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Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities
The gas, sulfur hexafluoride, is one of the most potent and long-lasting climate pollutants—known collectively as “the immortals”—because they remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. This article was published in partnership with NBC News. DAVIDSON, N.C.—Four thin, metal cylinders containing the world’s most potent greenhouse gas stand lashed to the base of a Duke […]
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Insufficient evidence to support Kanye West’s claim that fluoride in toothpaste harms the pineal gland
Note from the Fluoride Action Network: • It’s embarassing to shame a personality on comments on the pineal-fluoride issue when this “factchecker” article, to its credit, gave a fair review of the fluoride-pineal issue from which such a comment could emerge. • The fackchecker(s) cited Luke’s 1997 PhD thesis on fluoride’s effect on the pineal […]
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Why scientists have pumped a potent greenhouse gas into streams on public lands
Transcript Blacktail Deer Creek in Yellowstone National Park, seen here in a 2019 photo from the ecological study known as NEON, is one site where researchers have bubbled sulfur hexafluoride into the water. NEON A massive ecological study that’s happening across the United States, and which is designed to track the impact of long-term changes […]
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Aytu BioPharma, Inc. makes two fluoride-based prescription vitamin products
Note from Fluoride Action Network: We classified this as misinformation because fluoride is not a nutrient and thus one cannot have a fluoride deficiency. (EC) Excerpt: About Aytu BioPharma, Inc. Aytu BioPharma, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ:AYTU), a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapeutics, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Josh Disbrow and […]
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EPA Finds New Insecticide Is Putting Over 100 Species in Jeopardy of Extinction
Note from Fluoride Action Network Structural formula for Sulfoxaflor (see more information on its toxicity and USDA Shuts Down Data Collection on Honey Bees) and Sulfoxaflor: Documents. EPA Finds New Insecticide Is Putting Over 100 Species in Jeopardy of Extinction WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency released a draft biological evaluation today showing that the bee-killing […]
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Could Your Toothpaste Cause Cancer? (Do This Instead)
Just when you thought it was safe to brush your teeth, here comes a report telling you toothpaste could be cancerous! But, is there any rationality to that claim? Let’s dig a little deeper and find out what’s really lurking inside your tube of toothpaste. And, what you can do instead to avoid those seemingly […]
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Facebook posts – Fluoride is safe in your toothpaste and drinking water, experts say. Fact Check.
Note from Fluoride Action Network: This article is another in recent weeks that continues a one-sided discussion with the major proponents of fluoridation. Included in this article is “Water fluoridation has been happening in the U.S. since 1945, and studies in the decades since have shown it to be safe for Americans, the CDC and […]
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Fluoride is safe in your toothpaste and drinking water, experts say – PolitiFact
Note from Fluoride Action Network: We classified this article as misinformation as it is a one-sided look at this issue, taking the claims of fluoridation promoters at face value. This article presents no discussion of the neurotoxicity of fluoride at levels added to drinking water in fluoridation schemes (Green et al., 2019 and Till et […]
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Persistent farmer whose cows died from a mysterious disease helped unravel the origin of toxic chemicals
DuPont’s Washington Works plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. (Maddie McGarvey/for the Washington Post) If Wilbur Earl Tennant’s cows hadn’t died from a mysterious wasting disease during the 1990s, the world might have never learned about the secret history of toxic forever chemicals. Tennant was a West Virginia farmer whose family owned land near a DuPont […]
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ADA council, ASTDD: Maintaining optimal fluoride levels important in face of additive shortage
Note from Fluoride Action Network: A comment below by Levy that studies “have shown that cessation of community water fluoridation leads to more tooth decay in those communities” is not accurate. The author he cites, McLaren, was critiqued by Neurath et al. Their critique noted “shortcomings in study design and interpretation of results, and did […]
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