Key Points –
• Paper by Choi & Simon in JAMA Health Forum misrepresents the current science to produce grossly unreliable and invalid results, warranting its retraction and a warning notice for readers.
• The paper uses 50-year-old evidence while claiming to cite the latest evidence on fluoridation benefits and harms.
• Stopping fluoridation in the USA will NOT cause a large increase in cavities, according to the latest and most authoritative
Update 7/18/25 - EPA has officially filed their appeal.
FAN Attorney Michael Connett commented:
EPA filed its appeal in the fluoride case yesterday. In its brief, EPA does not challenge the merits of the Court's determination that fluoridation poses an unreasonable risk. Instead, EPA challenges various legal aspects of the case.
EPA's Lee Zeldin and AG Pam Bondi have the authority to withdraw this time-wasting appeal any time they choose. If they do, EPA would have the authority, und
For the past 25 years, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has been warning the public about the harmful effects of fluoride supplements prescribed to children, and we’ve been calling for and petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove these products from the market because they’re unapproved, unsafe, unnecessary, and ineffective.
In another monumental victory for our movement, the FDA announced on Tuesday that it is starting th
As the practice of water fluoridation currently faces unprecedented opposition and rejection at both the local and state levels following our recent victory in federal court and the publication of the National Toxicology Program’s review of fluoride neurotoxicity, federal officials have now dealt it another major blow.
Last night, at a joint press conference held in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, J
Compiled by Michael F. Dolan, PhD
New Zealand Party Would Reverse Water Fluoridation Mandate
In 2021 the New Zealand parliament voted unanimously to expand water fluoridation across the nation by giving the Director-General of Health the power to impose the practice on individual districts. A political party has now introduced a bill to reverse the mandate while its leader denounces government threats against local politicians as a “despotic Soviet-era disgrace.”
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By Bill Osmunson DDS MPH, February 26, 2025
Freedom, Science, and Jurisdictional Authorities
I am a comprehensive cosmetic dentist with a master’s degree in public health. I retired after 46 years of clinical practice and teaching. For the first 25 years, I promoted fluoridation. Then, I read both sides of the science, laws, and ethics and became opposed to Community Water Fluoridation (CWF), the addition of fluoride to tap water.
Freedom of choice is fundamenta
New Zealand residents, there's still time to see attorney Michael Connett during his speaking tour of your country. Connett is an environmental attorney and public health advocate who led FAN's historic legal battle and victory against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the neurotoxicity of fluoridation chemicals. He's currently on a speaking tour of New Zealand, filling meeting halls to capacity in Whangarei and Rotorua.
Connett's presentations--open to all members
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 days before a new EPA administrator and presidential administration enters office. So far, the EPA has also&n
Fluoride Action Network (FAN) – Today, National Toxicology Program (NTP) authors published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics with details underpinning an NTP report released in August 2024 that concluded fluoride is neurotoxic and can lower the IQ of children. Today's article adds to the science showing IQ losses can occur at exposure levels experienced by some people with artificially fluoridated water.
FAN’s Executive Director Stuart
Since the federal district court awarded the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) a victory in our lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the end of September, a rapidly growing list of communities across the United States, Canada, and New Zealand have responded by either ending or rejecting water fluoridation. This unprecedented wave of victories is far from over, with more than 80 communities currently holding hearings on fluoridation or actively planning to vote
