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I hear you like Doctor Oz.

Posts: 12,950 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/17/7410535/dr-oz-advice

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And what they found was disappointing but not exactly surprising: about half of the health recommendations had either no evidence behind them or they actually contradicted what the best-available science tells us. That means about half of what these TV doctors say to their millions of satellite patients is woo, and potentially harmful and wasteful woo at that.

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  • Posts: 1,823 Member
    I can't stand that guy. He sells his name to the highest bidder. As soon as anyone says anything about Dr. Oz, I just stop listening.
  • Posts: 12,950 Member
    But... Garcinia Camembert!
  • Posts: 6,208 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    But... Garcinia Camembert!
    That sounds delicious
  • Posts: 9,603 Member
    I saw the show once. He was selling storage containers, but doing it as if it were medical advice, lol. Like, medically speaking, this storage container was superior to other storage containers.

    It's just wrong. They ought to revoke his license.
  • Posts: 599 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    I saw the show once. He was selling storage containers, but doing it as if it were medical advice, lol. Like, medically speaking, this storage container was superior to other storage containers.

    It's just wrong. They ought to revoke his license.

    Medical storage containers? Wut.
  • Posts: 15,151 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    But... Garcinia Camembert!

    LMFAO!!
  • Posts: 12,950 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    I saw the show once. He was selling storage containers, but doing it as if it were medical advice, lol. Like, medically speaking, this storage container was superior to other storage containers.

    It's just wrong. They ought to revoke his license.

    wait a minute, serious? Were they for like, sharps or something?
  • Posts: 13,575 Member
    dbmata wrote: »

    wait a minute, serious? Were they for like, sharps or something?

    Maybe it was similar to the Beachbody 21 day fix (or something like that), where you put all your food in their little containers for portion control?

    Sometimes I feel like the only freak in the world that has never seen Dr. Oz.
  • Posts: 681 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    But... Garcinia Camembert!
    :D:#
  • Posts: 12,950 Member

    Maybe it was similar to the Beachbody 21 day fix (or something like that), where you put all your food in their little containers for portion control?

    Sometimes I feel like the only freak in the world that has never seen Dr. Oz.
    I have never watched Dr. Oz or the Doctors.

    i did see a minute or so of his senate committee hearing though, just to see what a sad panda looked like.
  • Posts: 796 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    [url="http://www.vox.com/2014/12/17/7410535/dr-oz-That means about half of what these TV doctors say to their millions of satellite patients is woo, and potentially harmful and wasteful woo at that.
    Infotainment. More entertainment than vetted information. I'd add the twenty-four hour news channels to this too. I avoid them all, but can't completely since they are on infinite repeat - even at the gym.
  • Posts: 651 Member
    emdeesea wrote: »
    I can't stand that guy. He sells his name to the highest bidder. As soon as anyone says anything about Dr. Oz, I just stop listening.

    Ditto!

  • Posts: 316 Member
    he has a new show premiering on discovery fit & health called Surgeon Oz, and it's all about these life threatening surgeries he's completing and people who he's saved. If it were anyone else I would take is seriously...but it screams "For realz I'm a real doctor!" to me
  • Posts: 12,950 Member
    Oh yeah, not even going to start in on news channels. A lot of that is like reading rooster intestines as well.
  • Posts: 819 Member

    Medical storage containers? Wut.

    For organ donations? Or is that where Dr. Oz stores his brain while filming?
    Zing!

  • Posts: 12,950 Member
    Slasher09 wrote: »
    he has a new show premiering on discovery fit & health called Surgeon Oz, and it's all about these life threatening surgeries he's completing and people who he's saved. If it were anyone else I would take is seriously...but it screams "For realz I'm a real doctor!" to me

    From what I've been told, he's actually a competent surgeon. I have no first hand experience though.
  • Posts: 12,950 Member

    Sounds like some kind of tasty camembert cheese.... from mexico. Let's sell it as a miracle weight loss drug. We can say it just melts the fat away. ;D

    It's the base of any quality vat of queso dip.
  • Posts: 1,748 Member
    I got a panicked phone call from my mother once asking if my kids still drank apple juice......but the arsenic! :o
  • Posts: 13,575 Member
    dbmata wrote: »
    I have never watched Dr. Oz or the Doctors.

    i did see a minute or so of his senate committee hearing though, just to see what a sad panda looked like.

    I haven't purposely avoided seeing him, I just rarely watch TV during the day. I googled him once just to see who he was after my sister started taking some coffee bean supplement he promoted.
  • Posts: 12,950 Member
    Laurend224 wrote: »
    I got a panicked phone call from my mother once asking if my kids still drank apple juice......but the arsenic! :o
    Oh man, there was a post on Facebook that made me want to punch someone in the face.

    Chicken contains arsenic!

    ....ugh... shut up.
  • Posts: 12,950 Member

    I haven't purposely avoided seeing him, I just rarely watch TV during the day. I googled him once just to see who he was after my sister started taking some coffee bean supplement he promoted.
    If the tv is ever on during the day, it's food network, on mute.
  • Posts: 796 Member
    This is fun too.
    Pseudoscience promoter Dr. Oz’s Twitter Q&A was a magnificent train wreck


    "If i get flu shot again, should i expect double autism, or is the one from last year gone and i will just get new one? #OzsInbox #skeptic"
  • Posts: 9,603 Member
    dbmata wrote: »

    wait a minute, serious? Were they for like, sharps or something?
    No! they weren't sharps containers. That would at least make sense. Those have to be able to handle chemicals and various body parts. And sharp items.

    No, these were storage containers to store food, like Tupperware or Rubbermaid. I cannot remember the name of the stuff he was selling, but he really did pretend that, medically speaking, THIS storage container was better.

    I wasn't surprised that someone would say this container was better than all others, but it was surprised and disappointed to hear a doctor saying it like, for your health, you should be using this storage container.

    The profession is already having a harder time attracting smart kids. They don't need people thinking of doctors as snake oil salesmen. They really should pull his license.
  • Posts: 12,950 Member
    Maybe if you put the flu vaccine in the containers it would leach out the thimerosal....

    He's full Howard, but I really hope kids with caviar dreams aren't looking at him and saying, "I'll be an actuary instead."
  • Posts: 13,575 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    No! they weren't sharps containers. That would at least make sense. Those have to be able to handle chemicals and various body parts. And sharp items.

    No, these were storage containers to store food, like Tupperware or Rubbermaid. I cannot remember the name of the stuff he was selling, but he really did pretend that, medically speaking, THIS storage container was better.

    I wasn't surprised that someone would say this container was better than all others, but it was surprised and disappointed to hear a doctor saying it like, for your health, you should be using this storage container.

    The profession is already having a harder time attracting smart kids. They don't need people thinking of doctors as snake oil salesmen. They really should pull his license.

    Maybe they were BPA free? Just trying to imagine what could possibly make one container better than another, other than leaky seals.
  • Posts: 12,950 Member
    were they shaped like pyramids? Pyramids provide all sorts of benefits...
  • Posts: 316 Member
    dbmata wrote: »

    From what I've been told, he's actually a competent surgeon. I have no first hand experience though.

    I've heard that as well that he is a very good surgeon. It's just hard to take him seriously anymore and I think that is why he wants to do this show, to show people that he actually is competent and a real doctor.
  • Posts: 9,603 Member

    Maybe they were BPA free? Just trying to imagine what could possibly make one container better than another, other than leaky seals.
    I don't remember and can't say why. I was that shocked that he was selling storage containers that I cannot remember what he said. It's been quite a while.
  • Posts: 4,926 Member
    He did used to be respected as a doctor. He wrote some really decent books before he had a tv show.
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