To the editor:
Where did you get Carma Wadley - or where does she get her information? The credibility of the Deseret News just took a nosedive.If Leona K. Hawks is an expert then we are all in deep trouble. She is behind the times so far that I am shocked you would quote her as some kind of expert. I could hardly believe what I read in your paper on Jan. 21 under Consumer Update.
Dr. Herbert Schwartz, a biological chemist of Cumberland County College in Vineland, N.J., says, "Putting chlorine into the water supply is like starting a time bomb. Cancer, heart trouble, premature senility - both mental and physical - are conditions attributable to chlorine-treated water supplies. It is making us grow old before our time, by producing symptoms of aging such as hardening of the arteries, etc. I feel that if chlorine were now proposed for the first time to be used in drinking water, it would be banned by the FDA."
Dr. D. Joseph Price, chlorine researcher, calls the widely used purifier an "insidious poison which causes heart attacks, strokes, senility and sexual impotency."
Ralph Nader devotes 700 pages to document the stark facts that tens of millions of Americans are drinking water from "poisoned lakes and streams." Chemicals and viruses are actually passed into household for everyday use and can cause cancer, birth defects and genetic damage.
In Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo, some of the people drink the water right out of the tap - chlorine, impurities and all. In Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, etc., etc., nobody drinks the water.
Is Carma Wadley writing truth for her readers? Or is she writing some kind of fiction? Get the facts.
Dr. Gerald H. Bagley
Salt Lake City