Ooops, [Newsweek] Did It Again.
Guest post by Dr. Charles D. Payet To paraphrase Britney Spears (my apologies to all), “Ooops, [Newsweek] Did It Again.” Oh yes, sadly, they did - their fearless and misinformed journalist Douglas Main has jumped [...]
Fluoride Free NZ ranks 13th worst NZ organisation by ASA complaints
An organisation I helped found, The Society for Science Based Healthcare, has created an excellent tool for looking at Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) complaints - thanks to Mark Honeychurch. The website looks at all ASA complaints [...]
Selling fluoride misinformation to council members
Teresa Goodin, a First Light Flower Essence practitioner, presented a submission on fluoridation at New Plymouth Council’s 3rd June Council Meeting. She was talking on behalf of Stan Litras from the Fluoride Information Network for Dentists [...]
Water fluoridation does not have a feminising effect
Going with today's theme; I was told in a comment by Kevin Galalae: "Judging by your membership in the group “Support Gay Adoption NZ” one can also surmise that you are gay which only reinforces the [...]
Health experts talk about fluoridation
Health experts talk about fluoridation at the New Plymouth District Council meeting 3rd June 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_isUyzHrLSs Experts who spoke Taranaki District Health Board, Rosemary Clement (Chief Executive Officer) 0:03 Taranaki District Health Board, Andrea [...]
Gish galloping successfully vanquished
We have had plenty of gish gallopers on the Making Sense of Fluoride Facebook page and dealing with one is usually a waste of time. You would spend many long hours reading and then debunking materials. [...]
Press release: Anti-fluoridation propaganda targets school children in Thames
Anti-fluoridation lobbyist Jane Beck targeted school children in Thames today with emotive and deliberately misleading leaflets. The students were attending a screening of "That Sugar Film" as part of their health studies at Thames High [...]
Guest Post: Angel healer spreading misinformation in Ireland
A satirical view of the TGAF by Mick Flavin. At first, it sounded like the plot of a particularly funny episode of the “Big Bang Theory”... An “angel healer” with no scientific [...]
Talking about death threats on RadioLIVE
Christopher Atkinson our legal adviser left this message for RadioLIVE. Have a listen here (starts at 1:08): Message that was sent in: "Hi Sean, I am a member of Making sense of [...]
Dr Paul Connett gets schooled
Recently there was an editorial piece by the Boston Globe Editorial Board on How we learned to stop worrying and love fluoridated water. This compared anti-fluoridationists to people from the anti-vaccine movement and ended with [...]