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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2014 is the year I first became a published writer, so I got to it as quick as I could!
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And I've only seldom been published in mainstream outlets, having been content mainly to blog and not really having been offered the opportunity very many times. I sometimes wonder if that means I'm just not that good a writer.
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Well, mainstream publications have only rarely had any interest in publishing me, and after 16 years you kind of get the message...
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Happy to help with a pitch anywhere I know an editor!
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Thanks. It's possible my problem is that I've never really tried much to create such opportunities aggressively.
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