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. Yes, there was a lot of research conducted about fluoridation in the 1940s and ’50s, but many more studies have [...]
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 Making Sense of Fluoride is noticed as a scientific affiliation by the journal. The citation is: Perrott, K. W. (2015). [...]
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? https://www.facebook.com/sillyantifluoridationists/photos/851078804933916/ Personally, I see this choice of words disgusting and sounds like they have no idea on the traumatic effects. [...]
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 wrong about fluoridation?" This is little more than a "typo" where the words ‘one IQ point’ had been wrongly substituted [...]
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 [...]
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 pseudoscience around fluoride. -MSoF Team PS: Here is some of our most popular Facebook posts for this year. […]
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 (NZOHS) which had sufficient statistical power and was adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, and neighbourhood deprivation. There was a New [...]
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 of assurance for those interested in researching a new topic, especially those with a preconceived viewpoint. A false authority fallacy [...]
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 always next year. :-) The Bravo award is an award from the NZ Skeptics to groups and people who have [...]
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 are made on the basis of a misdiagnosis. Because of the risks, self-diagnosis is officially discouraged by governments, physicians, and [...]
