Scientists are dismissing claims that fluoride will be removed from New Zealand's water supplies within the next two years following a series of lectures by Dr. Paul Connett, executive director of the Fluoridation Action Network, that begin in Wellington tomorrow. Making Sense of Fluoride spokesperson, Dr. Ken Perrott said "Connett is substituting wishes for reality [...]
I didn't intend to write another post on this subject so soon after the last one, but a story on yahoo.com's news feed has really annoyed me. I know journalists these days are seriously under pressure, but that doesn't really justify taking a 'press release' from a known activist organisation and running it uncritically ie [...]
We've frequently been told that '14 Nobel prize winners in chemistry & medicine oppose fluoridation', which, while superficially impressive, is really just an argument from authority. (Most of those listed are dead, so it's difficult to gain personal confirmation of their stance.) It's also a fairly trivial figure, as Terry Cuttress has pointed out: "Since [...]
Readers will recognise this graph - similar ones are always being presented to argue that there is no difference between improvement in oral health of people in fluoridated and unfluoridated countries. This one is from Connett's book and he says of it "there is little obvious difference in the rate of decline in tooth decay [...]
Various commenters on the Uni's Facebook page for our Google Hangout earlier this week have urged me & my colleagues to read The Case Against Fluoride, by Drs Connett, Beck & Micklem. One of the reasons we should do is, we're told, is because it's got a whole 80 pages of references (or, as one commenter [...]
You may have read that the The New Zealand Dental Association being appalled at the Hamilton billboards: http://www.voxy.co.nz/health/dental-association-appalled-anti-fluoride-billboards/5/166869 FANNZ has released this statement: "Informed, Courageous Dentists do indeed say “No” to Fluoridation Press Release Fluoride Action Network NZ fannz.org.nz Wellington, 7 September 2013 The NZ Dental Association is about to implement rules to stifle dissent [...]