milk Archives - Making Sense of Fluoride

Dr Paul Connett gets schooled

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 [...]

By Daniel Ryan|2017-07-01T17:43:08+12:00April 26th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: ADA, CDC, ethics, FAN, Fluoride Action Network, forced, milk, NRC, Paul Connett, Philippe Grandjean, Steve Slott, WHO, William Hirzy|2 Comments

‘Other countries don’t do it’ excuse

I've heard the "other countries don't do it" excuse many times when I bring up water fluoridation. People seem to forget that 1.1 billion people do not have access to an improved source of drinking water while another 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation. Every year, unsafe water, coupled with a lack of basic sanitation, [...]