A Deep Dive into James Corbett’s Exposé of the Roots of Modern Medicine
“The goal is not to heal. The goal is to create a customer.” — Paraphrasing the Medical Industrial Complex mindset
Modern medicine, hailed as a triumph of scientific progress, may not be the impartial and benevolent enterprise we are taught to believe. In James Corbett’s meticulous documentary, How Big Oil Conquered the World, a shocking narrative unfolds — one in which oil magnates, namely the Rockefeller family, used their wealth to colonize medicine, not out of charity, but to reshape it in the image of their industrial empire. This is the story of how petrochemical interests overtook healing traditions, natural remedies, and even medical education itself — with consequences we still live with today.
From Oil Barons to Social Engineers: The Birth of the Rockefeller Influence
John D. Rockefeller Sr., founder of Standard Oil, built the most powerful monopoly in American history. But after anti-trust legislation dismantled his empire, he pivoted. Not out of repentance — but strategy. By presenting himself as a philanthropist, Rockefeller cleansed his public image and began wielding power in far subtler, far-reaching ways. Medicine would be one of his most critical targets.
The Trojan Horse: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Hidden Agenda
The creation of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913 was hailed as a turning point in global philanthropy. But behind its generous façade, it operated as a social engineering tool. James Corbett explains how the Foundation’s funding steered institutions toward a particular worldview — one that prioritized industrial, centralized, and profit-oriented models. Medicine would be shaped to serve these ends.
The Flexner Report: The Pharmaceutical Coup in Disguise
In 1910, Abraham Flexner, backed by the Carnegie Foundation (which had aligned with Rockefeller interests), published a report that would redefine American medical education. It portrayed traditional medical practices — herbalism, homeopathy, chiropractic, and midwifery — as outdated or “unscientific.” Medical schools that did not conform to the new allopathic (drug-based) model were defunded and shut down. The effect was a pharmaceutical coup, enforced under the guise of “science.”
Education as Indoctrination: Building a New Medical Paradigm
Once the allopathic model was established, the Rockefeller Foundation began pouring funds into universities and medical schools — but only if they agreed to teach a strictly pharmaceutical-based curriculum. This wasn’t support; it was conditioning. Future doctors would no longer be trained to look for root causes or holistic solutions — they would be trained to prescribe drugs.
Petrochemicals and Pills: Turning Oil Into Medicine
Here lies the crux of the Rockefeller scheme. Having built Standard Oil into a global giant, the Rockefellers turned to petrochemical pharmaceuticals. These synthetic drugs were created using petroleum byproducts — and they could be patented. Thus, the family converted its oil empire into a healthcare empire, monopolizing not only the supply chain but the very concept of medicine.
Capturing the Gatekeeper: The American Medical Association (AMA)
The Rockefeller empire aligned itself with the AMA, offering financial support and political legitimacy in exchange for control over what counted as “real” medicine. The AMA became the enforcer of orthodoxy, silencing dissent, discrediting natural approaches, and further entrenching the pharmaceutical worldview.
Silencing the Competition: The War on Holistic Healing
As the Flexner framework spread, traditional healers were pushed out of the mainstream. Insurance companies wouldn’t cover naturopaths or herbalists. State boards discredited alternative clinics. The Rockefeller system made sure that only chemical-based, patentable treatments survived — and that natural healing methods were ridiculed or criminalized.
Redefining Public Health: From Prevention to Products
Once public health became part of the Rockefeller wheelhouse, its goals changed. No longer was it about improving sanitation, clean water, or nutrition. Instead, “health” meant vaccines, medications, and medical intervention — all designed, of course, by the same pharmaceutical interests funding the narrative.
Global Conquest: Exporting the Model Worldwide
With their system entrenched in the U.S., the Rockefeller Foundation and allied groups like the World Bank and World Health Organization exported their model globally. Nations received funding and aid only if they adopted Western-style, pharma-driven healthcare systems. Indigenous and cultural medicine was erased in the process.
