Dr. Oz is half-full of BS

[unit321]

"Misleading at best, total nonsense at worst" is how Julia Belluz describes her gut feeling over the years about the accuracy of Dr. Mehmet Oz's medical advice, she writes at Vox.com.

Now she's got science to back her up, thanks to a study published in the British Medical Journal that analyzed health recommendations from Oz's syndicated TV talk show, as well as nuggets from the popular The Doctors.

The researchers found that about half of the suggestions offered by these shows either contradicted what other scientific studies had found or had no verifiable evidence at all to stand behind them, and that potential conflicts of interest were seldom mentioned.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/science-shows-half-of-what-dr-oz-says-is-bunk/ar-BBgYgpC

Dr. Oz is nice guy, I guess. He got vaulted to fame by Oprah. I don't watch the show so I haven't listened to any of his advice.

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

nig told me there was arsenic in rice and that it could kill me

 

[ExodusNirvana]

nig told me there was arsenic in rice and that it could kill me

What he meant to say was that there is arsenic in rice....and it...arsenic...could kill you

But yeah nah dude got exposed when he went before congress and more or less told people that he was just telling them shyt to make them feel good

 

[JahFocus CS]

So much misinformation out there about health

 

[Big Jo]

Dr Oz pushes alot of herbs on his show that people write off as "snake oil" or say the science is inconclusive, but the reality is they are effective and they do work.

You just cant compare modern Western Medicine and herbalism. Pharmaceuticals are a quick fix but often with dangerous side effects and inflated prices. Herbs work slowly, not necessarily all of the time but are way more powerful and safer than people realize

Oz isn't always right but neither is science

 

[unit321]

I guess wearing scrubs makes people believe anything.

You can throw your red palm oil in the bushes.

So maybe not every episode was bad.

 

[aliG]

Dr Oz and Dr Phil are part of the fraud that Oprah likes to put out on the forefront.

 

[I_Got_Da_Burna]

My sister, who works in cardiology, told me he was on the brink of having his license revoked for whatever reason.

Either way, Dr. Oz is not respected in the medical community. He's seen as entertainment, not a doctor.

 

[Ego Noir]

I thought he was the GOAT doctor:omggay:


Joking aside I used to watch that show with a combo of :futurama: and


Half of it was bullshyt and fear mongering have you questioning everything around you and he presents it as pure fact.

Stop watching it precisely cause of that, and those corny reenactments.

 

[OsO]

medical misdiagnosis is one of the leading causes of death in this country, so let's keep everything in perspective.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...71a374-9af4-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html

A meta-analysis published last year in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety found that fatal diagnostic errors in U.S. intensive care units appear to equal the 40,500 deaths that result each year from breast cancer.




and that's only referring to the ICU

 

[Shogun]

when you have to spend an hour every day delivering medical advice to housewives you're bound to spit some bullshyt

my wife watches this d-bag

 

[Strapped]

dude is just a mortal man like you and me ,please proceed with caution in believing what you hear

 

[NZA]

when you deal with oprah, you deal in magical thinking, celebrity worship, and other foolishness that a certain subset of american housewives and baby mommas are into.

 

[HideoKojima]

General consesus is that people eat up Oprah co-signs. dude pushes a lot of bullshyt thinking. I think he suggested alternative medicine once and I thought that was weird since he's a real medical professional

 

[NoMayo15]

Herbs work slowly, not necessarily all of the time but are way more powerful and safer than people realize

Yeah, but so is doing nothing. You may or may not get better in the long run, with no harmful side effects GUARANTEED.

That's why people believe holistic medicines are bunk. There's absolutely no way to differentiate it from no medicine at all. You can hope or pray you get better with practically the same rate of success.