The story of how modern medicine was shaped isn’t just about scientific progress-it’s about power, money, and control. When Rockefeller threatened to cut off all funding to medical schools unless they abandoned herbal remedies, natural healing, and holistic practices, it wasn’t because those methods didn’t work. It was because they couldn’t be patented, monetized, or turned into billion-dollar pharmaceutical empires. He pushed petroleum-based “medicine,” creating a dependency on synthetic drugs

How Rockefeller Redefined Medicine: The Rise of Big Pharma and the Fall of Holistic Healing