A first-time councillor has been criticised for lobbying her elected colleagues and the district health board over her anti-fluoride views.
Siggi Henry, a Hamilton City councillor, claims health experts and "smarty pants" scientists have brainwashed the public with misinformation over fluoride, Fairfax says.
In an email seen by the Herald, the long-time anti-fluoride campaigner has urged Waikato District Health Board (DHB) and the council to take up the cause.
It comes after Henry played down her extreme anti-fluoride views during her campaign to become a councillor.
In the email Henry said she did not believe fluoride statistics promoted by Health Minister Jonathan Coleman and Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne when they announced last week that legislation has been introduced to enable DHBs to decide whether community water supplies are fluoridated, instead of councils.