Tag: Brain

Dr. Philippe Grandjean, the senior scientist on the Harvard team, has criticized the Wichita Eagle for deceptively attributing its own conclusions on fluoridation to the Harvard scientists. Fluoridation’s potential to produce “chemical brain drain,” Grandjean writes, is an issue that “definitely deserves concern.”

Ingestion of fluoride has been linked to reduced intelligence in 37 studies of human populations. Despite calls by the National Research Council and a team of Harvard scientists to take these findings seriously, American fluoridation proponents are cavalierly dismissing the warnings based on misleading, and even demonstrably false, claims.