More fuel for the fluoride fire

A study coming out today identifies risk to kids' IQs from fluoride--but in higher doses than used in the US, and is not related to use of fluoride in water.

A new meta-study coming out today in JAMA Pediatrics including 74 studies on the safety of fluoride use for kids found a slight decrease in IQ scores overall with increased fluoride. However, none of the included studies were conducted in the US, and foreign studies have usually included higher dosages of fluoride than used in the US. The authors of the…