In 1913 the American Medical Association (AMA) established a “Propaganda Department” for the purpose of gathering and disseminate information concerning “health fraud and quackery.” Setting up just before World War I and then the Influenza Pandemic of 1918, called the “Spanish Flu”.
Homeopathy, and any“cult” that competed with allopathy, were deemed “quacks”. With the financial backing of Carnegie and Rockefeller, Organised Medicine branches into media.