This story is concerning the well-known 1910 Flexner Report that laid the foundations of the trendy medical system, dubbed “Rockefeller medication.” Additionally it is concerning the fascinating dynamic that exists between the ego, the plight of a “respectable” scammer, and the trajectory of the world.
Who Was Flexner?
Abraham Flexner was born in 1866 in Louisville, Kentucky. He lived till 1959. For a number of years, he ran a school prep faculty in his residence city of Louisville. In 1908, Flexner revealed “The American Faculty: A Criticism,” a e-book criticizing American school schooling.
Because the official story has it, his e-book attracted the eye of the Carnegie Basis, and he was commissioned to write down a report on the state of medical schooling in America and Canada, which led to the creation of “science-based requirements” for medical schooling in America and a closure of a considerable amount of medical faculties, thus restructuring the medical market in America and on the earth.
Notably, his brother, Simon Flexner, whose medical schooling at Johns Hopkins Faculty of Medication he helped finance, was a medical researcher on the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Analysis (later renamed to “Rockefeller College”) and its first director, in addition to a private good friend and advisor of John D. Rockefeller. Abraham’s daughter Eleanor grew as much as grow to be a “pioneer of ladies’s research.”
His nephew, Louis Barkhouse Flexner (1902 – 1996), was a founding director of the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences on the College of Pennsylvania and a former editor of the Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences.
Talking of “respectable” sciences (and the unusual melting pot of evolutionary research, genetics, eugenics, and molecular biology), starting in 1904, the Carnegie Establishment (a privately-funded scientific analysis group based by Andrew Carnegie in 1902) “funded the Station for Experimental Evolution at Chilly Spring Harbor, Lengthy Island, that hosted the federally funded Eugenics File Workplace.
With the Carnegie’s monetary help, the ERO shortly grew to become an important middle for eugenics analysis in America.”
(However after all, all of the darkish overtones are all prior to now as a result of since then, the human nature has modified, and the highly effective folks of the world have lastly realized that it isn’t good to attempt to modify the human race — and left that behavior behind!) Phew.
Anyway, again to Flexner. Within the words of probably the most reliable authority on medical schooling in America, the American Affiliation of Medical Faculties (disinformation be dammed), Abraham Flexner, “typically known as the ‘father’ of contemporary medical schooling … was an schooling specialist who was commissioned by the Carnegie Basis for the Development of Educating to evaluate the state of medical schooling in america and Canada within the early a part of the twentieth century.
Flexner visited all 155 medical faculties present on the time and issued an in depth report in 1910 — Medical Education in the United States and Canada, also referred to as the Flexner report — that known as for main reforms to medical schooling, together with increased admissions requirements for college kids, adherence to the scientific methodology in analysis and apply, and oversight by state licensure boards.”
The Flexner report is a curious learn and a mirrored image of his subjective views on the world — the views of a loyal supporter and knowledgeable beneficiary of the pharmacological faculty of thought who carried an important mistrust of homeopathy, osteopathy, and so forth. Right here is my tongue-in-cheek abstract of the report:
- At present, there are too many medical doctors; most are working towards God is aware of what, and it is irritating as hell
- There are waaaay too many medical faculties; they’re all over in terms of admission requirements and academic methods
- Medical faculties are regrettably allowed to generate profits with out adhering to what I imagine to be right; it is unacceptable, and it must be modified
- Good medical schooling ought to be centered round labs, pharmacology, and fashionable strategies, versus numerous quackery, equivalent to homeopathy, osteopathy, electrotherapy, and so on.
- It’s acceptable to emphasise that I’m clearly certified to talk for the inhabitants of america, the civilized world at giant; and even for the African race; the assured tone of my report is proof sufficient!
Thus, Flexner proposed a complete restructuring of the American medical schooling, and he particularly talked about that the eradication of “dissidents” is a optimistic factor. He framed the necessity to restructure and standardize the medical schooling as a “public want” (with the Carnegie and Rockefeller pursuits being the implied guardians of the general public wants, no doubt).
