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People these days may see you as a weirdo if you talk about the healing properties of ants or any other holistic practices. Like everything else, there is a lot of politics and mor
-hind our modern medical syste
It all starts with John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), who was an oil tycoon, a robber baron, and the first billionaire and monopolist in the United States. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he controlled 90% of all oil refineries in the USA through his oil company.
Standard Oil, which was later split into companies like Chevron, Exxon, and Mobil.
Around 1900, scientists discovered “petrochemicals” and the ability to create all kinds of
chemicals from petroleum. The first plastic was made in 1907, and scientists also identified several vitamins, leading to the assumption that many pharmaceutical drugs could be derived from petroleum.
This presented a wonderful opportunity for Rockefeller, who recognized the potential
to monopolize the petroleum, medical and chemical industries simultaneously. The best thing about petrochemicals was that everything could be patented and sold at a high profit.
However, there was a problem with Rockefeller’s plan for the medical industry: natural and herbal medicines were very popular in America at that time. Almost half of the doctors and medical universities in the United States practiced holistic medicine, utilizing the knowledge of the indigenous peoples of Europe and America.
Consequently, Rockefeller had to find a way to eliminate his biggest competition. So, he employed the classic “solution-problem-reaction” strategy. This involved creating a problem to scare people and then offering a pre-planned solution.
He went to his friend Andrew Carnegie, another plutocrat who made his fortune by
monopolizing the steel industry, and together they devised a scheme. Through the prestigious Carnegie Foundation, they sent a man named Abraham Flexner to travel across the country and report to the heads of medical colleges and hospitals."
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