No one should worry about fluoridation, despite the alarming headlines stirred up by a new study from Canada, according to Making Sense of Fluoride. The study, published in the American Medical Association’s paediatric journal, claims to link higher levels of fluoride exposure in pregnant women to lower IQ scores in young children. ‘Experts have been [...]
Media release Thousands of rigorous studies - including recent large-scale data from Sweden and Canada (as well as our own famous Dunedin Study) confirm that community water fluoridation improves oral health and has no detrimental effect on IQ. Making Sense of Fluoride President Daniel Ryan is spreading that message to counter the misinformation of anti-fluoride [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Next level BS is a website full of videos that look at the evidence for a number subjects ranging from detoxing to shape shifting reptilians. Episode 38 on fluoride interested us, but we found some misinformation and it had a disappointing conclusion. We have created a video (our first) to debunk the misinformation and make the scientific [...]
Making Sense of Fluoride includes several members who are researching the fluoridation issue. A submission from the group has now been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology. Because of this Making Sense of Fluoride is noticed as a scientific affiliation by the journal. The citation is: Perrott, K. W. (2015). [...]
The authors of the NZ Fluoridation Review are correcting a few mistakes in the report which slipped through proof-reading. I described one of the mistakes in my blog article "Did the Royal Society get it wrong about fluoridation?" This is little more than a "typo" where the words ‘one IQ point’ had been wrongly substituted [...]
We received this school project essay and I say it is spot on! What would you grade it? The writer wants to stay anonymous. The Anti-Fluoride Campaign: Fluoride is a horrific substance. It is a systemic poison, causing skeletal fluorosis, organ failure, and lowers children’s IQ. Upon consumption, it is converted to hydrogen fluoride [...]
