Former BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano says senior editors repeatedly blocked his attempts to report on emerging scientific and legal findings questioning the safety of water fluoridation, dismissing the material as “scaremongering.”
According to a report by the Children’s Health Defense, Paduano, who reported for the broadcaster for 30 years, told a Fluoride Action Network press conference this week that he pursued the story after a 2024 US federal court ruling concluded that standard fluoridation levels posed an “unreasonable risk” to children.
Despite interviews arranged with experts and new evidence from cohort studies, BBC editors cancelled his coverage, insisted the science hadn’t changed and accused him of “bias”, even after a leading pro-fluoridation adviser acknowledged the UK may need to reconsider its dosage guidelines.
Paduano escalated the issue to senior BBC leadership, arguing that suppressing new information misled the public, but received no meaningful response and ultimately left the embattled state-funded organisation.
He says subsequent BBC reporting on fluoridation expansions ignored the US judgment and emerging research, reflecting what he sees as systemic bias and a desire to avoid “worrying audiences.”
The BBC, in responses to formal complaints, defended its approach by citing majority expert opinion from bodies such as the WHO and CDC, insisting it must maintain a high bar for reporting potential health risks. Critics, including FAN scientists, argue this stance amounts to censorship that undermines public trust in science and the legacy mainstream media.
” defended its approach by citing majority expert opinion from bodies such as the WHO”
Well there is the problem. Believing The World Health Organisation is infallible. How is the WHO’s investigation into covid going? Oh, thats right, they are confused on what lies to tell now after they have protected the private interests at wuhan and ecohealth etc for years.
“… undermines public trust in science and the legacy mainstream media.”
I nearly fell of my chair laughing.
BBC is fake news deep state propaganda dressed up with an air of English upper class respectability. Only fools believe what they say.
Ashley Bloomfield’s last act on the last day of office was to enact a law to force councils in NZ to add fluoride poison to our water.
There will be a special place in hell reserved for that despicable man considering all the evils he perpetrated on this country.