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  • Water Fluoridation Linked to Diabetes and Low IQ

    In the video above, you can watch professor Paul Connett, Ph.D., director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), debate professor Mike Berridge, Ph.D., of the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research in New Zealand on the topic of water fluoridation. This debate was 12 years in the making; it’s taken that long to find someone willing […]

  • No Evidence for Fluoridated Water to Result in Less Cavities

    Two-thirds of Americans drink tap water that has added fluoride. Unlike other chemicals added to water, which are intended to treat the water itself, fluoride is intended to treat the people who drink the water, whether they want the treatment or not. As the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) puts it, “Fluoridating water supplies can thus […]

  • It’s in the water: the debate over fluoridation lives on

    Many people take for granted the addition of fluoride into public drinking water systems that aims to prevent tooth decay. It’s a seven-decade old public health effort. But it’s not nearly as universally accepted as one might think. At least seven cities or towns across the country debated it just this summer. For example, Wellington, Fla., decided to add […]

  • Shrewsbury town meeting rejects effort to stop water fluoridation

    SHREWSBURY – Town meeting rejected an article that would have discontinued the town’s 63-year practice of putting fluoride in the drinking water. Town meeting last year also turned down an attempt by Bryan Moss, Precinct 9 member, to stop fluoridation of the town’s drinking water. Mr. Moss and two other proponents pointed out that people […]

  • Worried about Hull water fluoridation plans? Here’s what you need to know

    Health bosses will decide next week if they will make a formal request to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to add fluoride to the city’s water supply. Around 250,000 people in the city and between 49,000 and 87,000 people in the East Riding including Hornsea, Withernsea, Anlaby, Willerby and Dunswell could be affected. Members of Hull’s […]

  • It’s in the water: The debate over fluoridation lives on in California and nationwide

     Note from Fluoride Action Network: While the following article was first published on September 23 in USA today and rerun in several publications across the country, there’s a focus on California in this version that wasn’t in the original. There are also deletions and rewording of some paragraphs from the original. In the middle of […]

  • Prominent MD joins chorus demanding Feds investigate fluoridation

    Prominent physician, Mark Hyman, MD, author of 9 New York Times best-selling books and a Huffington Post  medical editor warns that swallowing fluoride poses risks to the brain and thyroid, and that communities of color and underserved communities are disproportionately harmed. Dr. Hyman supports, “federal investigative hearings looking into why our cities and towns are allowed […]

  • Group begins battle to take fluoride out of Knoxville drinking water

    One side calls it extremely harmful to our health, while the other hails it as a major medical achievement. Fluoride has become so ingrained in America since the early 1960s that it is nearly impossible not to ingest it in some form or fashion constantly on a daily basis. Ashley Graham-Smith of Powell is on […]

  • San José Iturbide: Warning issued over contaminated aquifer

    The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has issued an aquifer contamination warning for the Guanajuato municipality of San José Iturbide given high levels of radioactivity detected in at least 2,500 wells. UNAM researcher Marcos Adrían Ortega told the newspaper Milenio that at least half of those wells supply water for farming, and that five people […]

  • Former U.N. Ambassador Calls for Fluoridegate Scandal Hearings

    Andrew Young, former Atlanta Mayor and U.N. Ambassador has written a letter to the Georgia Governor Nathan Deal calling for hearings to investigate the safety of fluoridation and the disproportionate harm caused to various sub-populations.  Ambassador Young wrote a similar letter in 2011, and joined many other civil rights leaders in condemning fluoridation. You can […]