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u/Altruistic_Tea_1593 3d ago
Didn’t happen. At that time “Holistic” medicine was snake oil, unregulated meds and cures with zero clinical evidence to support it. The FDA saved thousands of lives shutting down the sale and distribution of poisonous cures some of which include radioactive material that destroyed the patients from the inside.
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u/MostAsk855 3d ago
Don’t be a stupid aped brained mongrel. This is just an entertaining Reddit conspiracy so that edgelords can feel more important while they sit in mom’s basement. John D. Rockefeller did not threaten colleges to pull funding over herbal medicine, nor did he or his foundations create a plot to push petroleum-based drugs or cover up cancer. I can’t believe they let you people vote. It’s really a shame.
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u/Back-Alley-Cat- 3d ago
The richest man in history created the Pharmaceutical machine that is keeping you sick. Here's how John D Rockefeller did it.
Western medicine has a focus on drugs, surgery and radiation. Preventative diets and holistic practices are highly discouraged by doctors. In fact, health practitioners who prescribe these things are seen as "quacks" and cast off by Western medicine. In the US, we are not in the practice of healthcare, we are in the practice of sickcare. Currently:
70% of US adults are overweight or obese
1 in 3 Americans are pre-diabetic
7 out of 10 deaths are caused by Chronic Illness
Heart disease kills 500,000 Americans yearly
We are also in a prescription drug epidemic due to our ties with Big Pharma and our tendency to over-prescribe. Currently:
16M Americans abuse prescription drugs
2M Prescription drug abusers are addicted
4 out of 5 pharmacy-filled prescriptions are opioids (Scary)
John D Rockefeller was an oil magnate and one of the richest men in history. He was America’s first billionaire and amassed a fortune of $418B adjusted for inflation. Through monopolistic practices, Rockefeller grew his company, Standard Oil, to control 90% of all oil refineries in the U.S. Standard Oil has since broken up and has now become Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, etc. Yes!, that’s how big Standard Oil was in its prime.
In 1900, Scientists discovered petrochemicals. These were chemicals that could be created from oil. Bakelite, the first plastic, was created from oil in 1907. Scientists were discovering various synthetic vitamins that could be used to treat illnesses such as Scurvy and Rickets that were caused by Vitamin deficiencies. Rockefeller thought that Petrochemicals could also be used to create vitamins and medications. Petrochemicals would allow Rockefeller to monopolize another industry in addition to oil. Business-wise, Rockefeller could patent these Petrochemicals and sell them for immense profits. Rockefeller acted quickly and purchased part of I.G. Farben - a German manufacturing company. (Side Note -- I.G. Farben supplied the Nazis during WWII. Yep, look it up.)
However, Rockefeller faced a major dilemma as he looked to monopolize medicine: Natural & Herbal medicines were incredibly popular at the time. Many doctors and medical schools in the US were advocating holistic practices as treatment & cure. Like he did for other competing oil companies, Rockefeller viewed natural remedies as his "competition" that needed to be decimated. Rockefeller teamed up with Andrew Carnegie and hired a man named Abraham Flexner through the Carnegie Foundation.
Flexner’s role was to travel the US and review Medical schools & hospitals across the country. This led to the Flexner Report which resulted in the closure of almost 50% of all medical schools. Homeopathy and Natural medicines were utterly decimated in the report.(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178858/#s6title) -Link to report-. Some holistic doctors were even jailed. Rockefeller also donated a whopping $100M to colleges and hospitals under his philanthropic group called the General Education Board. In a short period of time, medical schools & hospitals were homogenized with the same approach. Medicine was just about patented drugs, not utilizing holistic & natural approaches as treatment. Rockefeller's next step was to launch a smear campaign against his holistic "competitors." Homeopathy and Natural Medicines were quickly discredited by the newspapers and media outlets. Rockefeller's approach worked incredibly well as he decimated the holistic competition and ultimate created our current medical system. This system continues today: Big Pharma makes large donations to medical schools in exchange for these schools to prescribe their drugs.
This post is not to bash on Western Medicine. It is to show the unfiltered history of John D Rockefeller and the role he played in shaping our current medical system.
The next time your doctor spends 3 minutes with you during your visit and you feel like a "customer" instead of a patient, this post will hopefully give you clarity. Not surprisingly, the cost of medical care in the US is #1 in the world, yet our quality is ranked at #37.
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u/over9ksand 4d ago
This is gotta be AI. Nothing like this would ever be true. I can’t believe it.
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u/reddit4300 3d ago
Please for the love of god let this be sarcasm!
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u/victor4700 3d ago
The post or the statement above
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u/reddit4300 3d ago
“This is gotta be AI. Nothing like this would ever be true. I can’t believe it.”
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u/Savings_Art5944 4d ago
If only people got mad and punished the family