But then they might not be effective.
Actually, placebos have been shown to work even when the patient knows they are placebos.
Amazing but true.
I saw him one show and his stupid analogies like this plastic shield is like antioxidants, this hammer is like free radicals, this tomato is like your cells to be insipid drivel. I didn’t see any horrid information though and wondered why he had gotten a snuffed candle award.
Next time I saw him he had on a woman who was reading handwriting to diagnose people and claiming that altering your handwriting will lessen your risk for certain diseases. Then I fully understood why he’d gotten a snuffed candle award.
I grew up listening to him on Love Line. I think he genuinely wanted to help people and gave great advice with what always came across (to my civilian ears) as legitimate medical backing. And he put up with Adam Carolla for all those years to do it.
It’s the nature of the show that it’s entertainment - infotainment? - which people are taking seriously because, hey, it’s hosted by a well known doctor! (He can’t very well spend an hour a day talking about hearts and cardiac surgery. He agreed to host a tabloid TV version of medical advice.) Blueberry juice, supplements, a spoonful of vinegar a day, the newest weight loss pills - all that crap cluttering the aisle in Walmart - enough already.
It so smacks of Kevin Trudeau, and Prevention magazine miracle cures.
Bolding mine.
Maybe you consider him an asshole, but I don’t recall Jay Leno giving out unsupported medical advice or peddling quackery.
Must be the chin.
I don’t think so. I would bet it’s more about 1) filling days and days of air time on medical subjects. Even medical school only lasts 4 years. How many ways can you demonstrate the advantage of fiber if you’re constipated? and then 2) Seeing which topics gain the biggest ratings.
To maintain your audience past one or two years, you’re almost forced to pitch miracle weight loss cures.
Yes, with the context being ok when used in trials or research studies to help measure efficacy of other drugs, but not when used as a treatment plan or marketed in retail with deceptive claims and descriptions.
I’m glad they don’t… PURE oxygen destroys flesh, doesn’t it?
It doesn’t destroy flesh. It will damage your eyes, but that would take longer than a flight. The real danger is fire. The spark from unplugging a USB port could light your laptop(and lap) up like you were covered in lighter fluid.
Thanks for this thread. I find TV doctor shows to be boring and padded, so I don’t watch them. I think I noticed once that they were full of dorky trending ideas or something someone came up with in the absence of dorky trending ideas.
So I never really noticed that Dr Oz was a quack and a charlatan pushing woo. Good to know.
Dr. Oz guest must repay $9 million to customers in ‘magic beans’ diet scam
Sweet 
“Beans, beans, the magical fruit” doesn’t seem like it should be that effective of a scam.
I don’t know. Some guys will trade their last cow just to boost the size of their beanstalk.
“The researchers also found that the host, cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, failed to address potential conflicts of interest on his program.” Tell us more, Raw Story!
You must have an awesome spam filter. I don’t watch live TV, ever, and I don’t even live in the US. But I am well aware of Dr. Oz’s connection to unproven supplements and the like, because about half the spam that gets through my filter is titled something along the lines of “As Endorsed by Dr. Oz: Miracle Diet Pill!”
In fact, I think spam is how I found out Dr. Oz exists.
I think he must have been watching The Daily Show one night when a commercial came on featuring Smilin’ Bob, and he was transfixed, and he said, “I wanna be that guy!”
I did not know this! That explains why he had some 9 or 10 year old Reiki practitioner on his show and acted like her “treatments” were real. (I was in a patient’s house and they were watching Dr. Oz) What utter quackery!