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  • The Timeline

    November 22, 2016: On behalf of Fluoride Action Network (FAN), Food and Water Watch, MOMS Against Fluoridation, as well as several individuals, Paul Connett PhD and Bill Hirzy PhD served the EPA with a Petition calling on the Agency to ban the addition of fluoridation chemicals to public water supplies due to the risks these […]

  • FAN’s submission to UK: “Have your say on extending water fluoridation schemes”

    Submission to the Department of Health & Social Care consultation for community water fluoridation (CWF) June 3, 2022 From the Fluoride Action Network https://fluoridealert.org/ Submitted by Ellen Connett <ellen@fluoridealert.org> on behalf of the Fluoride Action Network Reference: Have your say on extending water fluoridation schemes, May 13, 2022, British Dental Journal Fluoride and the BRAIN […]

  • Rebuttal Of Stuff’s “The Whole Truth: Water Fluoridation – At Recommended Levels – Is Safe And Beneficial”

    On the 28th of March 2023, New Zealand mainstream media outlet Stuff, published an article titled “The Whole Truth: Water fluoridation – at recommended levels – is safe and beneficial.” Stuff’s article was in response to the release of the US Government’s National Toxicology Program’s Monograph titled “NTP Monograph on the State of the Science […]

  • Scientist Who Defied Intimidation From Harvard Colleagues Wins Award For Work and Integrity.

      The International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment (ISCHE) has awarded Philippe Grandjean, MD, DMSc, the Herbert Needleman Award in Children’s Environmental Health “for his work on methyl mercury, lead, PFAS and other toxic chemicals.” One of the chemicals Dr. Grandjean has been studying for decades is fluoride, including the impact of low-levels […]

  • Australian study of fluoridation neurotoxicity: Streetlight Effect Fallacy.

    Researchers looked in the wrong place. Couldn’t find IQ loss that other studies found. Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher, June 3, 1942. In a classic Mutt & Jeff comic a drunk is crawling around on the ground under a streetlight, looking for his dropped coin.  A cop asks, “Did you drop it here?” and […]

  • 69 Reasons To Oppose Adding Fluoride To Water

    We’re told fluoride is good for our teeth but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Now I know many of you have never questioned this and are very skeptical, so all I ask is for you to read this with an OPEN mind. Up until this point, you’ve been told what to think about […]

  • 23 studies published since 2017 on the association of fluoride exposure and reduced IQ.

    The following are 23 studies published since 2017 on the association of fluoride exposure and reduced IQ. As of January 2022, a total of 83 studies have investigated the relationship between fluoride and human intelligence. Of these investigations, 74 studies have found that elevated fluoride exposure is associated with reduced IQ in humans. In communities […]

  • Impacts of Fluoride Neurotoxicity and Mitochondrial Dysfunction on Cognition and Mental Health: A Literature Review.

    Abstract This review focuses on the synthesis of current experimental and observational data regarding the effect of fluoride exposure on childhood mental health and the role of mitochondrial function as a mechanism of action. We aggregated data on the relationships between fluoride neurotoxicity, mitochondrial function, and cognitive and mental health using PubMed. Current animal and […]

  • NTP and NASEM: February 9, 2021, a date that won’t be forgotten.

    The NTP has a long and complex involvement with fluoride that began in the late 1970s. At that time the U.S. Congress requested that they perform a study to determine if fluoride was a carcinogen. The NTP contracted out two animal studies with the results published in 1990. The findings created an enormous stir as […]

  • A Good Summer’s Read

    I have just re-read a report FAN produced in 2015, entitled Fluoridation and Environmental Justice. We had a very strong team put this together. It is a comprehensive summary of where things on fluoridation were at in 2015.  It appeared one year before two seminal events in 2016, 1) FAN’s request to the National Toxicology Program […]