There's some drama about Maduro hyping it as a Venezuelan COVID cure, but I can't find anything about it. Besides (per Wikipedia) maybe it's a synonym for carvacrol/isothymol. Capitalist stranglehold on science suppressing the facts or is he actually just telling everyone to drink oregano oil?
Science being dominated by bourgeois institutes tends to lead to distrust in science as a whole.
Not to mention the edge of science being hidden in the military industrial complex....