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  • Federal Trial Update: New Supplement To Our TSCA Petition Submitted To Court

    As you might recall, the Court requested on the last day of the trial that we submit a new Petition to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow them the opportunity to respond to our original 2016 Petition in regards to the new studies that were published between 2017-2020.  The Court also requested that we […]

  • Fluoride exposure and intelligence in school-age children: evidence from different windows of exposure susceptibility.

    Study Retracted on November 8, 2022. Retraction Note: BMC Public Health 20, 1657 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09765-4 The Editor has retracted this article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding the data analysis and conclusions in the paper. The authors have provided raw data, and post-publication review found inconsistencies in methodology and major misinterpretation of the primary result. […]

  • Video and Powerpoint: The Scientific Evidence for Fluoride’s Developmental Neurotoxicity.

    Update: Chris Neurath is the lead author of Fluoride Developmental Neurotoxicity: Dose-Response Analyses of Recent High Quality Studies, an e-poster in the 32nd Annual Conference of ISEE (International Society of Environmental Epidemiology), August 24-27, 2020. FAN’s Research Director, Chris Neurath, closely details the evidence that fluoride is a developmental neurotoxin. This information in this video […]

  • Associations between Urinary, Dietary, and Water Fluoride Concentrations among Children in Mexico and Canada.

    References Marinho, V.C.C. Cochrane reviews of randomized trials of fluoride therapies for preventing dental caries. Eur. Arch. Paediatr. Dent. 2009, 10, 183–191. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Public Health Capacity and Knowledge Management Unit, Quebec Region for the Office of the Chief Dental Officer of Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada. The State of Community Water […]

  • Recent US Government Funded Studies Link Fluoride Exposure to IQ Loss.

    An interview with Paul Connett, Ph.D.   Note: The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author (s) and contributor (s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the publisher and editors of WholeFoods Magazine. Information in this interview is intended for educational and scientific purposes only. It is not intended as medical […]

  • A Growing Chorus of Experts Warning About Fluoridation

    Since the start of fluoridation in the 1950’s, many independent scientists have voiced their reservations about the safety of dosing everyone in a community with fluoride.  This early opposition culminated in an official statement from the US Environmental Protection Agencies employees’ union, representing approximately 1500 scientists, lawyers, and engineers in Washington, D.C. calling for a […]

  • Predictors of Plasma Fluoride Concentrations in Children and Adolescents.

    Funding This research was funded by NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, grant numbers K23ES024803 and R01ES030101 and the Maine Economic Improvement Fund. Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the […]

  • The Lack of Professionalism by Researchers and the Editors at the journal “Pediatrics”

    The Lack of Professionalism by Researchers and the Editors at the journal Pediatrics. By Ellen Connett December 22, 2020 It is well known that the dental profession has been largely trapped by the paradigm of the “safety and effectiveness” of water fluoridation – and has been since the practice was first endorsed by the US […]

  • Unpublished response to Rekha Basu’s syndicated column: Stop rejecting science in favor of superstition

    Note from Fluoride Action Network: We are publishing Paul Connett’s response to Rekha Basu’s syndicated column which ran in the Des Moines Register (Iowa), the Daily Republic (Solano County CA), Daily Sun (AZ), The Ledger (FL), The Daily World (WA), Post-Bulletin (MN), and perhaps many other newspapers, because the initial publisher (the Des Moines Register) […]

  • Water fluoridation from the frontline

    Note from Fluoride Action Network: According to FAN director, Paul Connett, PhD, this article represents dangerous misinformation. The author makes no mention of the recent U.S. government-funded studies which show a link between exposure to fluoride during both fetal development and infancy and lowered IQ in children (Bashash, 2017; Green, 2019; and Till 2020). Thus […]