Listed below are some quotes: On the advantages of ordinary schooling and the closing of colleges that do not match his view:
On pharmadynamics (the examine of biochemical and physiologic impact of medication) and … cocaine:
On the have to be precise (as a matter of wordplay, precision medication involves thoughts):
On medication because it pertains to race (the appallingly insulting nature of his phrases apart, he additionally had no thought about how wealthy and in-depth the standard African medical science was; a decent rational man and a Rockefeller ally had no want to consider that):
If we had been to summarize the report and say the quiet half out loud, lets say one thing like: “Let all of the issues that I do not perceive or management be gone — eventually — and let the medical discipline be formed after my views, with the monetary assist and to the monetary advantages of my mates! As a result of I’m clearly proper!”
On a aspect notice, Flexner’s contempt for “electrical” medication most likely contributed to the catastrophe of the electromagnetic air pollution that we’re experiencing immediately.
The Energy of Assured Prejudice: Flexner Report and Fashionable Medication
On account of the Report — that by the way completely served the monetary pursuits of the Rockefellers — new necessities had been launched, and a really giant variety of medical faculties needed to get out of the best way and shut down. The reform particularly impacted the faculties graduating predominantly African American medical doctors and the faculties educating what is thought immediately as “different medication.”
In keeping with Wikipedia, “Flexner clearly doubted the scientific validity of all types of medication aside from that primarily based on scientific analysis, deeming any strategy to medication that didn’t advocate using remedies equivalent to vaccines to forestall and remedy sickness as tantamount to quackery and charlatanism.
Medical faculties that provided coaching in numerous disciplines together with electromagnetic discipline remedy, phototherapy, eclectic medication, physiomedicalism, naturopathy, and homeopathy, had been instructed both to drop these programs from their curriculum or lose their accreditation and underwriting help. Just a few faculties resisted for a time, however finally most complied with the Report or shut their doorways.”
Within the spirit of eliminating competitors, the fields of holistic medication that had been beforehand thought to be “regular” in society, grew to become artificially discredited — which cleared the markets for the Rockefeller pursuits by the promotion of oil-derived drugs and Rockefeller education-shaped medical doctors who felt that they had been “smarter” than the so known as “quacks” as a result of their professors instructed them so.
This is your market restructuring at work — because it dances to the beat of emotional poverty, good intentions, dangerous intentions, ignorance, a missionary itch, a really assured tone, and monetary controls!
Myopic Views Mixed With Confidence Are Hassle
Whereas ideas equivalent to knowledge, humility, and depth, might sound lofty, they matter to us in sensible phrases. Why? They matter as a result of in precept, there may be nothing incorrect with working towards “high quality management,” particularly in terms of medication — however it drastically depends upon who controls the standard, how, and why — and it issues whether or not they come from a spot of knowledge or from a missionary itch!
As an example, Flexner was enthusiastic about pharmacology and labs. Fantastic! If he approached his pleasure in a balanced manner (and, oh, if he weren’t employed particularly to assist restructure the markets and assist create “Rockefeller medication”), he may have mentioned one thing like, “Hey, I actually like this pharmacology factor. Let’s please attempt to add it to the combination and see the way it goes.”
However no! The thoughts of a missionary shouldn’t be at peace so long as different, competing views are allowed to be. The missionary tosses and turns all night time till all different views are gone. And so far as I’m involved, for sensible functions, it does not matter if the missionary sincerely believes that his concepts are one of the best factor since sliced bread for humanity — or whether or not he’s plotting to kill all life on Earth. Existentially, sure, it does matter — however for all sensible functions, it sucks both manner!
A Rip-off, Maybe?
There are alternative ways to take a look at the highly effective folks wrecking our lives. A technique is to be intimidated and disgusted, to be shaken to the core by the sheer scale of the destruction they’re inflicting, and to really feel abused and wronged. A legitimate and comprehensible response, no doubt!
However we are able to additionally — whereas permitting ourselves to acknowledge and grieve the abuse and pray for therapeutic — refuse to be afraid of the abusers and ask ourselves: What if these guys are all however glorified scammers? Rich scammers, merciless scammers — sure — however scammers none the much less? Trivial scammers with some huge cash? Trivial scammers with loads of entry to the metaphorical fog machines? What if they’re that? Let’s look.
