Since the High Court judgement came out there's been a lot of news coverage on this issue – and an awful lot of misinformation & just plain fear tactics (particularly in social media) from those opposed to community water fluoridation (CWF). Last night's news coverage had this from TV One News (skip to 5:43) and […]
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community water fluoridation is scientifically sound – high court judgement
We've been waiting a while for the High Court judgement on the scientific validity of community water fluoridation, and that judgement is now available. And it supports the science – see this report on the OneNews webpage. (Hamilton City Council, please take note.) The following content is from the Science Media Centre website: Court rejects fluoridation […]
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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 […]
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My friend & blog-buddy Grant drew my attention to a story about osteosarcoma at stuff.co.nz – and to the comments section, where one commenter raised the issue of a claimed link between this rare form of cancer and community water fluoridation (CWF). This particular claim has surfaced quite a lot lately, as anti-fluoride groups target […]
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This is something that I posted on Making Sense of Fluoride, but thought I'd re-post here; it deserves to be widely read. I've highlighted some of the main points made by the authors as they address issues frequently raised by those opposed to community water fluoridation. The Science-Based Medicine blog is an excellent resource and […]
Continue readingan impressive-sounding number of references, (therefore good?)
Various commenters on the Uni's FB 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 put […]
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A few days back the Uni communications office asked if I'd be willing to chair a google hangout panel discussion. Subject: the chemistry of fluoride. I'm always interested in trying new things, so I said yes, and yesterday we had our hangout and this is the result: It was an interesting experience and – from […]
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Any discussion around water fluoridation will bring up quite a number of concerns, but increasingly – on-line anyway – conspiracy theories also come to the fore. I think the latter need to be addressed, but not at the risk of ignoring or failing to address the former. Worrying about the nature of what's in our […]
Continue readingfluoridation – it pays to read carefully
I've spent a bit of time lately on the Making Sense of Fluoride Facebook page: I realise there's no convincing the committed anti-fluoride activists who spend time there, but like the other science-y people on the page, I'm hoping to provide information (& counter misinformation) for the 'lurkers' there: the people who visit & read […]
Continue readingi’m (not) in the money, and hitler wasn’t into fluoride
Every now & then (well, fairly often, if I'm honest) I join in discussion at the Making Sense of Fluoride page on Facebook. This page was set up to discuss the actual science (as distinct from personal opinions) around what's become the very fraught issue of water fluoridation, and over the last few weeks the […]
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