Controlling the Narrative: Medical Science for Sale
“Evidence-based medicine” became the new gold standard — but that evidence was bought and paid for. Rockefeller money funded research labs, journals, and universities, ensuring that only drug-based treatments were researched, published, and promoted. Corbett reveals how medical truth became indistinguishable from corporate interest.
Censorship and Control: Discrediting Dissent
Doctors and scientists who questioned the drug-centric model faced career-ending backlash. Through media influence, institutional pressure, and funding blacklists, dissent was silenced. Today’s censorship of holistic and natural treatments — especially during COVID — is just the modern version of the same Rockefeller playbook.
The Chronic Disease Economy: Creating Lifelong Customers
The modern medical model is not built to heal. It is designed to manage — indefinitely. By focusing on symptoms rather than causes, and by ignoring nutrition, toxicity, and lifestyle, the system ensures that patients become lifelong users of drugs. What better business model could exist?
Financialization of Health: Medicine Becomes a Market
Corbett documents how the healthcare system became a financialized beast. Hospitals operate like corporations. Insurance companies, Big Pharma, and biotech firms serve shareholders, not patients. Patents matter more than cures. Health is no longer sacred — it’s a market sector.
Controlling the Media and Academia
To maintain its illusion of legitimacy, the Rockefeller apparatus funded journalism schools, medical textbooks, and scientific conferences. This ensured that both public discourse and professional development aligned with corporate interests. Critics weren’t just outnumbered — they were systematically erased.
The Dark Genius of Philanthropy as Strategy
Rockefeller’s innovation wasn’t just funding medicine — it was doing so under the banner of philanthropy. This tax-free, public-relations-friendly mechanism allowed him to shape the future of civilization without ever running for office. His legacy lives on not in hospitals, but in the very paradigm that governs health today.
A Captured System and the Way Forward
James Corbett’s core thesis is hauntingly clear: modern medicine is not broken — it was built this way. The capture of medicine by industrialists was not an accident but a design. The first step toward liberation is recognizing the system for what it is: a monopolized, profit-driven complex that suppresses healing in favor of control.
Conclusion: Reclaiming the Sacred Art of Healing
It’s time to revisit what medicine should be: a journey toward balance, wellness, and wholeness — not a treadmill of lifelong drug dependency. As more people awaken to the limits and manipulations of the modern medical regime, a renaissance of natural healing, decentralization, and patient empowerment may finally be on the horizon.
But only if we’re willing to see through the illusion — and, like Corbett, follow the money.
POINT-BY-POINT ANALYSIS
The Medical Monopoly: How Rockefeller Hijacked Health for Profit
1. The Rockefeller Origins: Oil to Philanthropy
- Key Player: John D. Rockefeller Sr., Standard Oil
- Analysis: After amassing massive wealth through monopolistic oil practices, Rockefeller turned to “philanthropy” as a PR and control mechanism. This would not only whitewash his legacy but create avenues of influence over key sectors like education, science, and medicine.
2. The Rockefeller Foundation as a Trojan Horse
- Entity: Rockefeller Foundation (est. 1913)
- Function: Claimed to be philanthropic, but strategically funded institutions and systems to serve corporate-industrial interests.
- Corbett’s Take: The Foundation was used to reshape public institutions, including the medical system, into tools of centralized power and profit.
3. The Flexner Report (1910): The “Scientific” Coup
- Commissioned by: Carnegie Foundation (allied with Rockefeller)
- Authored by: Abraham Flexner
- Impact:
- Delegitimized homeopathy, naturopathy, and traditional forms of healing.
- Set the stage for “scientific medicine” rooted in pharmaceutical drugs and laboratory research.
- Result: Medical schools were shut down unless they complied with the new chemical-drug paradigm.
4. Monopolizing Medical Education
- Strategy:
- Rockefeller funding was contingent on schools adopting allopathic, pharmaceutical-based curricula.
