Paul Connett lives in Binghamton, New York - a city that has the public health benefit of water fluoridation. Paul Connett is a prominent water fluoridation critic, executive director of the Binghamton, New York based ''Fluoride Action Network'' (FAN), one of the largest organizations opposing water fluoridation worldwide. The Fluoride Action Network is funded, at least in part, by Joseph Mercola. Joseph Mercola has been identified by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate as the leading COVID disinformationist. Connett has been invited by environmental organizations opposing fluoridation to lecture on the subject in fluoridating countries such as

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, Australia and

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. Connett has stated "It’s politics that is interfering with science in this issue...It’s a matter of political will, and you cannot change political will if you don’t get the people. We must involve the people."

Early life

Connett is English, and is a graduate of

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. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from

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Political activism

Connett became involved in political activism in 1968. He volunteered for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign, where he met

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. In 1971, Connett co-founded

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, a non-violent group taking humanitarian aid into

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during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Paul's wife Ellen was arrested during one of Omega's trips into East Pakistan and spent two months imprisoned there.

University career

After teaching chemistry and toxicology for 23 years at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, he retired from his full professorship. He is currently also the director of the ''American Environmental Health Studies Project'' (AEHSP).

Fluoridation campaign

In 2004, Connett published the paper ''50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation'' in ''Medical Veritas'', a pseudoscientific journal described by

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as "fundamentally flawed". In 2010 he coauthored; ''The Case against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There'' along with Dr. James Beck and Dr. H. Spedding Micklem. He also wrote the book in 2013; "The Zero Waste Solution". and assisted the city of

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in pursuing its zero waste strategy.Paul Connett helping Naples
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References

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