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EPA comprehensively debunks anti-fluoride claims of a fluoride-IQ effect - Unsorted

Ken Perrott • Feb 26, 2017 •

The US environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied an anti-fluoride petition to ban community water fluoridation. The document outlining its reasons for declining the petition is valuable because it considers all the arguments and evidence presented in the petition and comprehensively shows them to be misleading or even false. This is a humiliating defeat for the petitioners – the US  Fluoride Action … Read More

Fluoride debate: Response to Daniel Ryan’s critique – Rita Bartlett-Rose - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Oct 15, 2014 •

Rita Barnett-Rose, author of “Compulsory water fluoridation: Justifiable public health benefit or human experimental research without informed consent” has replied to Daniel Ryan’s critique of her paper. Daniel’s critique was posted yesterday at Fluoride debate: A response to Rita Barnett-Rose – Daniel Ryan. … Continue reading → … Read More

Crude dredging of the scientific literature - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Sep 15, 2014 •

I am always amazed at how some people will crudely misrepresent the scientific literature in their efforts to pretend their particular political agenda is scientifically valid. The way they will dredge the scientific literature searching for studies they can quote and misrepresent seems an extreme form of cherry picking and confirmation bias. Surely those indulging in such … … Continue reading … Read More

Declan Waugh scaremongers over fluoride – again - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Apr 10, 2014 •

Mary Byrne, the convener of the anti-fluoridation activist group Fluoride Action Network of NZ, is promoting “alarming information” about incidence of neural tube developmental defects like spina bifida with the implication they are caused by community water fluoridation. Her authority for this is Declan Waugh! Any critical examination of Waugh’s claims on fluoridation (and there … … Continue reading … Read More