Post by Riccardo Bevilacqua
Radiation safety and scientific strategy leader in global MedTech | PhD nuclear physics
In 1955, a used-car dealer in Sauk City, Wisconsin, got in trouble for keeping uranium ore in the back of his office. But there was a twist. He was not accused because the uranium was too radioactive. The FDA case focused on the medical claims he was making and, in a strange way, on the fact that the uranium ore emitted too little radioactivity to support them. This is the curious story of Royal A. Dickson, Gama-Ray Co., and one of the strangest “atomic cures” of the 1950s.
