No need for histrionics here.I think whoever started this high iodine craze should be ashamed of themselves. No telling who all this protocol has hurt. Thankfully this is one thing I never got caught up in. Just eat seafood, eggs, and occasionally use some iodized salt (once a week, maybe) and you'll never have to worry about iodine deficiency. Large dosages (in the milligrams) can wreck havoc.
Doctors in the past have used iodine successfully. Back when many doctors knew more than we do. We didn't have to experiment because there were doctors we could turn to.
It hasn't been the case for a long time now. Doctors are just being taught as technicians, and are not allowed to use iodine. Not because it doesn't work, but because with their dumbed down training they can't handle the nuances of using it.
There are risks involved, and not everyone can manage these risks. Some just rush headlong into something without rtfm, and some are impatient for quick results and often want to bite more than they can chew.
Because there are always people who get harmed by their lack of caution, that should not be a reason for you to think that the use of some substances should be banned..
You may be influenced very much by Ray Peat's thinking on iodine, in which he discourages its use. But I think Ray Peat, as a leader that has a cult following, is bound to the legalities and the politics of the current environment of blaming the messenger, and plays by those rules.
He also knows there are many followers who think in black and white, as can be gleaned from how he answers on interviews, which is addressed to the simple "yes or no" mindset of substandard American Talmudist-influenced educated graduates of the public school system.
He knows there are few who will read his books and newsletters and be able to fully internalize them, but to those who will and can, he probably knows the greater latitude of freedom to use substances outside the boundaries of the authoritarian medical regime, is a.necessary path in seeking health.