Happy Birthday to Community Water Fluoridation!
Some things don't age gracefully, but community water fluoridation is looking great at the age of 70. This inexpensive strategy saves money and continues to reduce the rate of tooth decay for children and adults. [...]
Accepted for publication in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology
Making Sense of Fluoride includes several members who are researching the fluoridation issue. A submission from the group has now been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology. Because of this [...]
Fluoride Free NZ Hamilton Coordinator posts “fluoride is rape”
This is the second time that I've heard someone call "fluoride is rape". This was said from the Fluoride Free NZ Hamilton Coordinator. For those who are against fluoride, do you agree with these strong words? [...]
Pathetic when critics have to rely on attacking typos in their critiques
The authors of the NZ Fluoridation Review are correcting a few mistakes in the report which slipped through proof-reading. I described one of the mistakes in my blog article "Did the Royal Society get it [...]
Declan Waugh makes a fool of himself on Facebook
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 [...]
Enjoy the Holiday season and have a Happy New Year
Hope everyone is enjoying the Holiday season and have a Happy New Year! We also like to thank everyone who has helped us greatly over the year to fight the battle against scaremongering, misinformation and [...]
Attacks continue on the “40% less tooth decay” statement
Here in New Zealand anti-fluoridationists continue to attack the statement: that there is '40% less tooth decay, on average, for children in fluoridated areas'. This fact comes from the 2009 New Zealand Oral Health Survey [...]
Back to Basics – Know your fallacy
Making Sense of Fluoride presents the "Back to Basics - Know your fallacy" meme series. The internet is undoubtedly a great place to discover and learn new information. It does, however, create a false sense [...]
Runners-up for the Bravo award
Awesome! We have now hit 1,500 likes on our Facebook page! On another note, we got mentioned as runners-up for a Bravo award at the NZ Skeptics conference 2014. We didn't win but there is [...]
The harm of self-diagnosis
Click to enlarge The only people I've found that say fluoride causes large problems for them are always through self-diagnosis. Self-diagnosis is prone to error and may be potentially dangerous if inappropriate decisions [...]