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In reply to the discussion: Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)76. And he supports that lunatic, John of God!!
Which alone should warrant him being struck off the roles.
If you don't know who John of God is, well he's a kook, faith healer who does an old carny trick called psychic surgery and bilks people for their money claiming that they are healed, when he is just doing carny tricks, long ago debunked, as documented here and here.
And even on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show,
by James Randi. Amazingly, the NBC operators were flooded with calls that night with requests to get in touch with the psychic surgeon, in spite of the fact that Randi exposed it as an utter fraud.
That's how scammers and frauds like Mehmet Oz, and Peter Popoff, and John of God, and Benny Hinn and idiot homeopathists and chiropractors and all the eastern mythos new age kooks all get away with it, and get rich, peddling their quackery. They have nobody to hold them accountable. All this stuff is unregulated. The quacks have free reign.
That is, unless somebody holds their feet to the fire and shows their frauds.
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Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2014
OP
He goes out of his way to avoid mentioning brands and always, always issues that caveat I mentioned.
MADem
Dec 2014
#41
I have been forced to watch it (owing to the company I keep and I won't be rude and gripe
MADem
Dec 2014
#74
"Truth is you would have to have a deep knowledge of quantum physics to even begin to understand"
Thor_MN
Dec 2014
#79
But she also spent time promoting Obama during his first run for president. n/t
RebelOne
Dec 2014
#62
falsely claiming to have some special knowledge/wisdom that they use to exploit others.
AlbertCat
Dec 2014
#45
To put it in perspective, most campaign blather is baseless and wrong. And affects everyone.
djean111
Dec 2014
#7
And "real doctors" regularly put people on antibiotics for minor viral infections.
tridim
Dec 2014
#18
people bitch, moan and flap around until the "real doctor" gives them what they want....
paleotn
Dec 2014
#27
These medical experts shouldn't allow patients to prescribe serious medications for themselves.
tridim
Dec 2014
#28
It has a lot to do with nothing, i have found good and valuable information on his
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#12
You and I have discussed this previously, and IIRC we're more or less on the same page
Orrex
Dec 2014
#46
Not sensible and very very annoying the way the ads pop up all over the place
oldandhappy
Dec 2014
#21
Absurd that he didn't research Medline, Zynx or another evidence-based-medicine reference ...
Scuba
Dec 2014
#30
He'll use the FOX "News" defense that it's okay to lie to millions of people.
Spitfire of ATJ
Dec 2014
#33
"I wish he would speak in complete sentences more often than not, but other than that..."
Iggo
Dec 2014
#67
What is the average percent of medical advice doled out by doctors that turns out
pnwmom
Dec 2014
#44
All this talk just shows more evidence that Americans don't give a shit about ethics
AZ Progressive
Dec 2014
#77