Once upon a time, there was a New York City Councilman who introduced a bill to end the process of treating the public water supply with fluoride, a pollutant from the aluminum and fertilizer industry. But alas, a pro-fluoridation view prevailed and the councilman’s bill was put aside despite the proven long term human health effects of consuming fluoridated water such as reduced intelligence, bone frailty, dental fluorosis, and cancer.
One public radio outlet at the time described the bill this way “A City Council member wants New Yorkers to brush their teeth – and not rely on the public water system to provide fluoride – for healthy teeth.” First, no one wanted New Yorkers to brush their teeth and second, fluoridated water doesn’t provide for healthy teeth. We would expect more from public radio such as telling us about the studies that nearly 50 percent of the daily fluoride intake accumulates in the bone and 41 percent of children between 12 and 14 have some form of dental fluorosis.
I might suggest that treating the entire populace for dental health via public water supply is a similar imposition to the faulted logic of bathing entire communities with 5G wireless millimeter radio waves. Where is the freedom of choice? Children and the elderly are disproportionally effected by fluoride and radiation, both cumulative in the body.
According to Fluoridealert.org, 97% of western Europe has rejected water fluoridation and communities worldwide are voting to remove fluoride from their public water supply. Since 2010, more than 240 communities have rejected it, including Calgary, Alberta, Windsor, Ontario, Portland, Oregon, Wichita, Kansas, and Bucks County Pennsylvania.
We welcome back Dr. Paul Connett to talk about this under-reported positive change, his work in exposing fluoride as a deadly industrial waste and also what’s going on with a recent legal challenge to the EPA.
Guest – Dr. Paul Connett is Professor Emeritus in Environmental Chemistry at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. For the past 30 years, Dr. Connett has put his scientific knowledge to work by freely helping communities around the world understand the science of controversial issues such as incineration and fluoridation. He’s the director of the Fluoride Action Network and author of The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There and The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time.