A key panel of experts in the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Toxicology Program has voted to strike out an error in a pivotal and controversial report on the effects of water fluoridation on human intelligence.
The National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) voted unanimously in a meeting on May 16th to remove text related to an IQ statistic that suggested fluoride was linked to a .46 drop in IQ related to water fluoridation.
In fact, the drop calculated was closer to 7 percent which is significant given that a 5-point decrease in a population’s IQ would nearly double the number of people classified as intellectually disabled….