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Several maternal fluoride-offspring IQ studies should provoke moratorium on fluoridation
Critics of the fluoride-IQ study published this month in JAMA Pediatrics claimed it needed replication. However, the Canadian study by Green (2019) was already a replication of another U.S. government-funded study published in 2017 by Bashash which found similar effects, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Both were Mother-Offspring studies that used urinary fluoride levels […]
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Controversy: The Evolving Science of Fluoride: When New Evidence Doesn’t Conform With Existing Beliefs
Over the past 75 years, health authorities have declared that community water fluoridation -a practice that reaches over 400 million worldwide -is safe. Yet, studies conducted in North America examining the safety of fluoride exposure in pregnancy were nonexistent. When a Canadian study reported that higher fluoride exposure in pregnant women was associated with lower […]
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Fluoride on Trial. Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola.
Link to interview with RFK Jr.and Michael Connett at top of article. • Read full article on Dr Mercola’s site Story at a Glance After a four-year process, a landmark fluoridation trial was held in federal court in June 2020. Fluoridation’s neurotoxic risk to vulnerable subpopulations was confirmed, along with the U.S. EPA’s failure to […]
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The TSCA Trial. Day 2.
THE Second DAY. By Paul Connett, PhD, Director of FAN Day 2 certainly lived up to expectations and more. It featured just one witness: Philippe Grandjean MD, ScD. He testified from his home in Denmark. Dr Grandjean is both a medical doctor and scientist and an internationally known expert in environmental epidemiology, with ties to […]
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Day Two Of The Trial & A Recap Of Day One
Dear Supporter, Day two of the TSCA fluoridation trial in federal court will start again at 8AM (Pacific) / 11AM (Eastern). You can watch or listen from any computer or mobile device with internet using Zoom (Download Zoom). You can also listen to the trial using your phone as you would a typical conference call. Here is the […]
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Last Minute Updates on Today’s Trial Start
TODAY IS THE DAY! THE HISTORIC TSCA TRIAL STARTS AT 8AM (PACIFIC) / 11AM (EASTERN). Before we get to a preview of what to expect today, here is a quick update on our current fundraiser. So far we have raised $8,270 from 84 supporters. Thank you to all who have helped us make progress on reaching […]
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The TSCA Trial. Day 3.
THE THIRD DAY. By Paul Connett, PhD, Director of FAN Day 3, June 11, was very rich and rewarding for the plaintiff’s case as presented by lawyers Michael Connett and Andy Waters. We heard from Dr Howard Hu, Dr Bruce Lanphear, Casey Hannan (excerpts from his videotaped deposition – the current director of the Division […]
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Recap of Day Five of the TSCA Trial
Recap of Day Five Day Five of the trial began with FAN’s attorney, Michael Connett’s cross-examination of the EPA’s first expert witness, Joyce Tsuji, PhD, a consultant from Exponent. Tsuji spent much of the exchange doing a lot of talking but providing few answers. This happened so often that the judge stopped the proceedings twice and warned her. […]
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Researchers warn against fluoride use for infants and pregnant women to prevent neurological damage
NEW YORK, July 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Avoid fluoride during pregnancy and infancy to protect babies’ brains, caution fluoride researchers in the Journal of Pediatrics (“Current Best Evidence,” July 2020), reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF). Scientists Howard Hu, MD and Morteza Bashash, PhD provide commentary on one of seven well-conducted […]
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Annual Fluoride Awareness Week Update by Dr. Mercola.
Click here to see Dr Joseph Mercola’s interview with Paul Connett, PhD Story at-a-glance Over the past 20 years, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has facilitated the removal of fluoride from the water supplies of hundreds of communities across North America, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. This week, we’re helping FAN raise funds to […]