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 "Harvard" papers for years and even regurgitated them last year to start all over again. The fact articles like this have [...]
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 a letter entitled ‘fluoridation is false security’ which I believe is misleading. Hydrofluorosilicic acid (HFA) is no more toxic than [...]
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 the Kapiti News earlier this year. The Kapiti News stated that it had received many phone calls from agitated members [...]
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 drink at 0.7-1.0ppm. These fluoride ions are the same, natural or otherwise. They apologised for the confusion and have decided [...]
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 $100,000. Wrong. The council had said "Costs for council to reintroduce fluoride is $100,000, which has been considered as part [...]
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, and I might be an algorithm. I had to phone to confirm that I exist. Misinformation of Fluoridation Dear [...]
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 is a review, with no original research showing "fluoride" at the concentrations in drinking water acts as a neurotoxin. The [...]
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 any legal or judicial questions that may have concerned councils, allowing them to go ahead with water fluoridation. However, New [...]
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 kind of conspiracy around the area of fluoridation. A couple of his talks that I know of had similar questions [...]
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, that begin in Wellington tomorrow. Making Sense of Fluoride spokesperson, Dr. Ken Perrott said "Connett is substituting wishes for reality [...]