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Science and Alternative Facts: About fluoridation, false dilemmas and fake news
Undeterred by mounting evidence proving the dangers of fluoride, power, prestige, and paychecks continue to motivate fluoridationists. Despite the fact that the prestigious international 2015 Cochrane panel, like the 2000 York panel, found the fluoridation literature to be of abysmally poor quality, at high risk of bias, and with no evidence of safety… Despite the […]
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Druango: Fluoridation opponent calls it ‘mass medication’
Jim Forleo is a local chiropractor who has been one of the most vocal opponents of the fluoride added to Durango’s drinking water system. He said the argument boils down to three major points: choice, source and health effects. He pointed to the Federal Drug Administration’s website, which classifies fluoride as a drug. He said […]
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FAN Responds to the EPA’s Decision to Put Children at Risk
Latest Community Victories Before we get to FAN’s response to the EPA’s recent decision, I’d like to highlight three communities in the U.S. that have recently voted against water fluoridation: Greenfield MA (pop. 18,000): The Greenfield Board of Health heard overwhelming opposition from residents and local organic businesses during two public meetings on fluoridation, ultimately leading the […]
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PFAS: Researchers can track hazardous chemicals from fast-food wrappers in the body
Research teams from the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Medicine and the University of Notre Dame have developed a new method that enables researchers to radiolabel three forms of perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances and track the fate of these chemicals when they enter the body. This is a significant and timely advancement […]
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Call to Gov to Act on Precautionary Principle with Fluoride
“It was petrol in the 70s and 80s – what’s the equivalent today?” presenter Petra Bagust asked on TV3’s programme The Project, which covered this week’s news about lead exposure lowering IQ by more than 4 points. “The answer is fluoride,” says Mary Byrne, National Coordinator for Fluoride Free NZ. “All of the discussion on […]
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Update from Down Under and the Precautionary Principle with Fluoride
**MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The 6th Citizen Conference on Fluoride will be held on September 16-18 in Washington, D.C. (at the same hotel where we held the FAN conference in 2014). In the coming weeks we will provide additional hotel and registration information. Stay tuned. ** Paul Connett in Western Australia In the weeks leading up to election […]
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Confusion from Pro-Fluoride Group
In a press release last week, the head of pro-fluoride activist group Making Sense of Fluoride, Dan Ryan expressed astonishment that the Royal Society of NZ once supported keeping leaded petrol; Ryan went as far as to deny it. His confusion went further, showing he didn’t understand the difference between a discredited fluoride-IQ NZ study […]
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Precautionary Principle Urged In New Zealand
Friday March 31, 2017 Press Release: Fluoride Free New Zealand Call to Government to Act on Precautionary Principle with Fluoride “It was petrol in the 70s and 80s – what’s the equivalent today?” presenter Petra Bagust asked on TV3’s programme The Project, which covered this week’s news about lead exposure lowering IQ by more than […]
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Debate over fluoridation of Meadville water continues
Retired Chemist Ron Greinke delivered a talk on concerns with adding fluoride to local water systems on Saturday, April 8, at the Vernon Township Municipal Building. Greinke’s talk, sponsored by the activist group Clean Water Meadville, examined scientific literature on the effects of adding fluoride in water. Greinke said that despite what many people believe, […]
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Chapel Hill: Commentary by Daria Barazandeh
As a resident of Chapel Hill and consumer of OWASA water who is deeply concerned about the effects of the commonly accepted practice of putting a toxic chemical in our water supply known as hydrofluorosilicic acid, or more commonly called fluoride, I have launched a local movement to have it stopped. The FDA classifies fluoride […]