We have had plenty of gish gallopers on the Making Sense of Fluoride Facebook page and dealing with one is usually a waste of time. You would spend many long hours reading and then debunking materials. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes if you are quick enough you get a nice win. The Gish Gallop [...]
Today we have a special guest post from Zane a District Councillor in Taupo on the abuse from anti-fluoridation activists. We thank Zane for sharing his situation. We recently wrote a press release on an upcoming anti-fluoride event in Taupo. Lake Taupo Photo by Tom Hall. To whom it may concern, My name is Zane Cozens and [...]
This will be the final post on the public discussion with associated professor Rita Barnett-rose. Rita has told me she not be following up on my last reply with her. She says "I have attempted to address some of your initial concerns in my current draft/revision. However, we clearly disagree on the reasonable legal/ethical parameters of [...]
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I have contacted Associate Professor Rita Barnett-Rose about her unpublished paper “Compulsory water fluoridation: justifiable public health benefit or human experimental research without informed consent” (you can read a copy here: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 [...]
