FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK

FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
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FAN Bulletin 1086: 2009 Winners of FAN's Scientific Integrity Award
August 7, 2009,
In 2006, realizing that our strongest weapon against fluoridation was our scientific integrity, FAN initiated an annual award entitled the Albert Burgstahler Scientific Integrity Award in honor of someone who for over 40 years has demonstrated that quality. There is no financial reward attached to this award but we feel it is a great honor to be selected for this special public recognition. Each recipient receives a plague.

In 2006, the winner was Albert Burgstahler himself.
In 2007, the winners were Bill Hirzy PhD and Robert Carton PhD, former employees of the US EPA.
In 2008 the winners were Bob Isaacson PhD, Hardy Limeback DDS, PhD, and Kathleen Thiessen PhD, three co-authors of the groundbreaking National Research Council Review (NRC, 2006).

We are happy to announce the 2009 winners - there are four. Before we give their names we would like to explain why we have this number. We believe it is important to recognize that this battle is going on across the globe. To date all 6 winners have come from North America (5 from the the US and 1 from Canada). We do not believe that North America has the monopoly of scientific integrity among those doctors, dentists and other scientists fighting fluoridation - and it is time that we recognized that fact. This year's four winners come from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US. They include three dentists and one doctor. Here are the winners, in alphabetical order:

Andrew Harms, BDS
Jennifer Luke, BDS, PhD
Bill Osmunson, DDS, MPH
Bruce Spittle, MB, ChB, DPM, FRANZCP