You’re Worth More Sick or Crazy than Healthy

     By Robert Carter/July 11, 2024

     How did Big Pharma become that Big?

     You can thank the man who makes it possible for you to ice skate in mid-town Manhattan. John D. Rockefeller.

     Once the U. S. government had begun to break up his oil holdings in the early 1900’s because they had become too much of a monopoly, Rockefeller started looking around for another unconscionably profitable business venture. The Supreme Court had also just found him guilty of illegal business practices and racketeering.

     His oil companies had made him the richest man in the world and America’s first billionaire, but he now needed to replace his staggering income with something else. Preferably something made from petrochemicals, a by-product of his remaining oil holdings.

     “Ah,” he thought. “Drugs!”

     Although he himself knew the benefits of natural remedies – like most Americans in the nineteenth century, his family had thrived on homeopathy and natural remedies – he discovered that vitamins and other natural elements could not be patented. No money there. 

But drugs could be. Big money there.
He set out to take over that industry. 

     He started “investing” in medical schools. $550,000,000 right off the bat to the most prominentmedical schools, like the University of Chicago and Yale, but with the provision that they “teach” only allopathic, pharmaceutical based medicine. No natural cures here, please.

     Meanwhile, what was to become the FDA was then evolving from the Bureau of Chemistry, an early consumer rights organization that had become an agency that protected chemical companies from being sued because there was now a legal “plausible deniability” factor for any culpability for the harmful effects of chemicals. That early protection transferred to pharmaceutical companies — with the U. S. Government’s sanction – and that protection has remained in place for drug companies until only the last few years.

     Since its lifting, large, billion dollar penalties have finally been leveled against Big Pharma. Somebody is apparently waking up.

     In the early twentieth century Rockefeller – with his profit greedy pal, Andrew Carnegie — then set out to further remove the medical field from any involvement with natural remedies by hiring Abraham Flexner to tour medical schools and “evaluate” the treatments they taught. His 1910 Flexner Report helped persuade lawmakers to enact legislation that would license only physicians trained in patented, chemical based pharmacology, and in surgery.

     No “Take two Vitamin C and call me in the morning” advice from our practitioners,
thank you very much. The “drug and cut” foundation of American medical practice was born.

     Thus the Medical Mafia was born: the AMA, the FDA and Big Pharma. And that, boys and girls, is how Big Pharma has become so big.

And that’s why you’re worth more to them sick or crazy. All of Big Pharma’s synthetic, lucratively patentable drugs now prescribed by allopathic doctors are not designed to cure your physical or mental ills. They’re designed to make Big Pharma money.

     John D. was not unskilled in greed or in creating monopolies, you know. There’s another even spookier tale about Rockefeller’s investment in the German  pharmaceutical giant I. G. Farben, which helped put Hitler into power and used his concentration camps to experiment on the innocent with their hideous drugs.

     But that’s another story.

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