In the Shadow of Flexner

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In the Shadow of Flexner
Produced & Directed by Justin Smith
https://tubitv.com/movies/100031400/in-the-shadow-of-flexner

A long time ago, Rockefeller, Carnegie and a gang mostly recruited from Johns Hopkins U and the American Medical Association came up with a clever scheme to take over the medical field. They set up organizations to promote and certify pharmaceutical-based approaches. They recruited Abraham Flexner, who was not a doc­tor, to produce a report that was very critical of alternative medical institutions. Up to that time, options like herbalism, nutrition and homeopathy were on the table. With the help of Flexner, the gang largely eliminated the competition.

As the video points out, mainstream medi­cine is very impressive at putting you back to­gether when you are sliced, diced, punctured or broken. That is a small fraction of overall medical needs. According to the CDC, around 60 percent of adults have some chronic disease. Big med can’t help you there and, if you give them a try, they will probably just make things worse.

In the Shadow of Flexner treats us to a brief history of how we got here and the philosophy underlying modern medical paradigms. This reminded me of one of my favorite TV shows back in the 1970s, The Six Million Dollar Man. “A man barely alive. We can rebuild him, make him better, stronger, faster,” blah-blah-blah. Little did I realize at the time that I was being introduced to transhumanist ideas. The message has now been amplified to the point where big pharma is actually talking about downloading an operating system into human beings. Artificial intelligence is adding more fuel to the fire. The message is that we are just robots. Body parts can be arti­ficially replaced, and we can be programmed like a computer. Cookie-cutter treatment is fine because there is not much difference between us humans. Even male and female have become interchangeable.

The video makes an interesting point about how many people are instinctively afraid of doctors. Do these people have the same fear of homeopaths, herbalists or nutritionists? I can understand how nutrition could be a little scary if they try to make you eat kale, but a good nu­tritionist would never do such a horrible thing. Still, if I had to pick between kale and needles or knives, I would probably go for the kale, although it is a tough choice.

At this point, many shadows have been cast over the medical field, from Jenner and his vac­cines to Pasteur, Flexner and Fauci. But “trust your doctor.” The thumb is UP for this video.

This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Fall 2025

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