Fluoridation

In 1999, the Chief Medical Officer of England’s Department of Health commissioned what became known as the York Study of the efficacy and harm of fluoridation. It was conducted Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and is a department of the University of York. In 2003, in response to what the authors considered misrepresentation of their study, they released this statement: What the ‘York Review’ on the fluoridation of drinking water really found (Originally released : 28 October 2003). "What evidence we found suggested that water fluoridation was likely to have a beneficial effect, but that the range could be anywhere from a substantial benefit to a slight disbenefit to children’s teeth. This beneficial effect comes at the expense of an increase in the prevalence of fluorosis (mottled teeth). The quality of this evidence was poor."

"In 2006, two researchers, Philippe Grandjean and Philip Landrigan, conducted a review of existing studies and posited that certain industrial chemicals could contribute to neurobehavioral effects. It appears that they have updated their 2006 work and are recirculating it under the title “Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity,” which was published yesterday in the journal The Lancet."Criticism

A more recent scare started with a press release from the Harvard School of Public Health - Growing number of chemicals linked with brain disorders in children. This promoted a paper which went on-line less than a week ago - Grandjean & Landrigan (2014) The Lancet Neurology, 13(3) 330 – 338, March 2014. Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity. criticism This report cites the paper most quoted by anti-fluoridation activists: Choi et al (2012), Developmental fluoride neurotoxicity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. criticism

ARticles

• "Fluoride: Commie Plot or Capitalist Ploy," from the fall 1992 issue of Covert Action Information Bulletin, by the medical writer Joel Griffiths.
• Anna L. Choi, Guifan Sun, Ying Zhang, Philippe Grandjean, "Developmental Fluoride Neurotoxicity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis", Environ Health Perspect. 2012 October; 120(10): 1362–1368. "The actual findings of the study do not show that there is any risk to public water fluoridation (if anything, they show that it is safe), but the study was seized upon by antifluoridation activists and distorted for their propaganda purposes. Unfortunately, the internet is now fertile ground for the spreading of propaganda." [1]
• Yeung CA., "A systematic review of the efficacy and safety of fluoridation," Evid Based Dent. 2008;9(2):39-43.
• Marian S McDonagh, Penny F. Whiting, Paul M. Wilson, Alex J. Sutton, Ivor Chestnutt, Jan Cooper, Kate Misso, Matthew Bradley, Elizabeth Treasure, Jos Kleijnen, "Systematic review of water fluoridation", BMJ 2000; 321.
• Jason M Armfield (2007): When public action undermines public health: a critical examination of antifluoridationist literature. Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2007, 4:25
• Bernhardt M, Sprague B: The poisonmongers. In The tooth robbers. Edited by Barrett S, Rovin S. Philadelphia: GF Stickley; 1980:1-8.
• Hastreiter RJ: Fluoridation conflict: a history and conceptual synthesis. J Am Dent Assoc 1983, 106:486-490.
• Jim Keith, Mind control, world control Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press; 1998.
• Peckham & Awofeso (2014), Water Fluoridation: A Critical Review of the Physiological Effects of Ingested Fluoride as a Public Health Intervention, The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2014 (2014). criticism
• Karimzade, S., & Aghaei, M. (2014). Investigation of intelligence quotient in 9–12-year-old children exposed to high- and low-drinking water fluoride in west Azerbaijan province, Iran, Fluoride, Journal, 47(March), 9–14. criticism
• Tania Ritchie, "The fluoridation debate: why we all lose when we pretend it’s just about science", Science and Society, September 4, 2013.

Books

• The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep it There, by Paul Connett, James Beck and H S Micklem First published 2010. (Backcover written by Ralph Nader)
• The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson with a foreword by Dr. Theo Colborn Seven Stories Press, 2004.
• Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves To Death by Barry Groves First published 2001

Related Sourcewatch

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• Richard Kunin
• Stan Monteith
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• Spencer Fitz-Gibbon - Green
• International Society for Fluoride Research
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