It is worse than that. John D's father did not trade under the Rockefeller name but he sold "panaceas" made from, I believe, water and rock oil. When the town he was in realised they were being conned the family moved on to sell their "snake oil" in the next town.
Much later, John D realised that he could make pharmaceuticals from his oil to make substances that affect the human mind, body and nervous system. He later bought into IG Farben - the Nazi pharma giant. He sponsored text books and medical schools with the idea of promoting his drugs and rubbishing all other methods of curing people.
It was almost as if the wheel had turned full circle and he was selling snake oil again but this time with enough money to make it happen on a huge scale.
And now we have vaccines being sold by companies that have paid the biggest corporate fines ever and that have sold knowingly carcinogenic baby powder. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
It is worse than that. John D's father did not trade under the Rockefeller name but he sold "panaceas" made from, I believe, water and rock oil. When the town he was in realised they were being conned the family moved on to sell their "snake oil" in the next town.
Much later, John D realised that he could make pharmaceuticals from his oil to make substances that affect the human mind, body and nervous system. He later bought into IG Farben - the Nazi pharma giant. He sponsored text books and medical schools with the idea of promoting his drugs and rubbishing all other methods of curing people.
It was almost as if the wheel had turned full circle and he was selling snake oil again but this time with enough money to make it happen on a huge scale.
And now we have vaccines being sold by companies that have paid the biggest corporate fines ever and that have sold knowingly carcinogenic baby powder. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.