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Dead-Head Denialism: Challenging “Sceptics” of Climate Change to Fluoridation is Zombie Warfare
It has been a while since I’ve commented on much in the way of climate science and the denial movement. Although aware of the recent noise regarding the supposed “proof” of the unfounded “scare” regarding anthropogenic climate change, citing Otto et al (2013) or foaming bile in reply to the Cook et al (2013) study illustrating … Continue reading
Rinehart’s Bleeding Heart Over Her Poor Business Model
Gina Rinehart has produced a poor-hard-done-by video, which screams hypocrisy, hypobolic, guilt by association and “poising the well” arguments as much as stupidity. It is mind-boggling that she can whine about the tax placed on profiteering on common goods, but then to state that “without mining and mining related industries, this country has no hope of repaying … Continue reading
The National Institutes of Health funded study found no relation between tooth decay and the amount of fluoride ingested by children
The following is a new argument under my Anti-Fluoridation Arguments page above. Firstly, key points from the NIH website page on fluoridation facts; Fluoride in water helps to prevent and can even reverse tooth decay. More than 60 percent of the U.S. population has access to fluoridated water through public water supply systems. The optimal level of … Continue reading
Being Wrong: How we deal with it makes all the difference.
I’ve talked a lot about similarities between the so-called “climate sceptics”, anti-vaccination activists and creationists in the past, and much of those similarities could also be shared with the anti-fluoridation camp as well, but there is one aspect of similarity between each of these four groups that I have yet to discuss. From my experience, … Continue reading
Fluoridation, Arsenic and the Rates of Cancer in Australia
In reality, I must thank Dan Germouse for his bombastic comments on my article, How Not to Argue in Favour of Environments: Water Fluoridation in Portland. He both demonstrated how not to argue against fluoridation and provided me with yet another argument rebuttal to add to my new anti-fluoridation rebuttal page. This argument: “The fluoridation … Continue reading
Quick Answers to Typical Anti-fluoridation Arguments
I know I repeat myself a lot in my articles on water fluoridation. I do so because the anti-fluoridation activists have proven themselves unable or at the least unwilling to look into references that may seriously challenge their position. Ultimately, they have also shown the same resistance towards completely reading an article or even watching … Continue reading
ABC Paying the Price for Disingenuous Articles: Giving Air to Anti-Wind Farm Ideologs
The ABC is one of the few local news sources I still pay close attention to. Over the past decade or so, I have systematically cut any interest in other news sources when I’ve found obvious bias and misinformation – largely in relation to ecology or climate change. As a blogger whom challenges misinformation, this … Continue reading
How Not to Argue in Favour of Environments: Water Fluoridation in Portland
It is disappointing to see that at least a subgroup of the well-known Sierra Club have fallen in with misinformation. Whilst doing a little research for my previous article on osteosarcoma rates in relation to water fluoridation in Australia, I stumbled upon the following article; Sierra Club Opposes Portland Water Fluoridation Measure 26-151, on the … Continue reading
Osteosarcoma Rates in Australia: Is Fluoridation Doing Us Harm?
Prior to this article, I must include an increasingly common disclaimer. I do so because my experiences thus far with the anti-fluoridation crusaders has taught me two things; 1) such individuals are quick to assume secret agenda, and, 2) their blinkers are set to a hair-trigger in the face of alternative and more robust theories … Continue reading
How Tony Abbott killed the Australian climate sceptic movement and schooled them in realpolitik
Reblogged from Watching the Deniers: In June of 2012 I wrote a post on the politics of climate change in Australia and what to expect in 2013 and 2014. At the time I thought it overly optimistic, if not risky given that most predictions turn out to be spectacularly wrong. Titled The coming disappointment: how … Continue reading
