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Betsy's avatar

It is beyond ironic that JD Rockefeller's father was an actual "snake-oil salesman," not like the ones whose product actually had some benefit, but completely fulfilling the shady and sleazy connotation of that phrase. For JD to turn his type of oil into "medicines" that promise what they don't deliver and sell them using emotional manipulation (just like his daddy)--and to use the fortune that oil got for him to drive out all the traditional and effective medical modalities so his snake oil could take over the field and be viewed by the majority as the highest evolution of medicine for more than a century, becoming the massive economic engine that it is today despite the carnage left in its wake--it's the kind of thing of which we say, "you can't make this sh-- up." The irony, and the fraud, are breathtaking.

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Brilliant article thank you

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