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“No. You are scientifically wrong about that as you are about so many things. Let’s be clear: The First Amendment protects Americans from government censorship, and that’s it. It does not guarantee you to simultaneously hold a faculty position at a prestigious private university and make misleading claims on a TV show. It absolutely protects your right to say whatever you like on it, just as it protects my right to say what I think about you on mine, which is this: You are the worst person in scrubs who has ever been on television—and I’m including Katherine Heigl in that. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to be worse than Katherine Heigl? You are also the admittedly handsome ringmaster of a middling mid-afternoon televised snake-oil dispensary and it says something that even when you do a show with seven fake models of human feces, the biggest piece of shit on the stage has his name in the title.”
By the way there are now over a thousand doctors calling for Dr. Oz to step down from his faculty position at Columbia University.
Courtesy of Fox News:
Earlier this week, 10 doctors sent a letter calling for Oz, host of the popular TV show "The Dr. Oz Show," to be removed from his academic position as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Columbia. The doctors said that Oz has promoted products and made claims that aren't supported by medical evidence.
And now, of the 1,300 doctors who responded by 4 p.m. ET today (April 24) to a poll conducted by SERMO, a social network for doctors, 735 doctors (57 percent) said Oz should resign from his faculty position at Columbia. Fifty doctors (4 percent) said Oz should have his medical license revoked. And another 280 doctors (22 percent) said Oz should both resign from his position and have his license taken away.
Personally I have long disliked Dr. Oz and his fact free TV program.
It started for me when I left the television on all night, and woke up in the morning to Oz telling his audience about a "miracle" fat reducing supplement that he guaranteed would help people drop at least fifteen pounds without doing anything else different.
Literally the first word that left my mouth that morning was "bullshit!"
Anybody, doctor or otherwise, who puts the word "miracle" in front of any fat reducing product should immediately cause you to stop listening to them immediately.
And from what I have learned since, virtually ALL of his presentations which push miraculous foods, supplements, and even exercise regimes are flawed, and they provide potentially dangerous information to his largely undereducated sycophants.
I feel about Dr. Oz the same way I do about Dr. Phil.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Oprah, for nothing.
Come to think of it, so do I!
DeleteThe first thing I disliked about Dr. Oz, very early on, was his touchy-feely way with the women he felt were all a-twitter in his handsome presence. Blarghhh. Then, when he'd pretty much exhausted unromantic common-sense medical advice, he began with the magic beans and miracle berries, and I wondered when people would start saying something, anything, about it. Now that his colleagues are speaking up in a big way, he's trying to make it sound like Monsanto's out to get him.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is about GMO labeling, Dr. Oz -- it's the magic beans.
I am so sick of it! Sick of all the scam artists, you can expect it from the uneducated like the Palins but here is a Doctor using his position to con and make tons of money and he should remove himself from being associated with ANY hospital, if he wants to scam people he can but not at the expense of sullying the reputation of Columbia and the dedicated Doctors that are there.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of scams Bristol has a new pic. of Tripp on her instagram Career Day at school, what is Tripp wearing? a military uniform and saluting! That is all they aspire for this kid to be? join the service? I am steaming! Teach him how to shoot guns and now put him in a military uniform. Is this so he can be a mini Dakota? is it a part of the plan of Tripp going to gun shows with them and using his "cuteness" to make a buck?
You can bet that is the next step for him to be home schooled so he can travel around and pass out flags at gun shows promoting Dakota and Bristol. Where are you Levi? This is sickening.
She's raising him to be cannon fodder?
DeleteNow that Sarah and Co. have found another army boy (and one better than the now-forgotten, disappointing Track), they are going to milk the gung-ho GI Joe-loving schtick for everything it's worth.
DeleteSince that Palins wear their clothes to more than one even, Tripper can wear his little soldier suit to the shotgun wedding. Ringbearer/Gunbearer. WTF?
DeleteRJ
There went my breakast.
DeleteG, Do you know anything about why Levi is letting this go on? Does he not care or maybe he is not really the father?
DeleteIt would seem that any parent would step in and try to stop what is happening to this child.
Is there some reason that this is being allowed by Levi? Are the Palins still that much in control of power in Alaska?
Please tell if you know.
That is sickening. Barstool should lose all custodial rights to Tripp. She is a pathetic excuse for a mother!
ReplyDeleteAs horrible as it may sound, one does have to wonder how long before he shoots up his school.
DeleteWhen the Oz show started, it was informative because so many people are SO clueless about their bodies and about medical treatments. Somewhere along the line it went off the rails. There are many alternative treatments out there that should receive attention because they could help so many people alleviate suffering BUT there are just as much or more snake oil "treatments" that unfortunately receive so much more attention because someone makes money off their promotion. Ugh. Maybe it is time to end the Oz show and send him back to being JUST a surgeon.
ReplyDeleteI really didn't know much about Dr. Oz except that my elderly mother swears by him. Then a few years ago, he did a show on gay conversion therapy. He framed it as "presenting two sides of the issue" and letting viewers make up their own minds. One of his guests was Christopher Doyle. I was screaming at the TV--how can a medical doctor who is supposed to HELP people present, even "impartially," a type of therapy that has been discredited by every major medical and psychiatric association, and linked to an increase in teen suicide?!
ReplyDeleteIt was on a par with Dr. Phil's coverage of the Steubenville rape case, which made me sick to my stomach.
People are fed up with the fake snake-oil salesmen and demand these charlatans stop insulting and discrediting the good name of Columbia-produced doctors and all true hard-working doctors.
ReplyDeleteJO really knows how to put them in their place. Now if only a group of politicians and journalists would call out one Sarah Palin for the snake-oil saleswoman that she is, selling her fake brand for OPM's donations and $$$. If this fake could draw out some real conservatives, who worked their way up the political chain through hard work, call her out as a charlatan and a discredit to their occupation, it would be a good day.
IMO the most important part of the show was exposing sweatshop slavery. Well done, John Oliver!
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that many people assume since he is an actual doctor, the he wouldn't mislead them, or that even if he did, he'd lose his license. So, probably that's exactly what needs to happen...
ReplyDeleteWho foisted Dr. Oz on us? Who started his career on tv? Was it Oprah?
ReplyDeleteI know Oprah is responsible for Dr. Phil eventually getting his own show. Did she do the same for Dr. Oz?
If so, she needs to expose him for the fraud he is and apologize to us.
Which is more than we'll get from McCain for unleashing Palin on the country. I wipe my ass with you, McCain.
I am so glad I signed up for HBOnow. With Colbert gone and Stewart soon to follow, I've still got John Oliver.
I don't think I've ever looked at more than five minutes of even any six shows of his. There was just something in his look that creeped me, and instinct said 'no.'
ReplyDeleteCivility and intelligence in daytime left with Phil Donahue, when the first chair was thrown on Geraldo and the first weave pulled off on Springer.
Man Men's last episode is May 17th; after that, I've got no 'appointment' TV, day or night.