Safe Water Calgary

Scientist Chris Neurath’s comments should put this study to rest forever.
Dr Bob

Fluoride Study Claiming No Effect on IQ Has ‘Basically No Connection to Reality,’ Critics Say

"Mainstream media are widely promoting a study claiming that community water fluoridation has no effect on IQ, but critics told The Defender the study contains fundamental methodological errors that invalidate the authors’ conclusions."

The “highly anticipated long-term study”... was widely cited by media and proponents of water fluoridation as evidence that there is no difference in IQ between people who drank water containing fluoride at the level currently recommended by U.S. public health agencies and people who didn’t.

But Chris Neurath — a research director for the American Environmental Health Studies Project who analyzed the study — identified flaws in the data used for the study and the authors’ conclusions.

Neurath said that one of the “most deceptive parts” of both the media coverage and the study itself was the claim that it studied community water fluoridation, and that it was a comparison between two groups — people exposed to fluoridation and people who weren’t.

Neurath found that the authors didn’t actually measure how much fluoride study participants consumed.

They also didn’t study people who were exposed to fluoride as neonates or young children — the very groups that research shows are most affected by fluoride exposure."

Calgary's water infrastructure at risk too?

NEW ZEALAND - "Hamilton City Council is taking a three-week break from fluoridating the city’s drinking water due to potential “corrosive” qualities detected in the chemical additive.

However, the quality and safety of Hamilton’s water was not at all compromised - rather, it was the areas where the council stored its fluoride, before adding it to the water, that were at risk.

In an announcement on Friday afternoon, the council said its fluoride supplier had found a recent delivery of the treatment product had differences in the chemical composition which could lead to “increased corrosion in council’s storage facility”.