Fluoride Action Network

Michael has spent more than two decades investigating the science, history, and politics of water fluoridation.

His family founded the Fluoride Action Network in 2000, and Michael later became the lead attorney in a landmark lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, challenging water fluoridation under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

After more than seven years of litigation and two trials, a federal judge ruled in 2024 that fluoridation poses an unreasonable risk to human health based on evidence of neurological effects, including reduced IQ in children.

In this episode, Michael takes us behind the scenes of that extraordinary legal battle.

So Michael, I had your colleague, Aaron Seery, on the show earlier this summer, and when I told him I was planning to interview you, he essentially said, "Michael is to fluoride what I am to vaccines," meaning that you are one of the world's foremost attorneys in the fight against water fluoridation.

I'm curious if you can take us back to, um, to your family.

I know that you have family involvement in the Fluoride Action Network.

Can you tell me a little bit about that?