"Why didn’t somebody speak up when iodine suddenly went missing from the medical arsenal?

The plot thickened when I discovered iodine was called “dangerous” by a research duo in 1948.

Their opinion was contradicted by all the previous years when iodine was used liberally for everything from syphilis to breast cancer. No matter. Somehow iodine’s historic benefits were suddenly snatched from the medical text books and largely banned from human research. Why?"

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