Tooth decay: How sugar industry falsifies science to sell fluoride that ingests teeth

Tooth decay: How sugar industry falsifies science to sell fluoride that ingests teeth

Internal sugar industry and dental organisation documents, analysed by the study’s author Christopher Neurath, detail how the sugar industry helped shape the public health policies that, for decades, touted fluoride as a “magic bullet” against tooth decay.

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Probe: US ministry of health agency gave Covid experiments at China’s Wuhan Institute greenlight despite concerns

Probe: US ministry of health agency gave Covid experiments at China’s Wuhan Institute greenlight despite concerns

Recently obtained government emails for the first time lay bare the NIH “gain-of-function” review committee’s informal vetting of the controversial project, demonstrating the agency’s weak oversight of the potentially dangerous research it funded at the lab where some critics believe the pandemic started.

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Kenya’s leisure hub at the coast push for slice of world conference tourism besides rich sun and beach holiday menu

Kenya’s leisure hub at the coast push for slice of world conference tourism besides rich sun and beach holiday menu

As the industry celebrates the World Tourism Week, Kenya has been described as a strategic and ideal destination for regional and international meetings. The International Congress and Convention Association’s (ICCA) report of 2024, shows that MICE drives global travel growth and has outpaced leisure tourism.

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Reprieve for under siege Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga as contractors suspend threat to paralyse operations

Reprieve for under siege Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga as contractors suspend threat to paralyse operations

Aloso said they have engaged the County Executive Committee Member for Finance Solomon Obiero who promised to pay them soon because the county had received money from the national treasury.

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Study: Coffee keeps urine system and heart healthy, slows liver disease’s progress to fibrosis, cirrhosis

Study: Coffee keeps urine system and heart healthy, slows liver disease’s progress to fibrosis, cirrhosis

For the first four areas, the authors pinpointed specific molecules that had been shown to be positively influenced by coffee in the existing data. In the fifth, they identified a variety of gut microbiome-balancing bacteria that coffee helps promote.

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Pop icon J-Lo says divorce from Ben Affleck ‘helped me grow in a way I needed to grow’

Pop icon J-Lo says divorce from Ben Affleck ‘helped me grow in a way I needed to grow’

Lopez and Affleck rekindled their romance in 2021 and they married in an intimate Las Vegas ceremony in July 2022. They later celebrated their nuptials with a ceremony in Georgia in front of friends and family a month later.

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Zionist: ‘Tel Aviv neighbourhood populated by East African immigrants as is rubbish-filled, dangerous and home to raggedy toothless prostitutes’

Zionist: ‘Tel Aviv neighbourhood populated by East African immigrants as is rubbish-filled, dangerous and home to raggedy toothless prostitutes’

At least two people involved in developing the deleted toolkit resigned from Christian Aid, according to internal communications.  The spokesperson said the deletion of the toolkit “does not reflect any change in attitude of support for LGBTQ+ staff”.

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Doublespeak? ‘Ungodly’ Christian Aid shocks staff with orders not to refer to Israeli atrocities in Gaza as ‘genocide

Doublespeak? ‘Ungodly’ Christian Aid shocks staff with orders not to refer to Israeli atrocities in Gaza as ‘genocide

During their September 18 meeting, several Christian Aid staff stressed the urgency to acknowledge the commission’s findings and proposed an infographic explaining the report’s implications.

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Why humanitarian agencies often confide al-Shabab would be a more efficient partner than the Somali government

Why humanitarian agencies often confide al-Shabab would be a more efficient partner than the Somali government

Despite this apparent governance success, al-Shabaab faces a crucial paradox: legitimacy without popularity. While Somalis may recognise the group’s administrative competence and align with its ideology up to a degree, it appears most do not want to live under al-Shabaab rule.

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 ‘Chemical timebomb’: Covid masks created 4.3 million tonnes of toxic waste

 ‘Chemical timebomb’: Covid masks created 4.3 million tonnes of toxic waste

Millions of tonnes of disposable Covid-19 face masks are releasing microplastics, toxic chemicals, dyes and heavy metals into the environment, endangering the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants. The risks could last for decades, according to a study published in Environmental Pollution. Millions of tonnes of waste from disposable...

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