Dr. Paul Connett, PhD – Speaking out against water fluoridation.
By: Robin MacLennan, Special to The Packet & Times – Orillia, Ontario 17-Feb-2012 — Local governments are doing to everyone what a doctor can do to no one, says Paul Connett, an international speaker and opponent of fluoridation.
Connett visited Orillia Friday and delivered strong warnings to an audience of about 60 people at Lakehead University about the dangers of adding fluoride to public drinking water.
“Local governments can choose to put fluoride into everyone’s water or allow people to apply it themselves using fluoridated toothpastes,” he said in an interview prior to his presentation. “The first approach exposes every tissue of the body to a toxic substance and the second approach avoids that and also avoids forcing it upon people who don’t want it.”
The public meeting was organized by citizens concerned that city council is considering adding fluoride to drinking water in an attempt to combat tooth decay.
Connett, who holds a PhD in chemistry, said there are two fundamental scientific questions on water fluoridation: Does it work? Is it safe? The answer to both is no, he said, using a tube of toothpaste to back up his claim.
A pea-sized drop of toothpaste contains about the same amount of fluoride as a large glass of water, he said, showing a toothpaste label warning against swallowing the product.
Connett has been speaking out against fluoridation for more than 16 years, starting in his hometown and spreading around the world.
“It has been a very frustrating experience that has changed my notion that I was living in a rational world where people respected science,” he said. “For Health Canada, it’s more important to protect this (fluoridated water) program than it is to protect the health of the people.”
Local municipal politicians are often intimidated by dentists and other professionals who support adding fluoride to local drinking water, he said.
“They are taught at school that people against this are all a bunch of loony-tunes,” he said. “But we know it makes no sense to swallow it and it makes even less sense to put fluoride into drinking water when fluoridated toothpaste is available to everyone.”
Drinking treated water exposes internal organs to an unnecessary toxic chemical that “violates nature’s own guidelines.”
“This is a terrible medical practice and a most unusual medical practice that should never have been started,” he said. “It is the only time we use the public water system to deliver medication to individuals.”
He backed up his theory with the example of a baby being fed formula receiving 175 times more fluoride than a breast-fed infant.
“That defies common sense. There is not a single process in the body that needs fluoride…”
He used Calgary and Waterloo as examples of communities that heard his message and removed fluoride from drinking water recently.
“Fluoride met its Waterloo in Waterloo and also in Calgary,” he said. “Over two million people have been freed from fluoride in the past 14 months. Let’s hope it (fluoridation) doesn’t happen in Orillia.”
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