• Celebrity daytime TV doctor "Dr. Oz" under investigation by Congressional Subcommittee for advertisi
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[quote](CNN) -- Dr. Mehmet Oz, host of "The Dr. Oz Show," faced grilling by senators on Capitol Hill about the promotion of weight loss products on his show. Sen. Claire McCaskill, chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance, led the panel that on Tuesday looked at false advertising for weight loss products. Subcommittee members took issue with assertions that Oz has made on his show about products that don't have a lot of scientific evidence to back them up, such as green coffee beans. "The scientific community is almost monolithic against you in terms of the efficacy of the three products you called 'miracles,' " said McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat. She said she was discouraged by the "false hope" his rhetoric gives viewers and questioned his role "intentional or not, in perpetuating these scams." "I don't get why you need to say this stuff when you know it's not true. When you have this amazing megaphone, why would you cheapen your show? ... With power comes a great deal of responsibility." The Federal Trade Commission is in charge of protecting consumers from "unfair or deceptive advertising and marketing practices that raise health and safety concerns." In May, the FTC sued the sellers of Green Coffee Beans for deceiving consumers through fake news sites and invented health claims.[/quote] [url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/17/health/senate-grills-dr-oz/index.html?hpt=hp_inthenews]CNN[/url]
I heard him talk on NPR yesterday and he said at the end of every segment/show he looks at the camera and reminds people "If you see my face on something, or my name, know it isn't true." [quote]"If you see my name, face or show in any type of ad, email or other circumstance," Oz testified, "it's illegal" — and not anything he has endorsed. He hasn't allowed his name to be associated with specific brands, he said, because of ethical concerns he has about doctors making endorsements of health products.[/quote] [url]http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=322952831&ft=1&f=[/url]
[QUOTE=credesniper;45143318]I heard him talk on NPR yesterday and he said at the end of every segment/show he looks at the camera and reminds people "If you see my face on something, or my name, know it isn't true."[/QUOTE] He's on the cover of almost every Woman's World and O magazine. He can say that all he wants (I've never seen him do it, but I haven't seen the show for years), but it doesn't change the fact that he advertises this stuff.
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];45143338']He's on the cover of almost every Woman's World and O magazine. He can say that all he wants (I've never seen him do it, but I haven't seen the show for years), but it doesn't change the fact that he advertises this stuff.[/QUOTE]I think there's some legal difference between advertising and endorsing.
[QUOTE=credesniper;45143349]I think there's some legal difference between advertising and endorsing.[/QUOTE] Not really. As far as I know, endorsement is considered a form of advertising. That would create an easy loophole wherein Drew Carey could say on the Price is Right this five minute little product placement spiel about how awesome x product is in this game and then say "I wasn't advertising the product, I was endorsing it". This is the case here.
[QUOTE=credesniper;45143349]I think there's some legal difference between advertising and endorsing.[/QUOTE] It's still ethically condemnable according to the codes of conduct we're expected to follow, so no dice. Doctors shouldn't advertise or endorse any form of shady products or even medicines.
About damn time.
I've disliked him ever since that "harmful amounts of arsenic in apple juice" stuff he was getting everyone scared about. [url]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dr-oz-slammed-over-apple-juice-arsenic-warning/[/url] He never specified the difference between inorganic and organic arsenic. He just said arsenic is in apple juice. Organic arsenic is in water, juices, and other things. Inorganic arsenic is the poisonous one.
So the green coffee bean is a lie?
So it turns out the great Oz is nothing more than a big talking head with no power to grant miracles at all. Any weight loss you had from his program was within your own power all along.
[QUOTE=Last or First;45146371]So it turns out the great Oz is nothing more than a big talking head with no power to grant miracles at all. Any weight loss you had from his program was within your own power all along.[/QUOTE] He's still a really qualified Doctor. The only thing is that he's definitely picking up and selling shit to make figures
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;45146514]He's still a really qualified Doctor. The only thing is that he's definitely picking up and selling shit to make figures[/QUOTE] There are qualified biologists preaching creationism. It's possible to be a master of the material but not apply it, or just lie for money. I do think that Dr. Oz means well most of the time but he lets the TV star bit go to his head.
He's not a doctor, but he plays one on TV!
[QUOTE=Mingebox;45147226]He's not a doctor, but he plays one on TV![/QUOTE] Pretty sure this is a reference to something but Dr.Oz is an actual renowned heart doctor/surgeon.
[QUOTE=OvB;45147311]Pretty sure this is a reference to something but Dr.Oz is an actual renowned heart doctor/surgeon.[/QUOTE] Has he ever transplanted the heart of Tin Woodsman by any chance?
[QUOTE=Mingebox;45147226]He's not a doctor, but he plays one on TV![/QUOTE] according to him, he created his TV show because he was fed up with all these common complaints with easy solutions people came to him with. When he's not filming, he's doing actual doctor shit.
Too bad it wasnt everyones other favourite doctor, Dr. Phil!
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;45145925]So the green coffee bean is a lie?[/QUOTE] At the very least it's not supported by research, so you can assume it's basically untested medication. Most other things in that state turned out to be potentially deadly scams, but at least this one likely won't turn out to have more side effects than coffee (which is still potentially a lot).
I hated this quack the first time I saw him. Some of his remedies are basically homeopathic, and work purely on placebo, and he makes grand claims about how it will fix your everything. Fuck that.
[QUOTE=OvB;45147311]Pretty sure this is a reference to something but Dr.Oz is an actual renowned heart doctor/surgeon.[/QUOTE] When he's peddling snake oil on TV, he might as well be an actor wearing a head mirror and white coat.
[video=youtube;-1jii8jFhQk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1jii8jFhQk[/video] summed up by doug stanhope
A while back he did a whole show on alternative medicine and topped it off with reiki, which, as we're all fairly aware, is 'energy medicine' and therefore completely nonsensical. Hardly a weight loss product, but still something a self-respecting doctor shouldn't be peddling.
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