John D. Rockefeller’s Father Was a Infamous Skilled Scammer
The daddy of the well-known oil monopolist, John D. Rockefeller (born in 1839), William Rockefeller, was a literal snake oil salesman. This is from the reliable and non-conspiratorial Wikipedia:
“William Avery ‘Satan Invoice’ Rockefeller Sr. (November 13, 1810 – Might 11, 1906) was an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con-artist who glided by the alias of Dr. William Levingston. He labored as a lumberman after which a touring salesman who recognized himself as a “botanic doctor” and offered elixirs.
He was identified to purchase and promote horses, and was additionally identified at one level to have purchased a barge-load of salt in Syracuse. Land hypothesis was one other kind of his enterprise, and the promoting of elixirs served to maintain him with money and aided in his scouting of land offers. He loaned cash to farmers at twelve %, however tried to lend to farmers who couldn’t pay in order to foreclose and take the farms.”
Per Wikipedia, he was indicted on rape prices, after which he left his first spouse allegedly penniless with six youngsters and married one other lady in Canada, utilizing a special title, whereas being nonetheless married to his first spouse — however not earlier than he fathered two youngsters with a lady who he was keen on earlier than his marriage to his first spouse however whom he did not marry as a result of she was poorer than his first spouse. Right here is an attention-grabbing James Corbett episode on John D. Rockefeller’s father.
The Rise of John D. Rockefeller: A Very Fast Abstract
This matter of John D. Rockefeller’s rise is countless, and for the sake of this text, I’m solely offering a short overview, for context. One is left to surprise if his habits developed a minimum of partially in response to the trauma of his dad’s betrayal. Did he really feel wronged and humiliated? Was he compensating for his humiliation by changing into on probably the most influential folks on the earth? Possibly, perhaps not, we’ll by no means know.
As rumor has it, his mom, as a consequence of relative poverty, taught him to be extraordinarily thrifty. Allegedly, as a child, John D. Rockefeller offered goodies to his classmates, saved cash to later lend it with curiosity, and so on. He was at all times “critical” and barely smiled.
As an grownup, John d. Rockefeller was identified for his ruthless elimination of competitors and his excessive obsession with price slicing. His first job, at 16, was of a bookkeeper. From there, he grew to become a profitable normal service provider. Then in 1863, he constructed his first oil refinery in Ohio, and finally, by notoriously ruthless practices, he got here on high of all his competitors.
“To crush his rivals, Rockefeller would create a scarcity of the railroad tank automobiles that transported oil. He’d then purchase up all of the barrels in the marketplace so his rivals would don’t have any place to retailer or ship their oil. He purchased up all of the out there chemical compounds that had been essential to refine oil.” He was additionally identified for his “rebates.”
By 1882, his Normal Oil had a close to monopoly on the oil enterprise in america. In keeping with history.com, “In 1890, the U.S. Congress handed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the primary federal laws prohibiting trusts and combos that restrained commerce. Two years later, the Ohio Supreme Courtroom dissolved the Normal Oil Belief; nevertheless, the companies throughout the belief quickly grew to become a part of Normal Oil of New Jersey, which functioned as a holding firm.
In 1911, after years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom dominated Normal Oil of New Jersey was in violation of anti-trust legal guidelines and compelled it to dismantle (it was damaged up into greater than 30 particular person firms).”
On the time of the breakup. Rockefeller held over 25% of Normal’s inventory (per Wikipedia). He and all the different stockholders acquired proportionate shares in every of the 34 firms. Over the subsequent 10 years the breakup proved immensely worthwhile for him. The businesses’ mixed internet price rose fivefold and Rockefeller’s private wealth jumped to $900 million.”
Additionally per Wikipedia, “some of the efficient assaults on Rockefeller and his agency was the 1904 publication of The Historical past of the Normal Oil Firm, by Ida Tarbell” [the daughter of Franklin Summer Tarbell, whose company went out of business due to Rockefeller’s ruthless choking of competition’]. “She documented the corporate’s espionage, value wars, heavy-handed advertising and marketing techniques, and courtroom evasions.”
