Along with the well-documented Wolf-Chaikoff effect, we find an abundance of News stories from the 1920's re: Iodine POISONING, iodine SUICIDE, iodine used as a WEAPON, EVIL iodine added to bootleg liquor as a colorant. "Hysterical" women and girls seemed to be particularly vulnerable to the allure of EVIL IODINE, and were prone to drinking it as an attempt to commit suicide.
In my searching, most of the news stories say nothing about people actually dying from ingestion. I did come across one, but it's not free to view...
So, what went on here? The health benefits of iodine were well-known in the early part of this century. How is it that for a brief period in American History Iodine was demonized?
We certainly see how the mass media can control the thoughts of people. *I read it in the newspaper, therefore it must be true*
Was this an early example of manipulating public opinion?

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Girl Visitor Drinks Iodine! ~1920


http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9806E6DB1E3DE533A25754C0A96...


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Woman drinks Iodine on Doorstep of Man who accused her of Robbery! ~1922


http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9506E1D71F39EF3ABC4952DFB76...


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Scolded, She Drinks Iodine! ~1922


http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9907E1D61630E433A2575BC2A96...


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Takes Poison in Church, Girl's screams after Swallowing Poison Startle Holy Trinity Parishioners! ~1921


http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407E5D8153CE533A25750C2A96...


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Says He Threw Iodine! ~1921


http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9900E4D7173EEE3ABC4E52DFBE6...


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'TIRED OF LIFE,' TRIES TO DIE; Girl Collapses After Taking Iodine, but Will Recover.! ~1922


http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=950CE2DD1339EF3ABC4F53DFBE6...


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Athlete Near Death from Taking Poison! ~1922


http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A03E3D91E3EEE3ABC4851DFB76...


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GIRL FOUND POISONED.; Sailors Rescue Sufferer From Iodine on Riverside Drive. ! ~1922


http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9504E7DA1531EF33A25750C1A96...


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IODINE used in bootleg LIQUOR


http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9404E4DD1E3EEE3ABC4A52DFB56...



http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F01E0D81E3CE533A2575BC2A96...


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Guy Abraham, MD, on Medical Iodophobia:


http://www.optimox.com/pics/Iodine/IOD-16/PUB_16.htm


...Before World War II, non-radioactive forms of inorganic iodine were considered a panacea for all human ills,10 but today, they are avoided by physicians like leprosy. Who and/or what killed iodine?

The first nail in the iodine coffin was the publication by Wolff and Chaikoff from UC Berkley in 1948,11 describing their findings in rats administered Iodide in increasing amounts by intraperitoneal injection. When serum inorganic iodide levels reached 0.2 mg/L, that is 10-6M, radioiodide uptake by the thyroid gland became undetectable. The correct interpretation would be: Iodide sufficiency of the thyroid gland was achieved when serum inorganic iodide levels reach 10-6M, as we previously discussed.9 But Wolff and Chaikoff concluded that serum inorganic iodide levels at a concentration of 10-6M blocks the synthesis of thyroid hormones, resulting in hypothyroidism and goiter. These authors did not measure thyroid hormones in the rats studied. Hypothyroidism and goiter were not observed in those rats. This fictitious phenomenon became known as the Wolff-Chaikoff effect.12

The second and final nail in the iodine coffin was hammered in by Wolff in 1969.12 By 1969, Dr. Wolff had moved to the National Institute of Health. He arbitrarily defined four levels of “iodine excess.” The first level of excess started with intake above 0.2 mg/day, and iodide intake of 2 mg or more was considered “excessive and potentially harmful.” By the 1970s, physicians concluded that one must avoid inorganic, non-radioactive iodine like leprosy, unless it was incorporated into toxic, organic iodine-containing drugs. Then iodine could be tolerated because iodine could be blamed for the toxicity of these drugs.

Whereas the first wave of medical iodophobia was initiated in 1910 by the pen of one man, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate, Professor Theodore Kocher and lasted some 15 years (1910-1925),1 the second wave of medical iodophobia initiated in 1948 by the pen of two men, Wolff and Chaikoff, is alive and well even after some 60 years of existence.

As unbelievable as it may sound, the Kocher iodophobic effect was initiated by a report from Kocher one year after he received the Nobel Prize, stating that he had experienced symptoms of hyperthyroidism following ingestion of potassium iodide. One man, reporting his experience using iodine on himself initiated the first wave of medical iodophobia. After 15 years of intimidation, preventing the widespread effective use of iodine, due to the Kocher iodophobic effect, physicians were able to escape from the Kocher inhibition because of poor synchronization of iodophobic publications and a small nucleus of enlightened members of the medical profession. The amazing success and long duration of the Wolff-Chaikoff iodophobic effect on the medical community is most likely due to the well-synchronized timing of a series of iodophobic publications and also due to iodine deprived and zombified physicians who were unable to escape from the Wolff-Chaikoff effect. The rats used in the Wolff-Chaikoff experiment were successful in escaping the Wolff-Chaikoff effect because they received significant amounts of iodine, improving their cognition..."

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