In houghton county, which is michigan's upper pen la, 538 young men were brought before the draft board. A third of those draftees showed a demonstrable enlargement of the thyroid. Michael zimberman says some of the earliest attempts to fix the problem were a disaster.
A century ago, a mysterious and disfiguring disease was finally cured by an experiment in Akron, Ohio . . . with a condiment. We ask: it is time to return to Akron, and try the same trick again? Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio.
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