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Blatant misreporting of latest OPCW report on chemical weapons in Syria

Ken Perrott • Jul 10, 2018

• chemical weapons,
• OPCW,
• Syria

BBC caught out promoting fake news about OPCW report The Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) reports no evidence of banned chemical weapons use by the Syrian government in Douma last April. This conflicts with the strong claims of NATO states and most of the mainstream media at the time. It also shows that the illegal missile … Read More

June ’18 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking

Ken Perrott • Jul 01, 2018

• New Zealand blogs,
• sitemeter

I notice a few regulars no longer allow public access to the site counters. This may happen accidentally when the blog format is altered. If your blog is unexpectedly missing or the numbers seem very low please check this out. After correcting send me the URL for your site meter and I can correct the information in the database. Similarly, if … Read More

Anti-fluoride campaigners exhaust their legal channels with another loss

Ken Perrott • Jun 28, 2018

• fluoride,
• South Taranaki,
• supreme court

The NZ Supreme Court has delivered its judgments and local anti-fluoride campaigners (and their big business supporters) seem to have come to the end of the line with their legal actions to prevent community water fluoridation (see Supreme Court rules against Taranaki anti-fluoride campaigners and Supreme Court rules South Taranaki fluoridation allowed). Specifically, the Supreme Court delivered two judgments rejecting … Read More

May ’18 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking

Ken Perrott • Jun 01, 2018

• blog,
• sitemeter

I notice a few regulars no longer allow public access to the site counters. This may happen accidentally when the blog format is altered. If your blog is unexpectedly missing please check this out. Send me the URL for your site meter and I can correct the information in the database. Similarly, if your blog data in this list seems out … Read More

Anti-fluoridation activists buy scientific credibility using a predatory publisher

Ken Perrott • May 30, 2018

• community water fluoridation,
• fluoridation,
• predatory publishers

A group of well-known anti-fluoride activists have just published some new research. Well, this is what their social media publicity will tell us. In fact, this is not new research. It is simply the republication of a shonky paper from two years ago as a  chapter in a book produced by a predatory open access publisher. It is a clear example … Read More

Not just another rat study

Ken Perrott • May 09, 2018

• animal trials,
• community water fluoridation,
• fluoridation,
• Learning,
• Memory

A new high-quality study of the effect of fluoride on the memory and learning behaviour of rats has produced definitive results. Anti-fluoride campaigners had great hopes this study would bring an end to community water fluoridation (CWF) – but their hopes have been dashed. The study showed no effect of fluoride on the memory, learning and motor skills of rats thus reinforcing the consensus … Read More

April ’18 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking

Ken Perrott • May 01, 2018

• blogs,
• New Zealand,
• ranking,
• Sciblogs,
• SEO,
• sitemeter,
• statistics

I notice a few regulars no longer allow public access to the site counters. This may happen accidentally when the blog format is altered. If your blog is unexpectedly missing please check this out. Send me the URL for your site meter and I can correct the information in the database. Similarly, if your blog data in this list seems out … Read More

Mainstream media-political alliance gets vindictive

Ken Perrott • Apr 24, 2018

• chemical weapons,
• cyber experts,
• geopolitical,
• information,
• journalists,
• media,
• nerve agents,
• news,
• opinion,
• poisoning,
• Russia,
• Salisbury,
• Syria

Hala Jaber, highly Respected Middle East correspondent and author of  The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman’s Fight to Save Two Orphans.” Image Credit: Goodreads. Several things have come together in the last few months – centred around news about the war in Syria, chemical weapons, the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury and the … Read More

Anti-fluoridationist Paul Connett misrepresents NZ data

Ken Perrott • Apr 12, 2018

• Communities,
• dental,
• FFNZ,
• fluoridated,
• fluoride,
• Health and Medicine,
• Maori,
• Ministry of Health,
• MoH,
• New Zealand,
• oral health,
• Pacific Island,
• Paul Connett,
• Science,
• Science and Society,
• statistics,
• teeth

Here is another post in my series critiquing a PowerPoint presentation of Paul Connett – a leading US anti-fluoridation activist. Slide 110 from Paul Connett’s presentation prepared for his planned meeting at Parliament Buildings last February. Paul prepared this for a meeting in New Zealand Parliament buildings last February. Although only three MPs turned up his presentation is important as it … Read More

Anti-fluoridationists rejection of IQ studies in fluoridated area.

Ken Perrott • Apr 04, 2018

• anti-fluoride,
• Broadbent,
• drinking,
• fluoride,
• Health and Medicine,
• IQ,
• limitations,
• Paul Connett,
• Science,
• Science and Society,
• water

US anti-fluoride activist Paul Connett claims studies cannot detect an IQ effect from fluoridated water because total fluoride intake is the real problem – but still campaigns against community water fluoridation. Image credit: MSoF “Activist Spouts Nonsense – The Evidence Supports Fluoridation” This is another article in my critique of the presentation Paul Connett prepared to present to a … Read More