Dr. Oz and My 'Aha Moment' on Oprah's Quackery

[edhopper]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/dr-oz-senate-run-should-be-aha-moment-on-oprahs-quackery.html

My issue isn’t so much with the not-so-good doctor himself, though I’m certainly not thrilled about a known peddler of medical misinformation who entered the political arena by giving Donald Trump a bogus on-air health evaluation potentially becoming a senator. In terms of the me of it all, the bigger problem is that I know I’m finally going to be forced to reckon with Oprah Winfrey’s penchant for promoting pseudoscience that harms society...

...Would we be living in a country where about a quarter of the eligible population is refusing a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccination if Oprah hadn’t invited model/actress Jenny McCarthy on her show in 2007 to promote the false claim that vaccines cause autism? (As Vox’s Julia Belluz noted, McCarthy declared, “The University of Google is where I got my degree from” and Oprah remarked, “thank God for Google” —

[Rebl2]

1. Only watched

Oprah for a few years in the beginning. After a few years, didn’t care for some of her guests and quit watching.

[Faux pas]

2. Kickety Kickin'

[tulipsandroses]

3. Yes, even without Oprah we would still be here

Facebook and the internet has further reach.

[edhopper]

4. Now

but you would be surprised at the influence she had,

[Wahyee]

5. Oprah's done as much damage as Mark Burnett.

Both have foisted snake-oil salesmen on us.

[gldstwmn]

9. Mark Burnett should be sent back to Australia.

[gldstwmn]

6. She did help Arnold Schwarzenegger elected back when.

He seems pretty mild compared to what we're up against now.

[edhopper]

7. That recall

that got him elected was bullshit. But at least he opposed Trump.

[gldstwmn]

8. That he did and he believes climate change

is real so he's got that going for him too.

[edhopper]

10. Wonder why

he stays a Republican?

[gldstwmn]

11. I'm not sure he really is anymore.

Is he a fiscal conservative? I can't remember now.