On May 4, 2018, Julia Hanna and Aya Katz spoke with Dr. Paul Connett about the effects of water fluoridation on the health of human populations exposed to this practice.
Dr. Paul Connett is a graduate of Cambridge University and holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Dartmouth College. From 1983 until he retired in May 2006, he taught chemistry at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY where he specialized in Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology. Over the past 32 years his research on waste management has taken him to 49 states in the US, 7 provinces in Canada and 65 other countries, where he has given over 2500 pro bono public presentations. He helped found the Fluoride Action Network
(FAN) for which he is the current executive director. He has given invited presentations on the dangers of fluoridation in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, New
Zealand, the UK and the US. This has included invited presentations in 2003 to
both the US EPA and the US National Research Council.
In our interview on May 4, 2018 Dr. Connett discussed the following topics:
- How he came to realize that fluoride is dangerous for human populations.
- How fluoride is treated differently from other toxic substances like arsenic.
- The fact that the MCLG allowed by EPA for fluoride is 4.0, while for arsenic it is zero.
- The fact that there has never been a double blind controlled study of the benefits of fluoride.
- The fact that recent medical studies reveal that any benefit conferred by fluoride to teeth is in fact topical and therefore fluoride need not be swallowed to derive the benefit.
- The contraindications for adding fluoride to drinking water, including lowered IQ, rheumatoid arthritis, hypothyroidism, and skeletal and dental fluorosis.
- The way in which water fluoridation effectively medicates whole populations without obtaining informed consent.
For more information about this topic, read The Case Against Fluoride, available on Amazon.
