Water Fluoridation
In this video, Paul Connett spends about 32 minutes speaking on "Water Fluoridation" at the 40th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Paul Connett
PAUL CONNETT, Ph.D. is a graduate of Cambridge University, England, and holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Since 1983, he taught Chemistry at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he specialized in Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology. He retired in May 2006. Over the past 27 years his research on waste management has taken him to 49 states in the US, 7 provinces in Canada and 53 other countries, where he has given over 2500 pro bono public presentations. Ralph Nader said of Paul Connett, "He is the only person I know who can make waste interesting." A recent essay on "Zero Waste for Sustainability," along with several videotapes Paul has made on Zero Waste, can be accessed at www.AmericanHealthStudies.org. This site is hosted by the group American Environmental Health Studies Project (AEHSP), which Paul directs. In March 2012, Paul was the lead author of a book published in Italian entitled Zero Waste: A Revolution in Progress. In addition to covering the Zero Waste movement in Italy, this book contains guest essays from 10 experts on Zero Waste from North America. Paul Connett has researched the literature on fluoride's toxicity and the fluoridation debate for 16 years. He helped found the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) see http://www.fluoridealert.org He has given invited presentations on the dangers of fluoridation to legislative and research bodies in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, the UK and the US. He has also given invited presentations to both the US EPA and the US National Research Council. With two other authors he published the book The Case Against Fluoride (Chelsea Green) in 2010. As of August 28, 2012 there has yet to be a scientifically referenced rebuttal to this book, which contains 80 pages of citations to the scientific literature on the subject.
Transcription
Well, what you're about to hear could be a play written by Kafka, maybe George Orwell maybe and Hans Christian Andersen.
It's an unbelievable fairy tale as far as medicine is concerned in this country. As you may well know, California has mandatory fluoridation. Los Angeles's is fluoridated, that much of metropolitan district is fluoridated. And San Diego with Florida just about a a year ago, despite the fact that many of these communities have voted against fluoridation.
So we're looking at something which is bad medicine and bad for democracy.
I spent 16 years researching this issue. And the culmination of that research is this book written by two excellent coauthors, James Beck, M.D., P. D, physicist from Calgary, and Spreading Mickleham, who has his doctorate in biology from Oxford. He's from Edinburgh and the three of us produced this book. Every argument is documented with 80 pages of references to the scientific literature, 80 pages.
And in the 22 months that that book has been published, there's been not one single scientific response to that book. They do as everything they don't like. They just completely ignore it. When I say they, I'm talking about the US health authority. I want to be talking about the fact that fluoridation is a poor medical practice. It violates common sense.
It's the evidence of fluoridation. Actually, lowest tooth decay is extremely weak and there's no adequate margin of safety to protect all citizens from known health effects of fluoride. Now, that's one argument that there is the myth that fluoride causes health problems. Millions of people have had their helds damaged in India and China and parts of Africa where they have high natural levels of fluoride in their drinking water.
And the real argument is whether there's an adequate margin of safety between the doses, which we know damages bones, damages brains, damages the education system and the doses that we're likely to get in the United States. Is that margin of safety sufficient to protect everyone? And the answer is a resounding no.
And finally, I want to recruit your help to end this foolish practice. There's some simple things that you can do in addition to reading our book. It's a poor medical practice, except for an early experiment with iodine before fluoridation. We've never used the public water supply to deliver medicine for obvious reasons. Once you put something in the water, you can't control the dose and you can't control who gets the medicine. They make a big thing about controlling the concentration at the waterworks to approximately one part per million. But just because your engineers can control the concentration milligrams per liter, it