Halstead was a brilliant surgeon who decided to replace sleep with cocaine, would stay up for a week straight then berate his students for not having the same “work ethic.” Over the years it’s morphed into kind of an initiation ritual where new doctors are forced to work, ironically, medically inadvisably long shifts to prove their dedication to the job. It’s insane and has led to countless injury and deaths from sleep deprived staff, but that’s just The Way Things Are Done.

That and the fossil fuel industry creating Greenpeace to spread propaganda far and wide under the guise of environmentalism