Editing Matthias Rath (section)

==Background==
Born in [[Stuttgart]], Germany, Rath studied at the [[Hamburg University]] Medical School in Germany.<ref name="african-decisions">Natural health in Africa. African Decisions magazine. Issue 3/2004. Pages 26–28.</ref> After graduating, he began researching [[arteriosclerosis]] at the University Clinic of Hamburg. Later, during 1989 and 1990, he was a researcher at the Berlin Heart Centre.<ref name="business-guardian"/> He subsequently joined two-time Nobel Prize laureate [[Linus Pauling]] at his research institute in California.<ref name="african-decisions"/> Ultimately, Rath had a falling-out with the Linus Pauling Institute; after a series of [[lawsuit]]s and countersuits, Rath was ordered in 1994 to pay the Institute $75,000 and was assigned several patents.<ref name="business-guardian">[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/12/matthiasrath.southafrica A global business built on vitamins – and the claim to kill all disease], by Sarah Bosely. Published in ''[[The Guardian]]'' on 12 September 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2008.</ref> Rath subsequently developed his own branded nutrient products, set up the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and Dr. Rath Research Institute, and funds nutrition research with patent development in what he calls "Cellular Medicine".

Rath has offices in California, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and South Africa ([[Cape Town]]). His foundation also advertises its products in Spain, France, and Russia.<ref name="FallofRath"/><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,,1483792,00.html "Discredited doctor's 'cure' for Aids ignites life-and-death struggle in South Africa"], by Sarah Boseley. Published in ''[[The Guardian]]'' on 14 May 2005.</ref> According to Eversheds, Rath's solicitor, the Dr. Rath Health Foundation is "a not-for-profit body which conducts research into science-based natural therapies",<ref>[http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=37846&c=1 'BMJ pays out to doctor over 'child death' story.’] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304190940/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=37846&c=1 |date=4 March 2008 }} ''Press Gazette'' magazine. Published 5 June 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2008.</ref> but the foundation is estimated to have earned "millions" through nutritional supplement sales.<ref name="Denouncer">[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/12/matthiasrath.aids1 'Matthias Rath: Denouncer of modern medicine.'] S. Boseley, ''The Guardian'', 12 September 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2008.</ref>

According to Rath, international events of the last century have been driven by pharmaceutical and oil companies. He claims that these interests started and exploited [[World War II]].<ref name="FallofRath"/> In court filings, Rath and his lawyers write that the pharmaceutical industry then started [[apartheid]] in South Africa as part of a global conspiracy to "conquer and control the entire African continent." They specifically mention former [[Nazi]] officials and the German chemical company [[IG Farben]] as playing a central role in the alleged conspiracy. They also compare Rath's adversaries in court to Hitler's stormtroopers.<ref>[http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=nw20070510150555640C886929 'Apartheid a pharmaceutical plot-Rath'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030041927/http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=nw20070510150555640C886929 |date=30 October 2007 }} IOL-South Africa, 10 May 2007. Retrieved 8 September 2008.</ref>

Rath suggests that the pharmaceutical industry continues to control international politics today, allowing 9/11 to occur and starting the Iraq War to divert attention from what he considers the failures of drug companies.<ref name="no-drugs"/> On his website, Rath states that United States President [[George W. Bush]] and Vice President [[Dick Cheney]], at the behest of what Rath calls the "pharmaceutical cartel", were planning a nuclear war in advance of the 4 November 2008 elections in the United States. Rath has made similar claims in the ''[[New York Times]]'' and other major newspapers around the world in the form of large advertisements reportedly designed to resemble newspaper editorials.<ref name="business-guardian"/>