The claim that holistic doctors were being killed by the medical establishment began circulating around 2015 without verified evidence.

A 2026 report traces the rumor to about 2015 and describes its central claim: holistic doctors were supposedly being killed to hide cancer cures. The article presents this as a conspiracy theory, not an established finding. It also places the story beside older rumors about murdered free-energy inventors and scientists who allegedly knew too much. That repeating shape matters: a dramatic explanation can spread even when the underlying cases do not form a proven pattern.