A culture (the Modern Era 1870-1960) that successfully convinced itself that eating whole wheat bread mother made herself in her own kitchen was unsafe and that white bread made in a factory a hundred miles away was much safer is obviously crazy enough to fall for pretty well anything and everything.
Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin aside, it also fell hard for the idea of extending the false promises of eugenic purity to everything.
Rejecting mama's fresh from the oven bread was just a pre-game warm-up.
Rejecting all the wonderful taste and Vitamin C in Mama Nature's naturally grown oranges for the blandly man-made synthetic Vitamin C pill was stage two.
Stage three was a willingness to die - or let your doctors let you die - rather than have them inject crude raw natural penicillin into your system - you'd rather wait for the pure synthetic patented and pricey version, if you lived long enough.
And claiming that the demands of war meant scarcities all around allowed all those unused rural milk plants that Floyd Odlum struggled to find useful work for to be remain deliberately idle ---- rather than produce natural penicillin for dying soldiers and civilians who were finding sulfa drugs were no longer working well.
The American OSRD agency of FDR's nominally Democratic government was effectively captured by the Republican firm of George W Merck and through its button man A N Richards it claimed that natural penicillin couldn't be produced during the war because (a) it was impure (untrue) and (b) there were no unused resources available to do so (again untrue).
In fact the OSRD sought to create an cult of (artificial) scarcity about penicillin in advance of Merck releasing its own patented synthetic penicillin , in scarce amounts and at high prices worldwide, as soon as the war ended.
(During WWII, George W hoped to regain the family honour, lost during WWI , by playing the patriot card to the hilt.)
That is why America which rarely ever signs international treaties spent the war arguing with equally greedy and sordid types in the UK over an international treaty between the two, all about how their cartel would divide the post-war worldwide penicillin bonanza , like two Roman soldiers playing dice for Jesus's cloak.
Instead, thanks to Dawson, postwar penicillin became and remains our cheapest lifesaver - giving us all an indirect herd affect as a result.
Humanity One, Merck Zero ....
Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin aside, it also fell hard for the idea of extending the false promises of eugenic purity to everything.
Rejecting mama's fresh from the oven bread was just a pre-game warm-up.
Rejecting all the wonderful taste and Vitamin C in Mama Nature's naturally grown oranges for the blandly man-made synthetic Vitamin C pill was stage two.
Stage three was a willingness to die - or let your doctors let you die - rather than have them inject crude raw natural penicillin into your system - you'd rather wait for the pure synthetic patented and pricey version, if you lived long enough.
And claiming that the demands of war meant scarcities all around allowed all those unused rural milk plants that Floyd Odlum struggled to find useful work for to be remain deliberately idle ---- rather than produce natural penicillin for dying soldiers and civilians who were finding sulfa drugs were no longer working well.
The American OSRD agency of FDR's nominally Democratic government was effectively captured by the Republican firm of George W Merck and through its button man A N Richards it claimed that natural penicillin couldn't be produced during the war because (a) it was impure (untrue) and (b) there were no unused resources available to do so (again untrue).
In fact the OSRD sought to create an cult of (artificial) scarcity about penicillin in advance of Merck releasing its own patented synthetic penicillin , in scarce amounts and at high prices worldwide, as soon as the war ended.
(During WWII, George W hoped to regain the family honour, lost during WWI , by playing the patriot card to the hilt.)
That is why America which rarely ever signs international treaties spent the war arguing with equally greedy and sordid types in the UK over an international treaty between the two, all about how their cartel would divide the post-war worldwide penicillin bonanza , like two Roman soldiers playing dice for Jesus's cloak.
Instead, thanks to Dawson, postwar penicillin became and remains our cheapest lifesaver - giving us all an indirect herd affect as a result.
Humanity One, Merck Zero ....
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