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Fluoride Fundamentals #3: Margin of Safety
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Dr. Lanphear has studied the impact of toxic chemicals, including lead and pesticides, on children's brain development for over 20 years. His research has been almost exclusively funded by federal agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Health Canada.
He has served on multiple scientific advisory boards for the EPA and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and has earned various awards for his work, including the Research Integrity Award from the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology and the Advocacy Award from the Academic Pediatric Association.
Dr. Lanphear is well-known in the environmental science community for authoring seminal research on the neurotoxicity of low levels of lead. His blood lead research, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was cited by the EPA as the critical study upon which the agency based the current national air standard for lead.
He has also co-authored several landmark human studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on fluoride and the brain.
He works as an investigator at BC Children's Hospital and as a professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on fetal and childhood exposures to environmental neurotoxins.
**Please pardon the video quality, we had to enlarge his Zoom screen from an event where Dr. Lanphear was invited by City Council members in Dallas, Texas in November 2023 to present on the topic of fluoride neurotoxicity.
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Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S., is one of the most highly-respected scientists in the nation. A board certified toxicologist and microbiologist, she served as a federal scientist for 40 years.
Dr. Birnbaum was director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Toxicology Program (NTP) from 2009 to 2019. Prior to her appointment at NIH, she spent 19 years an the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where she directed the largest division on environmental health research.
Birnbaum received many awards and recognitions. In October 2010, she was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health. Other awards included two NIH Director’s Award, an EPA Health Science Achievement Award, a Surgeon General’s Medallion, and 14 Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards, which reflected the recommendations of EPA’s external Science Advisory Board.
She was vice president of the International Union of Toxicology, the umbrella organization for toxicology societies in more than 50 countries; former president of the Society of Toxicology, the largest professional organization of toxicologists in the world.
Birnbaum is now a Special Volunteer at NIEHS and conducts research as part of the Mechanistic Toxicology Branch. She's also a scholar in residence at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and is also the past president of the Society of Toxicology.
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* TSCA Fluoride Lawsuit Finale
* Lawsuit Deposition Videos Released
* Fluoride Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) Files Released
* NTP Neurotoxicity Report Published
* More Fluoride/IQ Studies
* Several Communities Working To Stop Fluoridation
* So Much More
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Thanks to the HighWire, Del Bigtree, and Jefferey Jaxen for hosting this important discussion on fluoride.
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In April, California’s State Dental Director, Dr. Jayanth Kumar, published a meta-analysis in the journal Public Health that purported to show that fluoridated water is not associated with reduced IQ. The American Dental Association (ADA), with whom Kumar works closely, has touted Kumar’s findings as a basis for the NTP to postpone publishing its report.
But Kumar is not an independent voice on the issue of fluoride’s safety. At a recent deposition, Kumar admitted his “job is to promote fluoridation” and that he is “literally being paid to promote fluoridation.”
Documents obtained under California’s Public Records Act show that Kumar’s desire to protect fluoridation influenced almost every aspect of the study. Before even conducting the study, Kumar told his colleagues that his aim was to “pre-empt” the NTP and show that fluoridated water is safe. In emails to co-authors, Kumar emphasized the “urgency” of the task.
Kumar’s biases caused the paper to be rejected four times prior to being published. One peer reviewer described the study as “superficial,” “unbalanced,” and “misleading” and cautioned, “I’m afraid that the misinformation in this manuscript will fuel more controversy rather than stimulate prudent science-based decisions.”
But the problems with Kumar’s study were worse than the peer reviewers realized. Emails obtained from California’s Department of Public Health show that Kumar omitted data that was contrary to the conclusion.
In an email from March 5, 2022, the study’s biostatistician, Honghu Liu, reported to Kumar that the results are “opposite to what we hoped for” as they failed to show a safe (aka “threshold”) level of fluoride in water below which there is no association with reduced IQ.
The failure to find the “hoped for” threshold was troubling to Kumar and his team.
Liu suggested trying different models to see if they could obtain different results: “although hard, we can test more models to try to identify a threshold that can lead to a non-significant fluctuation in IQ before the threshold and a significant drop in IQ after the threshold.”
But further analyses continued to show the same thing: an association between low-level fluoride and IQ deficits. According to Liu, the dose-response analysis “is unfortunately not showing what we like to show.”
Kumar’s response? Remove the analysis from the study.
In an email from March 24, 2022, Kumar suggested removing the analysis “because it appears to contradict other findings” and “I think the reviewers will have many questions.”
About a month later, Kumar submitted the study for publication. But the analysis showing an association between low-level fluoride and reduced IQ was gone. Stripped of this analysis, the study concludes, “These meta-analyses show that fluoride exposure relevant to community water fluoridation is not associated with lower IQ scores in children.”
In his letter to NTP, Connett disclosed the omitted analysis from Kumar’s study, and called on NTP to give due consideration to Kumar’s biases. According to Connett, a partner at the law firm Waters Kraus & Paul, “The public counts on NTP to provide the best available science on the chemicals that impact their lives. I recognize this is a challenging task, particularly for chemicals with significant political interests at stake, but it is vital nonetheless.”
