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Chris Kanthan<\/p>\n
People these days look at you like a weirdo if you talk about the healing properties of plants or any other holistic practices. Much like anything else, there is a lot of politics and money behind our modern medical system.<\/p>\n
It all starts with John D. Rockefeller (1839 \u2013 1937) who was an oil magnate, a robber baron, America\u2019s first billionaire, and a natural-born monopolist.<\/p>\n
By the turn of the 20th century, he controlled 90% of all oil refineries in the U.S. through his oil company, Standard Oil, which was later on broken up to become Chevron, Exxon, Mobil etc.<\/p>\n At the same time, around 1900, scientists discovered \u201cpetrochemicals\u201d and the ability to create all kinds of chemicals from oil. For example, the first plastic \u2014 called\u00a0Bakelite<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 was made from oil in 1907. Scientists were also discovering various vitamins and guessed that many pharmaceutical drugs could be made from oil.<\/p>\n This was a wonderful opportunity for Rockefeller who saw the ability to monopolize the oil, chemical and the medical industries at the same time!<\/em><\/p>\n The best thing about petrochemicals was that everything could be patented and sold for high profits.<\/p>\n But there was one problem with Rockefeller\u2019s plan for the medical industry: natural\/herbal medicines were very popular in America at that time. Almost half the doctors and medical colleges in the U.S. were practicing holistic medicine, using knowledge from Europe and Native Americans.<\/p>\n Rockefeller, the monopolist, had to figure out a way to get rid of his biggest competition. So he used the classic strategy of \u201cproblem-reaction-solution.\u201d That is, create a problem and scare people, and then offer a (pre-planned) solution. (Similar to terrorism scare, followed by\u00a0the \u201cPatriot Act\u201d).<\/p>\n He went to his buddy Andrew Carnegie \u2013 another plutocrat who made his money from\u00a0monopolizing the steel industry<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who devised a scheme. From the prestigious Carnegie Foundation, they sent a man named Abraham Flexner to travel around the country and report on the status of medical colleges and hospitals around the country.<\/p>\n This led to the\u00a0Flexner Report<\/a>, which gave birth to the modern medicine as we know it.<\/p>\n Needless to say, the report talked about the need for revamping and centralizing our medical institutions. Based on this report, more than half of all medical colleges were soon closed.<\/p>\n Homeopathy and natural medicines were mocked and\u00a0demonized; and doctors were even jailed.<\/p>\n To help with the transition and to change the minds of other doctors and scientists, Rockefeller gave more than $100 million to colleges and hospitals, and founded a philanthropic front group called \u201cGeneral Education Board\u201d (GEB). This is the classic carrot and stick approach.<\/p>\n In a very short time, medical colleges were all streamlined and homogenized. All the students were learning the same thing, and medicine was all about using patented drugs.<\/p>\n Scientists received huge grants to study how plants cured diseases, but their goal was to first identify which chemicals in the plant were effective, and then recreate a similar chemical \u2013but not identical \u2014 in the lab that could be patented.<\/p>\n A pill for an ill became the mantra for modern medicine.<\/p>\n And you thought Koch brothers were evil?<\/p>\n So, now we are, 100 years later, churning out doctors who know nothing about the benefits of nutrition or herbs or any holistic practices. We have an entire society that is enslaved to corporations for its well-being.<\/p>\n America spends 15% of its GDP on healthcare, which should be really called \u201csick care.\u201d It is focused\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0on cure, but only on\u00a0symptoms<\/em>, thus creating repeat customers. There is no cure for cancer, diabetes, autism, asthma, or even flu.<\/p>\n Why would there be real cures? This is a system founded by oligarchs and plutocrats, not by doctors.<\/p>\n![\"Rockefeller](\"https:\/\/truthandsatire.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/rockefeller-standard-oil.jpg\")
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