Declan Waugh is continually searching the scientific literature to find something, anything, he can use to discredit community water fluoridation. Problem is, he really doesn’t read things properly and any close checking of his claims show they are just not warranted.
However, his lack of checking must have left him with a red face the other day when he claimed that the abstract of a paper had been changed to hide the dangers of fluoride!
Trouble is – he was confused and was actually looking at two completely different papers!
They were:
- Lennart Krook and Ronald R Minor (1998) FLUORIDE AND ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE, Fluoride 31(4), 177-182
- Khokher MA1, Dandona P (1990).Fluoride stimulates[3H]thymidine incorporation and alkaline phosphatase production by human osteoblasts. Metabolism. 39(11):1118-21.
No wonder the abstracts were different!
Oh well, I guess it is easy to confuse “Krook” and “Khokher” when you are so busy cherry picking and confirming one’s bias that checking and understanding is the last thing on your mind.
Still, it’s a warning isn’t it. This self-proclaimed “Scientist and fluoride researcher” really has no understanding of research – or even how to read scientific papers.
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