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 [...]
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 [...]
This is my second response to Associate Professor Rita Barnett-Rose to her paper “Compulsory water fluoridation: justifiable public health benefit or human experimental research without informed consent”. Again I wish to thank Rita for acknowledging in that papers should be referenced accurately by using citations to the original sources rather than simply referring to activist [...]
Associate Professor Rita Barnett-Rose replied back to my critique on her paper “Compulsory water fluoridation: justifiable public health benefit or human experimental research without informed consent”. I like to thank Rita for getting an independent review of her article from several scientists and agreeing that one should use primary research and not advocacy groups. I’ll be doing [...]
I have contacted Associate Professor Rita Barnett-Rose about her unpublished paper “Compulsory water fluoridation: justifiable public health benefit or human experimental research without informed consent” (you can read a copy here: http://works.bepress.com/rita_barnett/3/). It concluded that “The evidence continues to suggest that compulsory water fluoridation is no longer justifiable as a public health benefit” and “human [...]
Anti-fluoridationists will continue to try to dupe the public with their articles on the latest review "Health effects of water fluoridation: A review of the scientific evidence". One press release item shocked me a little that they twisted the report and said it "confirms fluoridation must end". You can read that press release here written by Stan Litras. 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 [...]