A big day for anti-fluoridation activists in the United States. In a press conference jointly held with EPA head Lee Zeldin on April 7, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., made his first statement on fluoride since taking over the agency, telling the nation that fluoridated water is headed down the same path as leaded […]

The office of CDC’s Division of Oral Health, the main promoter of water fluoridation in the U.S. government, has been dissolved. A major shakeup within HHS has hit fluoride-promoting agencies hard. In addition to cuts at the CDC, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has eliminated the Chief Dental Officer role, and 17% of […]

Legislators in the Utah House and Senate both overwhelmingly passed a bill (H.B. 81) that prohibits the addition of fluoride to public water systems and expands the ability to prescribe fluoride supplements to pharmacists as an alternative. The legislation was supported by Governor Spencer Cox who, an hour before the midnight deadline, signed the bill […]

Board-certified dentist for kids and adults Staci Whitman, DMD and neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, Ph.D of The Huberman Lab Podcast explore the history and real impact of fluoridated drinking water on oral, bone, and systemic health as part of a broader discussion on the importance of oral care and the oral microbiome for brain and bodily […]

#1 – New study on fluoride and IQ just published in an NIH-funded scientific journal.The study examined a cohort of mothers and children living in Bangladesh who were exposed to fluoride levels similar to people living in fluoridated areas of the U.S. This is the 8th high-quality study finding lowered IQ at exposures below 1.5 mg/L, contradicting […]

EPA’s expert witness on risk assessment in the fluoride trial, Dr. Stanley Barone, admitted under oath that for studies finding IQ loss at a certain level of exposure, the standard risk assessment approach that EPA would use is to divide the level of exposure where studies find harm by 10 to reach a level low […]

The dental lobby sent a mass email to Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox urging him not to sign a bill that bans fluoridation in Utah, saying: “Most of the non-fluoridated counties experienced an increase in dental disease where Salt Lake showed a drop in disease to nearly the lowest level in the state after fluoride […]

This afternoon, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notified the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California that they plan to appeal the federal court ruling that water fluoridation “poses an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children.” The notice from the EPA did not offer an explanation or justification for their decision, which was made only three […]

“You don’t want to have to backtrack when you’ve made claims like that.” An expert for plaintiffs in the fluoride lawsuit, toxicologist Kathleen Thiessen scrutinizes CDC’s claim that fluoridation is one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century in an interview with Children’s Health Defense in which she shares her thoughts […]