Since you're exploring some history of medicine and Big Pharma you may find this newspaper clipping from 1913, a decade before the JAMA piece interesting. It's about a play presenting the subject of eugenics to a Very Important Person audience. That included the president of the American Medical Association at the time, Abraham Jacobl, and the president of the oldest pharmaceutical company in the US at the time, William Jay Schleffilin among its VIP guests. And other names that you've no doubt heard of.
And then you understand that the practice of allopathic medicine and Big Pharma have been joined in the shared pursuit of eugenics for the human race, like cattle and chickens bred for the most lucrative genetic traits, for over a century.
A New York Times story from 1913. With many familiar names and characters from history, who's subsequent work in many fields, primarily medicine, banking, propaganda, industry, clergy, politics and academia are bound together by their underlying core belief in and support of eugenics.
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It's a story about a play that develops notions of eugenics, social control by elites needing to protect their gene pools. It introduces germ theory as it was first coming into vogue
It describes a play that was shown to the powerful and connected, "Damaged Goods." Prominent attendees who also just so happened to be eugenicists. About men of high society who sleep around with prostitutes and lesser women, bringing back disease like syphilis to families, deforming children, etc. It uses the term "White Slavery" to describe the sex trade. It advances the idea of infectious disease as it was still a relatively novel understanding of them at the time.
The article describes attendees from the American Society of Medical Sociology, an organization and movement that you'll discover is in concert with "Marxist conflict theory," that medical sociologists adhere to which explains hows how the ruling classes can assert their power through medicine. I discovered that tidbit when looking up the term after I first learned of it in this NYT article.
The names listed as invitees and on the hosting committee are a veritable who's who of the early 20th century. Including:
- John D. Rockefeller, father of allopathic western medicine, based in petrochemicals, products of his Standard Oil.
- Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda, advertising, marketing. And who popularized the term "quacks" to describe natural healers like homeopaths, while helping allopathic medicine educational and practice secure monopolies by outlawing and replacing natural healing, substituting petrochemical-based allopathy as the business model for health care.
- Simon and Abraham Flexner, who's Flexner Report was the notorious #FakeScience used to outlaw natural healers for Rockefeller's petrochemical business model of medicine.
- State Senator Franklin D. Roosevelt. And future President of the US.
A network of prominent socialists, communists with ties to Karl Marx, names like:
- William Jay Schleffilin, descendant of the first Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Jay, ran the oldest pharmaceutical company in the US, was in business at the nation's founding. Was VP of the American Pharmaceutical Association.
And a great many more names that when you search out you'll find were leaders across many industries and disciplines, all aligned with socialism/humanism values. And all eugenicists. Most of the other names listed as invited are easily located in internet searches, no doubt they left their mark on our society today.
Victor Brack, the top doctor in Hitler's Germany was famous for his quote, "the needle belongs in the hand of the doctor" to describe the German eugenics program that murdered millions of "undesirable" humans:
Whether or not most doctors practicing today understand this to be the true origins and agenda of medicine and pharma, it remains the agenda of leaders of the practice as much in 2024 as it did in 1924, or 1913. The needle and/or pill remains in the hands of the doctors. By needle/pill Brack meant method of mass murder. For "a greater good" you know. Eugenics is practiced for a "greater good" - that serves the blue bloods and powerful, that is. It's a big club, but most of us aren't in it, as George Carlin said.
Doctors who don't intend to be mass murderers need to wake up to that uncomfortable truth. Maybe get into the practice of alternative healing systems that actually save lives, once they overcome their programmed "quack medicine" bigotry they were trained in medical school to believe about natural healers.
Very topical. On my waiting lists of podcasts to listen to is the Brett Weinstein Darkhouse whose topic is polio !
Thank you, Robyn. You always give me so much to think about and I appreciate it.
