Guest post: Credibility question is a no brainer really
Dr Broadbent recently finished his study into I.Q loss in children to fluoride. This found no link and this has upset the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) no end. They have been dining out on the [...]
Opinion piece spreading around as fact (Update)
I don't usually worry about opinion pieces, but the “Fluoridation is false security” piece (on page 2) by Lois Titchener had spread around the anti-fluoride groups as fact. My reply (on page 2): "Your newspaper published [...]
Press release: Anti Fluoridation Advertisements Rejected by The Advertising Complaints Authority
Over the past week, the Advertising Complaints Authority (ASA) has upheld three complaints made against the anti-fluoride group (Fluoride Action Network of NZ) FANNZ. The complaints involved several advertisements authorized by FANNZ and placed in [...]
Convinced FANNZ, after a 3-hour discussion
We had a meeting with FANNZ, after a 3-hour discussion we have finally convinced them that fluoridated water just has fluoride ions and not fluorine (an extremely reactive gas) and fluoride ions are safe to [...]
Trouble makers complaining about the costs of their own troublemaking
Fluoride Free Hamilton is up to their tactics of misrepresentation and scaremongering again. They are raising financial scares with the assertion that the "unbudgeted cost of getting the fluoride plant back into working order" is [...]
Letter to NZDJ (Misinformation of Fluoridation) – I was asked if I was an algorithm.
I recently wrote a letter to the editor in the NZ Dental Journal (NZDJ) about Stan Litras. The fun part was when he ventured the opinion to the editor that the letter might be computer-generated, [...]
Neurotoxin Lancet meme wrong
Here is a meme posted in anti-fluoridation groups following the publication by Grandjean and Landrigan (2014), Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity, in the Lancet. There are so many things wrong with this meme. Firstly, this [...]
Press release: Group Welcomes High Court Decision
The online advocacy group, Making Sense of Fluoride are welcoming the recent High Court decision to dismiss an attempt by New Health New Zealand to find the fluoridation of water unlawful. The decision will remove [...]
Dr Paul Connett’s NZ talk on fluoridation
So I went to one of Dr Paul Connett’s talks on fluoridation. He is a great public speaker, so I can see why people idolise him. It didn't surprise me that Connett believes in some [...]
Press release: Making Sense of Fluoride
Scientists are dismissing claims that fluoride will be removed from New Zealand's water supplies within the next two years following a series of lectures by Dr. Paul Connett, executive director of the Fluoridation Action Network, [...]