For Immediate Release An extraordinary press release from Fluoride Free NZ highlights the inconsistency of the group’s position on science - and then attempts to re-write local history. The release this week cites the new data from the highly-respected Dunedin longitudinal study showing that exposure to lead in the ‘70s reduced children’s IQ by about [...]
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 [...]
On the first official day of the Thames fluoridation referendum campaign, eye-scorching fluorescent signs proliferated around town proclaiming all sorts of emotive nonsense. It was the opening salvo in the arsenal of misinformation foisted on our community over the weeks until November 5th. When Thames Coromandel District Council began to review fluoridation back in 2012, [...]
An organisation I helped found, The Society for Science Based Healthcare, has created an excellent tool for looking at Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) complaints - thanks to Mark Honeychurch. The website looks at all ASA complaints made since 2008. You can see the top complainants, most complained about companies, complaints by product and complaints by media, [...]
Teresa Goodin, a First Light Flower Essence practitioner, presented a submission on fluoridation at New Plymouth Council’s 3rd June Council Meeting. She was talking on behalf of Stan Litras from the Fluoride Information Network for Dentists (FIND) and represented Fluoride Free NZ and Fluoride Free Taranaki. This is the second discussion on the meeting, the first [...]
Dr. Paul Connett, director of the US anti-fluoride activist organisation Fluoride Action Network (FAN), will be speaking in NZ next week. He is accompanied by Dr. William Hirzy, a staff member of FAN. They will speak at meetings organised by Fluoride Free NZ (FFNZ) – a local activist group affiliated to FAN – in Thames [...]
This is the second time that I've heard someone call "fluoride is rape". This was said from the Fluoride Free NZ Hamilton Coordinator. For those who are against fluoride, do you agree with these strong words? https://www.facebook.com/sillyantifluoridationists/photos/851078804933916/ Personally, I see this choice of words disgusting and sounds like they have no idea on the traumatic effects. [...]
Here in New Zealand anti-fluoridationists continue to attack the statement: that there is '40% less tooth decay, on average, for children in fluoridated areas'. This fact comes from the 2009 New Zealand Oral Health Survey (NZOHS) which had sufficient statistical power and was adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, and neighbourhood deprivation. There was a New [...]
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 [...]
I was interviewed on Sunday for the Skepticism Today podcast about fluoridation. Skepticism Today is an hour-long monthly skeptical podcast talk about recent news and events of interest to skeptics – both NZ based and international. Episode 3 has been released today. My interview is at 16:04. Have a listen here. Also for those who [...]
