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 into the proverbial fluoridated waters and misinterpreted yet another study about fluoride effectiveness. He had a bit of help this [...]
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 made since 2008. You can see the top complainants, most complained about companies, complaints by product and complaints by media, [...]
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 (FIND) and represented Fluoride Free NZ and Fluoride Free Taranaki. This is the second discussion on the meeting, the first [...]
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 conclusion that you have been severely damaged by the fluoridation campaign. You may or may not know that fluoridation of [...]
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 Kelsen (Dental surgeon) 9:14 Taranaki District Health Board, Deneille Walden (DentalTherapist/Oral Health Educator) 18:13 Taranaki District Health Board, Dr Jonathan [...]
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. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes if you are quick enough you get a nice win. The Gish Gallop [...]
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 School. Beck handed out the leaflets as the students left the screening. In keeping with the theme of the film, [...]
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 education, stripping off her clothes in the front of Dáil Éireann to highlight that there is a worldwide conspiracy to [...]
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 Fluoride a Society formed to counter the misinformation around water fluoridation. I and many members who comprise scientists, dentists, toxicologists [...]
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 At a minuscule cost, fluoridation has improved the lives of millions of Americans, and should remain a key part of [...]
