Dr. Oz is full of it too
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crazyjerseygirl wrote: »Also this is why we need to give the FDA power over supplements. "Natural" companies scared voters off back in the...90s? By suggesting that the govt would take away your vitamins
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IV2olDA0w8U
Ahh yes. The FDA. Protecting us from *kitten* that don't work.
I can't see videos at work, but I really hope this is the commercial with Mel Gibson about the government storming his house in the dead of night to take his vitamins.
Oh it is. It is.0 -
grandma107 wrote: »Dr. Phil is NOT like Jerry Springer......
Dr. Phil helps people with treatment etc. Jerry Springer is just an embarrassment. Blessings.
Dr. Phil. Pushed "weight loss" products. What's that have to do with psychology? Don't know. But he settled a lawsuit based on them.
Jerry Springer is a lawyer/failed politician turned tv host. He pushes trashy shows but doesn't try to hawk things beyond his area of expertise. He knows that he in entertainment.
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crazyjerseygirl wrote: »grandma107 wrote: »Dr. Phil is NOT like Jerry Springer......
Dr. Phil helps people with treatment etc. Jerry Springer is just an embarrassment. Blessings.
Dr. Phil. Pushed "weight loss" products. What's that have to do with psychology? Don't know. But he settled a lawsuit based on them.
Jerry Springer is a lawyer/failed politician turned tv host. He pushes trashy shows but doesn't try to hawk things beyond his area of expertise. He knows that he in entertainment.
Jerry Springer > Dr. Phil
Have you seen Springer interviewed? I was surprised at how likeable he actually is, considering how trashy his show comes off. He kind of laughs and shrugs and says it's a sideshow and the "guests" are often the ones who suggest the over-the-top scripted confrontations.
Also, even if you wouldn't want to copy him, you've got to love a guy whose political career ended because he hired a prostitute...and paid her with a personal check! And, then, after the fact was like, "what? It's not like the check bounced!"0 -
Springer doesn't take himself or his show seriously. That makes him likable.0
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That letter has finally hit the media - I saw it on the Today show this morning. Hopefully (fingers crossed) he will lose his job.
It's unbelievable to me that a highly acclaimed cardiac surgeon would sell out to the extent that Dr. Oz has done. Do you know how much they make? It's certainly not as if he needed the damned money. When he started as an occasional guest on Oprah's show, he actually covered important topics such as the damage smoking does to the lungs, and drinking to the liver. Now he's such a sellout I can't believe even the gullible buy into the BS.0 -
side note: Dr. Phil selling weight loss: don't you think he'd have lost some weight himself if the stuff he was promoting worked? Sheesh. And he's not even a licensed doctor of anything.0
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grandma107 wrote: »Dr. Phil is NOT like Jerry Springer......
Dr. Phil helps people with treatment etc. Jerry Springer is just an embarrassment. Blessings.
All TV shows are incredibly scripted. And fake.
I agree with this, especially the reality shows.0 -
I keep thinking that everyone knows this. But no, every day someone else tries to use "But... Dr. Oz" to back up some claim or other. Just adding my two cents to bump the thread so more people see it.0
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While Doc McStuffins explores rare diseases, like Filthy Icky Sticky Disease and Pipe-a-cloggity-crackity-tentacle-osis, that don’t have much published data, she never makes a claim directly contradicted by the literature.
Dr. Oz, on the other hand, frequently makes overreaching claims about dubious treatments, in spite of published data refuting his claims.”0 -
diannethegeek wrote: »I keep thinking that everyone knows this. But no, every day someone else tries to use "But... Dr. Oz" to back up some claim or other. Just adding my two cents to bump the thread so more people see it.
Not to mention the weekly Rasberry Ketones threads....0 -
We'll see. I used to work for CU, and a lot of variables go into a position like that:
- Visibility
- Ability to draw in new patients/ high income patients on the strength of your name
- Possibility that you will donate at a high level to the capital campaign
- Probability that when raising funds you will have access to other high net worth individuals, and play an active role in soliciting them for the capital campaign
It remains to be seen whether or not a petition of this nature will be toxic enough that his popularity lowers and has a real effect on the reasons he has his position.0 -
Looking for shortcuts is human. What's amazing is that he got away with it for so long. I mean, what made the suddenly pen the letter now? Could it be because Food Babe is on the rack at the moment?0
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LovelyIvy466 wrote: »We'll see. I used to work for CU, and a lot of variables go into a position like that:
- Visibility
- Ability to draw in new patients/ high income patients on the strength of your name
- Possibility that you will donate at a high level to the capital campaign
- Probability that when raising funds you will have access to other high net worth individuals, and play an active role in soliciting them for the capital campaign
It remains to be seen whether or not a petition of this nature will be toxic enough that his popularity lowers and has a real effect on the reasons he has his position.
Having worked in the medical field myself, I'm fairly sure it would be easy to prove legally that he's violated several laws that doctors are obligated to follow.0 -
NPR All Things Considered just reported on it.
There is a slightly greater than zero probability that he will lose his position at Columbia.0 -
His reaction ...
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Looking for shortcuts is human. What's amazing is that he got away with it for so long. I mean, what made the suddenly pen the letter now? Could it be because Food Babe is on the rack at the moment?
There as been a long standing feeling among scientists (and probably doctors too) that fighting psudoscience isn't worth the time. I think in the past few years there's been more if a movement to fight this stuff head on.0 -
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Dr. Oz doesn't have an opera about him. Jerry Springer does. End discussion.0
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This pleases me.0
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LovelyIvy466 wrote: »We'll see. I used to work for CU, and a lot of variables go into a position like that:
- Visibility
- Ability to draw in new patients/ high income patients on the strength of your name
- Possibility that you will donate at a high level to the capital campaign
- Probability that when raising funds you will have access to other high net worth individuals, and play an active role in soliciting them for the capital campaign
It remains to be seen whether or not a petition of this nature will be toxic enough that his popularity lowers and has a real effect on the reasons he has his position.
It won't effect his popularity at all but in the medical community, his credibility will be significantly compromised. If fools want to follow his false claims we can't stop them but he will be a laughing stock to the medical community which will eventually compromise his reputation in the lay community because he will have no colleagues to back him up.
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Looking for shortcuts is human. What's amazing is that he got away with it for so long. I mean, what made the suddenly pen the letter now? Could it be because Food Babe is on the rack at the moment?
I'm surprised that anyone could show sudden shock and/or dismay and/or disappointment when it comes to Dr. Oz. I have never been able to figure out why people follow him. I always thought he was a buffoon and a showman and was actually shocked to discover (years ago now) that he was an ACTUAL doctor. I though the "Dr." part of his name was just a cutesy show name. Like Dr. Feelgood or Captain America or The General Car Insurance or the Dog Whisperer or something. I couldn't believe it when I found out that, no, actually, he is a real, bona fide doctor, who at some time in the distant past probably did care about properly treating actual, live patients.
THAT was my only shock where it came to Dr. Oz.
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