@GuntherEagleman Luke 17:20-21 (KJV) And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Rockefeller bought American medicine using the same method he used on oil, and the first thing he took off the syllabus was food.
The method never varied in forty years. Do not fight a rival. Buy the thing the rival cannot operate without. He did it to the refineries, then the pipelines, then the railways that carried the barrels, and in 1911 the Supreme Court broke Standard Oil into thirty four pieces for it. By then he had already turned the same instinct on medicine, where nobody was watching and there was no antitrust law to break.
He did not need to own a hospital. He needed to own the thing every medical school could not operate without, which was funding.
The pretext arrived in 1910. The Carnegie Foundation published Bulletin Number Four, written by Abraham Flexner, a schoolmaster from Louisville with a classics degree and no medical training whatsoever. Flexner toured the country by train and buggy, inspected every institution claiming to train doctors, and condemned most of them.
A report is a piece of paper until somebody wealthy agrees with it.
Rockefeller's General Education Board aimed its money at the schools Flexner had approved and starved the ones he had not. Then, in 1913, the Rockefeller Foundation put Flexner in charge of that money. The author of the survey now held the chequebook deciding which of the condemned survived, and he spent the next sixteen years spending it.
America had roughly 160 medical schools in 1900. By 1935 it had 66.
The homeopathic and eclectic colleges went almost entirely. So did five of the seven Black medical schools in the country, leaving Howard and Meharry, because Flexner had written that Black doctors ought to be trained in sanitation rather than surgery. Not one of those closures was decided by a doctor. They were decided by a man who never studied medicine, holding money earned selling kerosene.
What survived was rebuilt around the laboratory bench, and the bench delivered. Antibiotics, anaesthesia, surgery that works. Nobody sensible wants that undone.
The damage was done to everything the bench could not hold. Rockefeller money did not arrive as a cheque in a drawer, it arrived as a building, a chair, a department and a research programme, and a subject that attracts no endowment gets whatever hours are left at the end of the timetable. Food attracted nothing. It cannot be patented, bottled, or sold to the same person twice.
So food left with the herbalists, and it never came back.
American medical students today receive around nineteen hours of nutrition teaching across four years. Under one percent of their lecture time. Some schools provide none at all, and the average has been falling since 2004.
Nineteen hours, and then a career of seven-minute appointments in a country where metabolic disease sits upstream of almost everything that kills people.
Your doctor is not corrupt and he is not lazy. He is holding a syllabus drawn up by a schoolmaster with a classics degree and paid for by an oil baron, and it has one move in it. Find the abnormal number. Prescribe the compound that shifts it. Review in six months.
He can tell you precisely which enzyme a statin inhibits. He spent less than a single working day, in total, on what you should put on a plate.
So when you tell him you would rather fix this with your diet, and he gives you that look, he is not dismissing you.
He is telling you what he was taught, by people who were paid to teach it.
@StateDept The administrative law courts need to have lawful judges and trials by jury handling them.
People are being trafficked for profit in family and probate courts!