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of the Rhodes Trust in charge of approving Rhodes scholarships [Bill Clinton, among others], visiting professor at the [Rockefeller-endowed] University of Chicago and chairman of Lloydβs Bank, one of Englandβs Big Five.β
A NOT H E R A SPEC T OF Nazi medical science employed in America involves the toxic chemical sodium fluoride. The controversy over the fluoridation of municipal water supplies has raged since the 1950s and continues today. Aluminum oxide is extracted from clay and bauxite. Through a chemical called cryolite the material is converted into aluminum. A by-product of this process is sodium fluoride, which for many years was used as a rat poison. One recent dictionary defined fluoride as a βpoisonous pale yellow gaseous element of the halogen group.β Sodium fluoride also acts as an enzyme inhibitor and has been linked by several studiesβsuch as a 1982 report from the University of Iowaβto Alzheimerβs disease, a degenerative and fatal neural disease named for the German doctor Alois Alzheimer. According to the Alzheimer Association, this brain-destroying disease is the seventh leading cause of death in America today. Although aluminum has been associated with Alzheimerβs, such claims have been disputed. Some have claimed that Alzheimerβs disease is more common in areas where the aluminum content in the water supply is highest, but the method and results of these studies have been questioned. But it is true that, in 1986, the Reagan administrationβs Environmental Protection Agency raised the βsafeβ level of sodium fluoride in public water supplies from 2 parts per million gallons to 4 parts, even though one part per million has been shown to impair neurological efficiency. In October 2007, despite βheated hearingsβ in 2003, the Los Angelesβbased Metropolitan Water District began fluoridating the drinking water of 18 million Southern Californians in six counties, including San Diego. According to a report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a Washington-based, nonprofit organization whose mission is to βprotect public health and the environment,β the plan to fluoridate water in South-