Since you're exploring some history of medicine and Big Pharma you may find this newspaper clipping from 1913, a decade before the JAMA piece interesting. It's about a play presenting the subject of eugenics to a Very Important Person audience. That included the president of the American Medical Association at the time, Abraham Jacobl, and the president of the oldest pharmaceutical company in the US at the time, William Jay Schleffilin among its VIP guests. And other names that you've no doubt heard of.
And then you understand that the practice of allopathic medicine and Big Pharma have been joined in the shared pursuit of eugenics for the human race, like cattle and chickens bred for the most lucrative genetic traits, for over a century.
A New York Times story from 1913. With many familiar names and characters from history, who's subsequent work in many fields, primarily medicine, banking, propaganda, industry, clergy, politics and academia are bound together by their underlying core belief in and support of eugenics.
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Social Workers Approve
The New York Times, page 13, February 23, 1913
https://www.newspapers.com/article/31090629/edward_l_bernays_medical_review_of/
It's a story about a play that develops notions of eugenics, social control by elites needing to protect their gene pools. It introduces germ theory as it was first coming into vogue
It describes a play that was shown to the powerful and connected, "Damaged Goods." Prominent attendees who also just so happened to be eugenicists. About men of high society who sleep around with prostitutes and lesser women, bringing back disease like syphilis to families, deforming children, etc. It uses the term "White Slavery" to describe the sex trade. It advances the idea of infectious disease as it was still a relatively novel understanding of them at the time.
The article describes attendees from the American Society of Medical Sociology, an organization and movement that you'll discover is in concert with "Marxist conflict theory," that medical sociologists adhere to which explains hows how the ruling classes can assert their power through medicine. I discovered that tidbit when looking up the term after I first learned of it in this NYT article.
The names listed as invitees and on the hosting committee are a veritable who's who of the early 20th century. Including:
- John D. Rockefeller, father of allopathic western medicine, based in petrochemicals, products of his Standard Oil.
- Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda, advertising, marketing. And who popularized the term "quacks" to describe natural healers like homeopaths, while helping allopathic medicine educational and practice secure monopolies by outlawing and replacing natural healing, substituting petrochemical-based allopathy as the business model for health care.
- Simon and Abraham Flexner, who's Flexner Report was the notorious #FakeScience used to outlaw natural healers for Rockefeller's petrochemical business model of medicine.
- State Senator Franklin D. Roosevelt. And future President of the US.
A network of prominent socialists, communists with ties to Karl Marx, names like:
- William Jay Schleffilin, descendant of the first Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Jay, ran the oldest pharmaceutical company in the US, was in business at the nation's founding. Was VP of the American Pharmaceutical Association.
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fjps.3080161113
- Abraham Jacobl, the first leading pediatrician, president of the American Medical Association. And a leading eugenicist:
https://stanforddaily.com/2019/11/18/eugenics-on-the-farm-ray-lyman-wilbur/
And a great many more names that when you search out you'll find were leaders across many industries and disciplines, all aligned with socialism/humanism values. And all eugenicists. Most of the other names listed as invited are easily located in internet searches, no doubt they left their mark on our society today.
Victor Brack, the top doctor in Hitler's Germany was famous for his quote, "the needle belongs in the hand of the doctor" to describe the German eugenics program that murdered millions of "undesirable" humans:
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7019
Whether or not most doctors practicing today understand this to be the true origins and agenda of medicine and pharma, it remains the agenda of leaders of the practice as much in 2024 as it did in 1924, or 1913. The needle and/or pill remains in the hands of the doctors. By needle/pill Brack meant method of mass murder. For "a greater good" you know. Eugenics is practiced for a "greater good" - that serves the blue bloods and powerful, that is. It's a big club, but most of us aren't in it, as George Carlin said.
Doctors who don't intend to be mass murderers need to wake up to that uncomfortable truth. Maybe get into the practice of alternative healing systems that actually save lives, once they overcome their programmed "quack medicine" bigotry they were trained in medical school to believe about natural healers.