It’s always been rampant clownery from these celebrity doctors. Hell, I first dubbed @DrOz “America’s Quack” in 2014. It’s just that we noticed more now because of the pandemic. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/05/14/americas-quack-dr-mehmet-oz/ …https://twitter.com/WFKARS/status/1345380427457032192 …
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Heck, in 2010, I once asked if
@DrOz had finally crossed the Woobicon when he had@mercola as a guest on his show. I kid you not. 11 years ago, he had Joe über-quack Mercola on his show.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2010/03/02/dr-oz-has-crossed-the-rubicon/ …1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes -
Oh, and Deepak Chopra. He had Deepak Chopra AND Joe Mercola. On the same episode of his show!
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And in 2011, @sciencebasedmedicine founder
@stevennovella even appeared on@DrOz's show to argue for science-based medicine, at which point I concluded that Dr. Oz had become Kevin Trudeau.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2011/04/27/steve-novella-on-the-dr-oz-show-dr-oz-ha/ …1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes -
I know, I know. I'm being the old fart here. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to have it increasingly recognized what quacks Dr. Oz and other celebrity doctors are. It's just that I can't help but point out that I and several other skeptics were doing it 15 years ago.
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There were a few who were doing it before I noticed, too. (Steve was doing it in 2007, at least.) It's just that celebrity doctors have always been dodgy at best, too prone to sensationalism and simple answers, and quacks at worst.https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/heart-and-soul-–-but-no-mind/ …
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I'll close with a post I wrote 12 years ago, when I included Dr. Oz among the members of the Four Horsemen of the Woo-pocalypse, the others being Andrew Weil, Dean Ornish, and Mark Hyman, all of whom Sen. Tom Harkin brought to testify before his committee.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2009/03/03/senator-tom-harkin/ …
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