Apparently, the publication occurred across the similar time when Rockefeller began actually specializing in “philanthropy,” which isn’t dissimilar how Invoice Gates grew to become captivated with philanthropy after his antitrust troubles. Each transformations of a monopolist right into a philanthropist magically supported the aim of securing much more management of the markets in addition to psychological management, disguised as investing in schooling, medication, and so forth.
Civilization, Roads, and Progress? Ache and Destruction?
It’s attention-grabbing how there are polar reverse methods to view “technological progress” of the previous century and a half, together with the beginning of “Rockefeller medication.” It’s virtually as if there are two worlds! In a single world, the largely imaginary world, described within the phrases by the “winners,” the plot is clear and wonderful.
Here’s a new scientific triumph, a brand new invention, a brand new environment friendly factor that permits an important development in cleanliness, and luxury! And here’s a hard-working man — maybe a bit of eccentric and never with out flaws — however , hard-working man none the much less, who by his selfless work and admirable dedication manages to convey new goodness to our lives. A task mannequin! A win-win! Yay, progress! Yay, public well being! Yay, yay!
In the actual world although, the hard-working man tends to be emotionally tousled — and progress is constructed on a considerable amount of blood and orphans’ tears.
Within the case of Rockefeller’s empire, oil improvement, very similar to each different methodology of contemporary power manufacturing, outdated or new, could be very damaging. Oil websites go away the land lifeless and devastated, spills are murderous, burning oil produces toxins, and so on. and so on. And naturally, the monopolistic “Rockefeller medication,” making a lot use of oil merchandise, shouldn’t be explicit medicinal total, evaluating to many different modalities of medication, that it tries to kill.
And, if we have a look at the existential side of all the factor, we’ll see that on the very onset of the economic revolution, believing in its absolute superiority and goodness required one to have an vital a part of one’s sensory notion “burned out.” Both that, or the industrialists and the financiers simply sincerely did not care what occurs to the world as soon as their earnings are made and multiplied.
On a tangent, here’s a video that exhibits the visuals of barren land — with an added allusion (not meant by the makers of the video) to the competitors that John D. Rockefeller had with Baku Oil, and the following rumored ties between the Rockefeller pursuits and Bolshevik Russia (per historian Anthony Sutton, not referred to within the video).
The Thoughts of a “Disruptor”
The place does the psychological kind of a “disruptor” come from? After I take into consideration the proud “disruptor,” I think about a toddler who’s born right into a world that lacks a significant connection to nature — a world that focuses on ego and mechanical issues.
There’s something concerning the metaphorical thoughts of a person who appears at nature and sees largely earnings, or who appears at outdated (“indigenous”) information and sees … properly … one thing to snort at, like a impolite youngster … who has no understanding of nature and no connection to nature, and who shouldn’t be taken with growing depth as a result of he’s doing simply wonderful with out — for now a minimum of. He simply by no means develops the senses to really feel what it is prefer to be a toddler, in awe, beloved by the universe!
If I had been to create a phrase for this type of a mindset, my phrase can be “soulhole” an individual with a gap in his soul. He’s starved emotionally and in denial of hunger. He’s troubled, his spirit is screaming for respect however he does not admit to it, and his starvation in insatiable.
And — fortunate us — folks with this mindset are presently answerable for the reform we are dealing with today!
Rockefeller Medication and COVID
Right this moment, we stay in a world the place the “Rockefeller medication” is displaying its tooth. We stay in a world the place medical boards, largely formed by the Flexner Report, are suspending doctors’ licenses for daring go in opposition to the institution lies.
Following within the footsteps of John D. Rockefeller, the self-appointed house owners of the whole lot on Earth try to seize much more energy and to destroy all remaining competitors — in all industries — for good, concentrating the whole lot, from meals to medication to schooling to finance, in their very own arms.
Issues are so absurd that it appears like we must always be capable to simply pinch ourselves — and the dream will finish. However alas, this isn’t a dream. We now have any challenges forward — however I pray that each one of us, together with the poor damaging soulhole, are healed, in order that we are able to lastly stay in peace. It has been too lengthy.
Concerning the Creator
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