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Smile Spokane information on City Council’s website: Part 1.
Note from Fluoride Action Network: SmileSpokane, the force behind the huge campaign to fluoridate Spokane, has two resources on fluoridation listed on the City Council of Spokane’s website under Items of Interest. The following is a propaganda piece listed on the website as City Council Information on Fluoride (PDF 974 KB). The pdf is dated […]
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Editorial: It’s time to fluoridate Spokane’s water
Note from Fluoride Action Network This is a shockingly ill-informed editorial. We urge the editorial staff at The Spokesman-Review (and the state’s proponents) to turn the channel and begin reading the science, starting with the Mother-Offspring fluoride studies and the published literature. (EC) Three public health advocates recently kicked a hornets’ nest when they asked […]
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Fluoride: Friend or foe?
Note from Fluoride Action Network, The author states, “Years of solid, rigorous scientific studies have shown that at the proper concentration, following manufacturers’ directions, there are no deleterious side effects to the proper use of fluoridated water and adjunctive products as aids to preventive dental care.” How is it possible that she is not familiar […]
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Water for Formula: Which Type Should You Use?
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The article states, “Boiling tap water doesn’t change how much fluoride is in it.” Incorrect. If water is boiled for a longer time fluoride will concentrate in it. For example, if you put 2 liters of fluoridated water (1.4 ppm fluoride) water in your kettle and most boils away, with […]
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Is Social Media Broken?
Note from Fluoride Action Network, Matt Jacob, author of this article, has played a pivotal role in promoting fluoridation for approximately the last 15 years. (EC) The answer to this headline may seem obvious if you care about public health and prevention. Consider this fact: last year, measles cases in the U.S. reached their highest […]
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Questionable study casts a cloud over the 75th anniversary of water fluoridation
Note from the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) In her article below, Jennifer Meyer smeared the Fluoride Action Network in this sentence: “Despite its proven success, critics often attack fluoridation by citing “medical freedom” and sharing conspiracy theories which unjustly blame all manner of ills — from acne to migraines — on fluoride.” The highlighted link […]
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Social media hosted a lot of fake health news this year. Here’s what went most viral.
Note from the Fluoride Action Network The author of this article provides no references whatsoever to substantiate the inclusion of fluoride in this article on “misinformation”. Yet, it is included as insinuation. Because of this, one has to question the author’s integrity and veracity in reporting. Note: we have used bold to emphasize where fluoride […]
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Anti-Fluoride Activism Is Bad, and Not Just for Public Health
Cities must resist this vocal minority using pseudoscience. Their budgets are at stake. In 1901, a Colorado Springs dentist named Frederick McKay noticed many of his patients had peculiarly mottled brown teeth — but far fewer cavities than the norm. The cause, Dr. McKay determined after years of investigation, was high levels of natural fluoride […]
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Ford: The Earth is round, and fluoridation is not harmful
People who oppose fluoridation are placing their children and others in harm’s way — especially those children who can least afford to be penalized, writes Catherine Ford. Photo by Postmedia Archives One finds like-minded citizens in the strangest places. For me, it came when I agreed with Calgary city council’s enfant terrible, Ward 11 […]
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Viewpoint: Counteracting Health Misinformation. A Role for Medical Journals?
The growing toll of popular fallacies about health and illness is evident given outbreaks of measles and other preventable communicable diseases in many nations. This “medical misinformation” phenomenon has been described as “a health-related claim of fact that is currently false due to a lack of scientific evidence,”1 [links to this article] but that may […]
Canada Canada, National Misinformation