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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I didn't intend to write another post on this subject so soon after the last one, but a story on yahoo.com's news feed has really annoyed me. I know journalists these days are seriously under pressure, but that doesn't really justify taking a 'press release' from a known activist organisation and running it uncritically ie [...]
I just finished a little project of mine. I apologise for any offense in advance. http://HowDoesFluorideCauseCancer.com/ I'm personally tired of the repeated claims of fluoridated water causing cancer. If you find any scientific mistakes feel free to point them out, make sure to back up all evidence with peer-reviewed papers. This look into cancer is [...]
My friend & blog-buddy Grant drew my attention to a story about osteosarcoma at stuff.co.nz - and to the comments section, where one commenter raised the issue of a claimed link between this rare form of cancer and community water fluoridation (CWF). This particular claim has surfaced quite a lot lately, as anti-fluoride groups target [...]