"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

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Another irony meter blown: Dr. Oz to testify in front of the Senate’s Consumer Protection panel about weight loss scams

Post author By Orac
Post date June 11, 2014
71 Comments on Another irony meter blown: Dr. Oz to testify in front of the Senate’s Consumer Protection panel about weight loss scams

I’ve never made it much of a secret that I don’t much like “America’s doctor,” Dr. Mehmet Oz. Just enter his name into the search box of this blog, and you’ll find quite a few posts in which I deconstruct some bit of quackery that Dr. Oz has promoted on his show, be it his […]

Tags Claire McCaskill, Garcinia Gambogia, green coffee bean, Mehmet Oz, Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, supplements

Complementary and alternative medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking Television

Dr. Oz versus science—again

Post author By Orac
Post date January 2, 2013
104 Comments on Dr. Oz versus science—again

That Dr. Mehmet Oz uses his show to promote quackery of the vilest sort is no longer in any doubt. I was reminded yet again of this last week when I caught a rerun of one of his shows from earlier this season, when he gazed in wonder at the tired old cold reading schtick […]

Tags alternative medicine, faith healing, green coffee bean, John Edward, Joseph Mercola, Mehmet Oz, psychic, quackery, scams, supplements, Theresa Caputo

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