In this Arizona debate Dr. Paul Connett, the founder of The Fluoride Action Network (FAN), and Dr. Howard Farran, DDS, winner of the Arizona Department
of Health Service Dental Public Health Award for his efforts in
fluoridating the City of Phoenix, trade blows over water fluoridation. I think Dr. Farran's initial presentation could have been more thoughtfully approached. I would have opened with attacking anti-fluoridation from the bottom up by examining belief, conspiratorial thinking, and the scientific method. Instead he begins by attempting to show the large scientific consensus on the effectiveness of fluoride, which your average anti-fluoridationist is already aware of. The house is obviously packed with anti-fluoride people, you can tell by their yells and the absence of clapping for Farran. Most of the studies which Paul Connett refers to are debunked in my previous blogpost so I feel like its unnecessary to say anything more about them except, like all conspiracy theorists, he loves cherry-picked data. He even references the same video for professionals to watch (the one covered in my fluoride mythology post) instead of reading his book.
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