Highlights and timestamps:
* Start 00:00
* Presentation by Dr. Eaton, BSC Working Group Chair 04:01
* BSC Working Group Vote 18:10
* Dr. Woychik Closing Remarks 19:23
Highlights and timestamps:
* Start 00:00
* Comments from Michael Connett (TSCA Attorney) 1:08:00
* Comments from Chris Neurath (AEHSP) 1:16:27
* Comments from David Kennedy (PDHA) 1:22:44
* Comments from Paul Connett (FAN) 1:31:29
* Comments from Rick North (Citizen) 1:38:14
* Comments from Bill Osmunson (WASW) 1:43:48
* Comments from Bill Hirzy (NTEU) 1:49:50
* Comments from Jack Kall (IAOMT) 1:56:18
* Comments from Howard Pollick (ADA) 2:02:19
* BSC Motion To Accept Report 2:38:17
* BSC Vote 2:41:56
* Clarification to add Paul Connett suggestion to fix error of SMD/IQ points 2:45:32
Thanks to Children's Health Defense (CHD) for capturing the public live stream. Source video (NTP): youtube.com/watch?v=lvjr15fwjF8
For more see:
Our FAN article: fluoridealert.org/articles/new-video-interview-on-nationwide-fluoridation-mandate-in-new-zealand
Fluoride Free New Zealand: fluoridefree.org.nz
Fluoride and NZ in the news: fluoridealert.org/news/?country=new-zealand
With 75 years of proponents claiming strong evidence of safety and effectiveness, why is the first RCT on fluoridation only NOW being done?
Some are concerned that the experiment will target vulnerable citizens at their most vulnerable stage of brain development. And there are concerns being raised about the lack of informed consent for study participants.
To learn more about this experiment visit: fluoridealert.org/articles/the-worlds-first-randomized-controlled-trial-on-fluoridation-is-targeting-children
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This hour-long interview features a wide-ranging discussion on:
* How phosphates are mined
* Toxic chemicals at the phosphate plant
* How fluoride is captured from from phosphate rock slurry
* Why defoamers are used in the process
* Toxic work conditions that impact the health of workers and the environment
* The financial and political influence of the chemical industry
For an audio only version of this video check out our podcast: spreaker.com/user/fancast/gary-pittman
Phosphate plant footage courtesy of K-nep Images, source video: youtube.com/watch?v=p00uWAVY_wU
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In this video, produced by Fluoride Free NZ and FAN, Paul Connett, Chris Neurath, and Michael Connett present the latest science on fluoride in an effort to help the public understand the issue and to help them in framing their public comments to Parliament due by Friday June 18.
This video was recorded from a live webinar given on June 12, 2021.
This video was recorded from a live webinar given on June 12, 2021. The full webinar can be viewed here: youtu.be/SntbCQOuSyg
"You have a situation where there is a clear identifiable risk, and a serious one (neurotoxicity), without any offsetting benefit."
- Attorney Michael Connett
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“Protecting babies from any further cognitive harm from fluoride is our number one job.” – FAN Executive Director Dr. Paul Connett on investing in our children’s future in 2021.
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“Protecting babies from any further cognitive harm from fluoride is our number one job.” – FAN Executive Director Dr. Paul Connett on investing in our children’s future in 2021.
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“This decision to publish this article was not easy. Given the nature of the findings and their potential implications, we subjected it to additional scrutiny for its methods and the presentation of its findings. The mission of the journal is to ensure that child health is optimized by bringing the best available evidence to the fore."
The publication of the study was accompanied by a podcast featuring the journal editors. Here, the Fluoride Action Network revisits the (unedited) podcast, adding a visual narrative to the conversation.
* JAMA Pediatrics Audio Editors' Summary (August 19, 2019)
edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/17802991
* Population IQ Shift Animation - "The Impact of Fluoride on Brain Development" by Bob and Bruce Lanphear at Little Things Matter
littlethingsmatter.ca/2020/09/18/fluoride
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This 30 minute presentation takes an extended look into the scientific literature on fluoride's neurotoxicity currently under systematic review by the National Toxicology Program (NTP). Chris Neurath, FAN Research Director offers comments on the NTP review and shows, through a benchmark-dose analysis, that fluoride is a neurotoxic risk to children, in utero and in infancy, at exposure levels seen in fluoridated communities.
More on the NTP Fluoride Review here: http://fluoridealert.org/content/overview-ntp
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The report reconfirms that fluoride is "presumed to be a cognitive
neurodevelopmental hazard to humans" while claiming that the evidence is stronger and more consistent for studies in which subjects were consuming water fluoride at or above 1.5 ppm.
In this video, FAN's research director Chris Neurath and executive director Paul Connett drill down into the new report and discuss why the NTP's conclusions should effectively end water fluoridation as a public health policy.
Download the e-poster "Fluoride Developmental Neurotoxicity: Dose-Response Analyses of Recent High Quality Studies." fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/ISEE2020-ePoster-Neurath.pdf
Access the full NTP review: http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/ntp.revised-monograph.9-16-2020.pdf
Video: What is margin of safety? youtu.be/a6j_rVuRjcM
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