Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pulling Your Own Strings, Dyer...
Despite such apparent benefits, many groups such as the Massachusetts Citizens' Rights Association, Inc., have lobbied against the state project since the plan's inception ten years ago. The group opposes fluoridation on the basis of individual rights, Elizabeth E. Dyer, secretary of the association, says...
...entitled to freedom of choice, and no segment of the population can tell us what we should drink," Dyer says. "We don't believe we should be made guinea pigs," she adds...
...organization also argues that excessive amounts of fluoride in drinking water may be carcinogenic. Dyer cited a 1975 study by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, science director of the National Health Federation (NHF), another anti-fluoridation group, based in California. That study indicated that during a 20-year period cancer death rates in ten large fluoridated cities surpassed those in comparably sized non-fluoridated cities...
Despite their opposition to fluoridation because of alleged "side effects," anti-fluoridationists reluctantly admit that the process does have some beneficial effect on teeth. "Fluoridation does delay a few cavities in children," Dyer says...