- Created a pipeline of doctors trained exclusively in drug-based interventions.
- Outcome: Entire generations of doctors were trained to see health through the lens of pharmaceutical symptom management, not root-cause healing.
5. Pharmaceuticals and Petrochemicals: Same Source
- Key Insight: Rockefeller’s oil empire wasn’t just about energy — it created the basis for the modern pharmaceutical industry.
- Fact: Most synthetic drugs are petrochemical derivatives.
- Analysis: The Rockefellers essentially turned crude oil into medicine, commodifying health and turning patients into lifelong consumers.
6. Controlling the American Medical Association (AMA)
- Tactic: Funding and aligning with the AMA to enforce pharmaceutical orthodoxy.
- Effect: The AMA became the gatekeeper of “legitimate” medicine, discrediting any practice outside the drug model.
- Consequence: Medical innovation and traditional healing were suppressed in favor of profit-driven, patentable interventions.
7. Dismantling Natural and Holistic Healing
- Targets: Herbal medicine, chiropractic, midwifery, Eastern medicine, etc.
- Tactic: Label them “quackery” and deny insurance coverage.
- Rockefeller’s Role: Redirecting public funding, university programs, and medical accreditation away from natural health, thus eroding centuries-old systems of healing.
8. Redefining Public Health
- Shift: From a focus on nutrition, sanitation, and lifestyle to vaccination and medication.
- Influence: WHO, CDC, and other global health bodies eventually influenced or funded by Rockefeller-backed NGOs.
- Result: Preventive public health became secondary to pharmaceutical interventionism.
9. Global Expansion of the Model
- Exported via: World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation, and UN agencies
- Tactic: Funding “health” initiatives in poor countries — only if they promoted vaccination and drug regimens.
- Outcome: Global dominance of Western pharmaceutical medicine over local and indigenous practices.
10. Medical “Science” for Sale
- Observation: Rockefeller money deeply shaped what gets researched.
- Example: Medical journals, universities, and studies prioritize drug-related research over holistic healing.
- Result: Medical science became a for-profit enterprise, where truth is secondary to funding sources.
11. Censorship and Propaganda
- Strategy:
- Paint dissenting voices as “unscientific.”
- Use media and academia (often funded by Rockefeller/Big Pharma) to control the narrative.
- Modern Parallel: Today’s censorship of alternative views on COVID, vaccines, and holistic healing follows this exact blueprint.
12. Legacy: A Sicker, Dependent Population
- Corbett’s Warning: Health has become a system of chronic dependency, not healing.
- Symptoms Treated: But the root causes — toxicity, poor nutrition, stress — are ignored.
- System Outcome: Lifelong customers for the pharmaceutical industry = massive corporate profits.
13. Financialization of Health
- Entities: Insurance companies, Big Pharma, hospitals, biotech
- Effect: Healthcare is no longer about patients, but about quarterly earnings, patents, and lobbying power.
- Insight: The same financial elite (Rockefeller-type families) that profited from oil now profit from sickness.
14. Media, Foundations, and Influence Networks
- Tactic: Use media grants and education endowments to shape public opinion and medical norms.
- Example: Rockefeller Foundation donations to journalism schools, NPR, and health content producers.
- Result: Public discourse is framed around corporate-friendly narratives, with dissent framed as misinformation.
15. Weaponizing “Philanthropy”
- Key Insight: Philanthropy is not charity — it’s strategic influence with tax-free status.
- Corbett’s Take: The Foundation model allows oligarchs to direct society without democratic input.
- Real-World Result: One family reshaped global health without a single vote.
16. Conclusion: From Oil Barons to Health Overlords
- James Corbett’s Thesis: The Rockefeller cartel used its oil money to capture the soul of medicine.
- Why It Matters: The true purpose of medicine was corrupted — from healing to managing symptoms for profit.
- Call to Action: Reclaiming medicine means pulling back the curtain on its captured institutions and reviving root-cause, holistic healing.
