nitrites, fluoride and possibly other people's medical drugs. Why? The chlorine and fluoride are added to kill bacteria and allegedly strengthen our teeth.

·       Why does Ireland have fluoride in water? The level of fluoride in drinking water in Ireland has been set at between 0.6-0.8 parts per million (ppm). To achieve this, HFSA is diluted by a factor of more than one in a hundred thousand. This level of fluoride is deemed optimal for protecting the oral health of all age groups. The Irish Government is coming under mounting national cross-party political pressure to end public water fluoridation in the run-up to the impending General Election planned for 2016.

The reason there are different opinions about the application of fluoride is due to the concentration of this element present in the water source. Recently, the National Research Council (NRC) has established a Research Council of dentists, toxicologists, and public health experts. The research results were published in March 2006 in which the preliminary conclusion was that the allowable concentration of fluoride in domestic water was too high. With this permissible level), the Council concluded that children using water with the above concentration for a long time will damage teeth, and may reduce intelligence index (IQ). In addition, if using this water throughout life, old age can cause osteoporosis, and the risk of hip fracture is very high. And a group of Harvard professors added to the conclusion that teenagers can develop bone cancer when drinking fluoridated water. 

According to research, if using water with a concentration higher than 4 mg / L, the risk of tooth decay is highest, especially for children. Historically in Hong Kong, since the introduction of fluoride into drinking water, tooth decay among children and adolescents aged 6 to 19 has increased from 23% in the late 1980s to 32% annually. 2006. It is estimated that currently one in four HK children has absorbed twice the amount of fluoride needed by the body. 

That is why Professor Hardy Limeback of the University of Toronto added to the National Research Council that putting fluoride in toothpaste will be one of the ten mistakes of the 21st century.

3-    State Officials points

 

The question is, currently, through the above contradictory views, what and how the US competent authorities in this matter such as the National Research Council, the Poison Control Center (PCC) must react and have different opinions about the presence of fluoride.in water and toothpaste? 

·       For toothpastes that contain fluoride, it is required for the manufacturer to clearly state on the label on the outside of the tube: Fluoride toothpaste is packaged with the mandatory warning: “Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age” by FDA. If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away.”

·       Particularly, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), requires workers working on bringing fluoride into the water to wear protective clothing and gas masks. Workers in factories related to fluorine often suffer from skin allergies and gastrointestinal diseases due to the influence of fluorine gas released into the air. Sometimes workers also die in severe cases. Fluoride is also classified as a toxic chemical (poison) because fluoride in high concentrations is used to kill rats and kill some pests in agriculture.

 

4-    PFAS may cause cancer!

According to a report by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), if people are exposed to or ingest too much PFAS, it will be deposited in the blood, liver and kidneys, increasing the risk of risks such as cancer, obesity. obesity, thyroid disease, high cholesterol, infertility, liver disease, hormonal imbalance...

Recently, 3M reaches $10.3 billion settlement over “forever chemicals” PFAS in public water systems.

 

5-    How Fluoride enters the human body. 

The next question is: So, through the above presentation, how does fluoride infect the body and affect humans?

Fluoride enters the body through the esophagus and is absorbed through skin cells by using fluorinated water or breathing in air contaminated with fluorine gas. It can be said that half of the 50% of fluoride absorbed in the body will be expelled from the body through urine, and the other half will accumulate in teeth and bones.

6-    In Vietnam, which communities suffer from fluoride in soil and water? 

In Vietnam, water wells in Ninh Hoa at Nha Trang province contains fluoride levels above 10 mg/L, so most people living here have fluorosis in their teeth. And in 2003, UNICEF gave a $3 million grant to install defluorination systems for the population living in this area.

7-    And how about the effect of Fluoride on intelligence?

As for IQ, children drinking waters containing fluorine concentrations of 2.5 mg/L or more have an IQ reduction of 8 points compared to children living in low-fluoridated waters.

For adults who have been exposed to fluoride for a long time, the American Medical Journal (AJM) published research results at the end of 2005 on a woman who had been exposed to fluoride and suffered from fluorosis. bone fluorosis, as well as joint pain with movement. This is because this woman has been drinking one to two gallons of tea continuously for over 20 years. She lives in an area with limestone and high fluoride content in the soil. According to the same study, the scientists estimated that the women had absorbed at least 10 mg of fluoride a day for more than 20 years, and the tea leaves had absorbed fluoride in the soil. Remember, Lipton Instant Tea we often see in the market has an average content of about 6.5 mg/L. 

Also through the same medical journal, elderly people living in areas with high soil fluoride levels from 2 to 4 mg/kg, such as in Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma, were 41 percent more likely to have a hip fracture than those living in areas of low concentration.

8-    Conclusion: 

The questions below are from the extract of an article from Catherine Carstairs - Am J Public Health. 2015 August on Debating Water Fluoridation: “Most scientists doing research in the field were very clearly identified as pro-fluoridation or anti-fluoridation, with confusing ramifications for the public debate. 

·       Who should members of the public believe in?

·       The reassuring pamphlets that told the public that fluoridation was safe, effective, thoroughly tested, and endorsed by experts?

·       Or the far more lengthy and detailed books, leaflets, and pamphlets distributed by the anti-forces that asserted that fluoride might lead to joint problems, heart and kidney disease, and cancer? The fact that the scientists and doctors appeared to be so divided may have contributed to the perception that the experts were hiding evidence of possible harm. 

In fact, we must recognize the phenomenon that fluoride accumulates in the body. Healthy adult kidneys excrete 50 to 60% of the fluoride ingested each day (Marier & Rose 1971). The remainder accumulates in the body, largely in calcifying tissues such as the bones and pineal gland (Luke 1997, 2001). Infants and children excrete less fluoride from their kidneys and take up to 80% of ingested fluoride into their bones (Ekstrand 1994). The fluoride concentration in bone steadily increases over a lifetime (NRC 2006). 

From these above statements, my point of view for giving some clarifications from these contradictory concepts are: 

• If we use chemicals to a certain extent, and with an appropriate dose, chemicals will be a factor that helps us to solve many problems in life or helps us to eliminate or prevent certain human diseases.

• If we use too much, the risk of adverse reactions will be unavoidable. 

In the case of fluorine is no exception. The American National Research Council concluded that, after 55 years, it is safe to introduce fluoride into domestic water sources less than 1mg/L (which already has naturally in US soil. So we don’t need to add). There are specific results showing that the presence of fluoride below these concentrations reduces the incidence of tooth decay in children. 

·       Finally, adding more fluoride into drinking water, to me, you may have more risk of damaged teeth and gum inflammation. Excess amounts of fluoride in drinking water can cause dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, arthritis, bone damage, osteoporosis, muscular damage, fatigue, joint-related problems, and chronicle issues. And, according to Dr. Izabella Wentz, ingesting too much fluoride can cause damage to the thyroid gland and hypothyroid symptoms. 

·       Teeth will become dark brown, and gums often become infected and numb. The discoloration of teeth is explained as follows: When teeth are growing and exposed to fluoride for a long time, the fluoride element will penetrate deeper into the dentin and the teeth will turn brown and the gum became dark (gum inflammation) as the case of people living in Ninh Hoa, Vietnam. This disease is called dental fluorosis.

 Mai Thanh Truyết

Speech for 8/19/2023 at Spokane, WA