How Medical Licensing Serves Big Pharma at the Expense of Public Health https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-medical-licensing-serves… By Jeremy R. Hammond > The purpose of medical licensing is not to protect consumers but the financial interests of privileged trade organizations allied with Big Pharma. *** > **Claiming Undeserved Credit** > Another myth constantly reinforced by the medical cartel is that its therapeutic measures were responsible for the dramatic decline in mortality observed during the twentieth century. Most specifically, we are supposed to believe that vaccines were the cause of dramatic reductions in infectious disease mortality, but it is a simple fact of the historical data that these reductions mostly occurred before there were even any vaccines to possibly help explain it. > Here, for example, is the data for diphtheria:  > Here’s pertussis:  > And here’s the dreaded measles:  > These dramatic reductions in disease mortality were instead due to factors related to an increasing standard of living, including sanitation, refrigeration, less crowding, better personal hygiene, and better nutrition. https://stacker.news/items/1455312