About Daniel Ryan

Daniel Ryan is from Wellington and works as a software developer. He is a co-founder and president of Making Sense of Fluoride, a committee member for the NZ Skeptics and a co-founder and committee member of the Society for Science Based Healthcare. He also helps run a health activism group in a pub. Contact email: [email protected]

Exposing poll abuse from anti-fluoridationists

What is it with anti-fluoridationists abusing online polls? Over the years I've seen many Facebook pages and groups abusing website polls, just to make it seem like more people are against fluoridation than there actually are. It doesn't matter how small the website is, which country the poll is from, or how insignificant polling is. With a new [...]

By |2016-10-20T09:15:58+13:00February 21st, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Debunking Anti-Fluoride Woofuckery and Pseudoscience

A guest post by Ron Johnson from The New Horsemen, edited by Daniel Ryan. Part 15 of The New Horsemens FAQ woofuckery collection. Since its inception in the 1940s, the idea of fluoridating water has given rise to fear and suspicion with claims ranging from evil Nazi/Commie/government mind control conspiracies to cancer causation to decreased IQ and [...]

By |2017-06-14T15:01:39+12:00February 18th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

More Strikes Against the Credibility of Fluoride Free NZ as Whakatane Councillors reconsider their decision

For Immediate Release - 10 February 2016 Two more rulings released today find Fluoride Free New Zealand is not a reliable source of information - and MSoF president Daniel Ryan is urging Whakatane District Councillors to pay attention to the rulings when they revisit the issue of fluoridation tomorrow. The decisions by the Advertising Standards [...]

By |2016-10-20T09:15:59+13:00February 10th, 2016|Categories: Media|Tags: , , , , |3 Comments

Russell Orr’s open letter to the Whakatane Council

Whakatane District Councillor Russell Orr has written this open letter around the whole fluoridation situation. Being against fluoride being added to the water hasn't stopped him from pointing out all the flaws in this decision.   Open Letter to Councillors We are to have another debate on the fluoride issue and I make no apologies for helping to make [...]

By |2016-10-20T09:15:59+13:00February 7th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , |19 Comments

NZ government must act

For Immediate Release Making Sense of Fluoride believes Whakatane is the latest local community to pay a high price for the government’s continued lack of action on its own child health report into fluoridation. ‘Whakatane District Council has been hoodwinked by fluoridation opponents into removing this proven protection from its public water supplies,’ says making [...]

By |2016-01-31T17:12:55+13:00January 31st, 2016|Categories: Media|Tags: , , , , , |1 Comment

Water sculpture erected to commemorate CWF

Happy 71st birthday, water fluoridation: born January 25, 1945 in Grand Rapids, MI. This water sculpture was erected to commemorate the 50th anniversary of fluoridation. On the plaque: On January 25, 1945 Grand Rapids was the first community in the world to reduce tooth decay by adding fluoride to its water supply. This sculpture was commissioned [...]

By |2016-01-26T22:20:01+13:00January 26th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Thames Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Anti-Fluoridation Efforts

For Immediate Release 5 November 2015 Thames Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Anti-Fluoridation Efforts MSoF is greatly encouraged that the people of Thames have voted decisively to continue fluoridation and retain the safe and proven protection that fluoridation has delivered to the community since 1971. The referendum results are particularly pleasing in light of the relentless campaign [...]

By |2015-11-06T11:50:08+13:00November 5th, 2015|Categories: Media|0 Comments

Anti-fluoridation campaign in Thames breaches Advertising rules

For Immediate Release - 4 November 2015 Anti-fluoridation campaign in Thames breaches Advertising rules As voting in the Thames fluoridation referendum enters its final hours, MSoF has learned that complaints against the opponents' campaign signs and material have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. Details of the complaint will be released publicly on Monday [...]

By |2015-11-06T11:48:14+13:00November 4th, 2015|Categories: Media|2 Comments

Dr Connett distorts the Dunedin IQ fluoride study

Dr Paul Connett attacks the 2014 study ‘Community Water Fluoridation and Intelligence: Prospective Study in New Zealand’. You can watch the video here: The main quote from Dr Connett is: “It was an awful study, it has been debunked, because there was practically no control, you had 1400 people living [...]

By |2016-10-20T09:15:59+13:00August 13th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |7 Comments

Ooops, [Newsweek] Did It Again.

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 [...]

By |2019-09-24T08:46:34+12:00August 2nd, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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