Paul Connett PhD In-Studio: The Case Against Fluoride! - hot direct from Austin
Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett's environmental activism goes beyond his classes.
Investigations into the scientific evidence against the practice of water fluoridation has become a family affair for the Connett household. His son Michael '99 is the research director and Webmaster for the Fluoride Action Network (http://www.fluoridealert.org), and his wife, Ellen, is also involved in researching the topic. All three presented scientific papers at the 26th Conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research, held in Wiesbaden, Germany, recently.
Paul Connett has received numerous awards and citations for his work, and frequently participates in community discussions on fluoridation. A graduate of Cambridge University, Connett holds a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College and joined the faculty at St. Lawrence in 1983. Connett's opposition to incineration as a method of managing solid waste, based on his chemical analysis of the byproducts of the process, has taken him to 49 states, five Canadian provinces and 44 other countries. He has given over 1,700 public presentations, written many articles on dioxin and waste management and co-produced several videotapes on those topics, as a result of that research.
In addition to his passionate interest in environmental chemistry, Connett is also a classical music aficionado, often playing favorite pieces for students in his classes, and hosting a music program on North Country Public Radio.
Connett says that he has devoted a great deal of time and effort to grass-roots environmental organizations during his career, because "that is the place where we can effect genuine change."
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Some Publications
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P. Connett, Waterborne Fluoride and Bone Fractures.Guest Editorial in Fluoride 34, 2, 91-94 (2001).
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P. Connett and T. Webster, Dioxin emission inventories: the importance of large sources, DIOXIN '96, Amsterdam. (August 1996)
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P.Connett and E. Connett, Municipal Waste Incineration: Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question, The Ecologist 1 (1994).
- P. Connett, Dioxin: The Watergate of Molecules, a paper presented at Clarion College, PA on April 2, 1993. 51 pp.
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P. Connett and B. Elmore, editors, Proceedings of the First Citizens' Conference on Dioxin (1992).
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P. Connett, "The Disposable Society" chapter 7 in Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle, edited by F. Herbert Bormann and Stephen R. Kellert (1991) Yale University Press.
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P. Connett, "Municipal Waste Incineration and Risk Analyses: The Need to Ask Larger Questions. Floridawatch Institute, PO Box 72112, Gainesville, FL 32605. 11 pp. 1991
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P. Connett, Risk Assessment: A Public Hazard? Journal of Pesticide Reform, 10, 1, pp. 26-31. 1990
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P. Connett, Waste Management: As If the Future Mattered. St. Lawrence University, Canton NY 13617. 1988.
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- With Tom Webster, co-authored six papers on dioxin, presented at the
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10, and 16th International Symposia on Dioxin,
held in Japan, Las Vegas, Sweden, Toronto, Germany,, and the Netherlands.
The first five of these papers were published in Chemosphere.
- Co-editor with wife Ellen Connett, from 1988 to the present, of the newsletter
Waste Not, published 48
times per year. Waste Not is a summary of major news events
in waste issues that provides citizens the information they are not getting
from the waste disposal industry and governmental agencies.
- Videotapes - Produced, with Roger Bailey of Video-Active Productions, 41 videotapes on various aspects of waste management. Click here to see a list of titles: Work on Waste Videos , Dioxin Videos.
- April 2000 - Recipient of Leadership Award- Environmental Protector: Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides - "for encouraging clear scientific thinking and inciting environmental activism."
- 1992: member of the editorial advisory board of E Magazine.
- Has made over 1800 presentation in 49 states in the United States and in 47other countries.
- During 1989-90, member of the New York State Senate advisory panel on solid waste management.
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During 1988-90, member of advisory panel to the Office of Technology Assessment, Washington DC,(an arm of Congress) for their study of solid waste management in the U.S.
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