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In the labyrinth of pharmaceutical history, few stories are as intriguing—or as misunderstood—as the claim that a single oil tycoon invented synthetic drugs to profit from petroleum byproducts, condemned herbal medicine, and secretly relied on homeopathy for his own health. This popular narrative, often linked to John D. Rockefeller, suggests that he turned unused oilContinue reading “The Curious Case of Synthetic Drugs: Fact or Fiction?”