Dr. Oz Debunked...Again

PRMinx
PRMinx Posts: 4,585 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Researchers retract study supporting diet pills promoted by Dr. Oz. It's about time.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/23/health/dr-oz-diet-pill-study/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Replies

  • AskTracyAnnK28
    AskTracyAnnK28 Posts: 2,817 Member
    Dr. OZ is a snakeoil salesman and a total windbag. I hope he gets his license to practice medicine revoked.
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    I've said it before and I'll say it a million times... Dude should stick to surgery...
  • SLHysell
    SLHysell Posts: 247 Member
    From what I can see, Dr Oz only promotes something when someone pays him to do so. He's obviously a paid spokesman who is for sale to the highest bidder. I wouldn't put any stock into anything he has to say.
  • mitch16
    mitch16 Posts: 2,113 Member
    I am utterly shocked to find that he attended well-respected universities and he's still shilling this cr*p.
  • PRMinx
    PRMinx Posts: 4,585 Member
    tracyannk28 wrote: »
    Dr. OZ is a snakeoil salesman and a total windbag. I hope he gets his license to practice medicine revoked.

    AMEN.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    tracyannk28 wrote: »
    Dr. OZ is a snakeoil salesman and a total windbag. I hope he gets his license to practice medicine revoked.
    But a rich one!

  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    I don't like the way he pretends he is giving medical advice.

    During the show I saw, he was pushing storage containers and actually trying to scare people into believing that the other storage containers were worse for their health. Like, medically speaking, THIS is the superior storage container.

    There are lines you shouldn't cross and a big one is abusing the trust of those who depend on you. He has crossed it.

    I, too, think they should pull his license if he still has one.
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    When he was on Oprah just explaining things, he was great. Then he got his own show and went bananas. I saw one show where he acted like it was crazy (CRAZY!!!) that people handled produce at the grocery store. OMG WASH IT!!!! As if people don't already know to do that. Maybe that's how the clean eating phase started. :laugh:
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,273 Member
    What do you expect when some of the things Oz espouses among "john of God" and talking to dead spirits are these:

    http://web.randi.org/home/from-the-archives-randis-inside-scoop-into-abc-news-john-of-god-investigation-2005
    He supports, and has written extensively on, such "complementary therapies" as hypnosis, "therapeutic touch", guided imagery, reflexology, aromatherapy, prayer, yoga, and "energy medicine," and he encourages their use "in combination with the latest surgical techniques." Dr. Oz believes in using "alternative" techniques — which he refers to as "Global Medicine," — in an attempt to unblock and balance the chakras (energy channels), thereby boosting the body's natural healing capacities. His "complementary care" team at Columbia follows up with studies using "Kirlian photography". All these are totally quack notions, and I began to suspect why he had been chosen by ABC-TV News as a participant.

Categories