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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Luke Oldfield discusses the art of engaging with a ‘Non-Opinion’. This article was written for the New Zealand Skeptic Journal issue number 114. MSoF hopes to write regular articles for the Journal. Become a member of the NZ Skeptics to get a copy. When the doors to Hamilton’s first Carl’s Jr. franchise finally swung [...]
Feedback Stan Litras from Great Teeth Dental Care left us feedback to our Facts on Fluoride Action Network’s visit to NZ press release. Hi Dan, Ken and pals. My wife, Ellen, does not have a Facebook account as you are aware. As a favour, she has requested I post her quote. As her husband and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gerry Byrne, who runs Fluoridation of Irish Water is Harmless Facebook page sent this to Dublin City Councillors today: Lifting the Curtain on the Anti-Fluoridation movement A recent email to your good selves from a Mr Owen Boyden, of the Fluoride Free Towns campaign, has led me to follow the trail of money [...]
Dr Broadbent recently finished his study into I.Q loss in children to fluoride. This found no link and this has upset the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) no end. They have been dining out on the "Harvard" papers for years and even regurgitated them last year to start all over again. The fact articles like this have [...]
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 [...]
