Anti-fluoridation lobbyist Jane Beck targeted school children in Thames today with emotive and deliberately misleading leaflets. The students were attending a screening of "That Sugar Film" as part of their health studies at Thames High School. Beck handed out the leaflets as the students left the screening. In keeping with the theme of the film, [...]
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 [...]
Today we have a special guest post from Zane a District Councillor in Taupo on the abuse from anti-fluoridation activists. We thank Zane for sharing his situation. We recently wrote a press release on an upcoming anti-fluoride event in Taupo. Lake Taupo Photo by Tom Hall. To whom it may concern, My name is Zane Cozens and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Associate Professor Rita Barnett-Rose replied back to my critique on her paper “Compulsory water fluoridation: justifiable public health benefit or human experimental research without informed consent”. I like to thank Rita for getting an independent review of her article from several scientists and agreeing that one should use primary research and not advocacy groups. I’ll be doing [...]
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 [...]
