Dr. Oz Senate Hearing / Senate Panel Rips Dr. Oz a New One for Lying to Your Fat Face

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He's studying how much the manufacturers will pay him to promote it.


This is not unlike many "news at 6" segments. Much local news in the US consists of paid ads disguised as news stories. Once you know that, you start seeing them all of the time.

As for McCaskill... that's one fit ass chick. If anyone knows anything about dieting and fitness, it would be her. She wants to win a dick measuring contest with Dr. Oz because she knows she can't win a BMI contest.
 
He's studying how much the manufacturers will pay him to promote it.

I thought I read that he doesn't receive payment for recommending the supplements on the show.

Claire McCaskill on the other hand, received $109,000 from lobbyist groups/PACs affiliated with prescription drug retailer Express Scripts.

Funny how she didn't mention this...
 
What in hell does Senatry McCaskills policies, background or reputation have to do with the fact that she asked exactly the right questions and placed the blame at the one who is the biggest scammer in the diet industry?
 
What in hell does Senatry McCaskills policies, background or reputation have to do with the fact that she asked exactly the right questions and placed the blame at the one who is the biggest scammer in the diet industry?

She has received money from companies who would love to shut the entire nutritional supplement industry down (for their own gain by making everything prescription), and you don't see the conflict of interest there? Of course it's an issue.
 
She has received money from companies who would love to shut the entire nutritional supplement industry down (for their own gain by making everything prescription), and you don't see the conflict of interest there? Of course it's an issue.

She asked the question that everyone should have been asking of this numbskull for years, which is what the fuck is a medical doctor doing going on TV promoting shit that is totally unproven and using words like 'Miracle' and 'Literally Melt Fat'. She even owned him on the so called "clinical trials" he tried to cite as part of the 'extensive research' he did.

What does a conflict of interest have anything to do with the fact that the woman asked the right questions? One thing doesn't follow the other.

Whether she had a right to ask the questions or not doesn't change the fact that the questions were totally valid and needed to be asked.

Fucking circular logic.
 
the questions... needed to be asked.

That's debatable. I'm not under the misconception that licensure magically makes the licensed practitioner knowledgeable or trustworthy. But then again, I'm not in Oz's target market: overweight, emotional females.

I'm the precise opposite: I'm a logical, rational male who understands the power of incentives and disincentives.

To be clear, I'm not an advocate of fraud. Less fraud is always better than more. But politicians going after charlatans was funny yesterday and will be funny until the day I die.

It's like a child rapist pointing the finger at another child rapist and proclaiming, "He's raping kids!" The accusation is valid. And fewer raped kids will always be better than more. But the scene would still be silly and make me chuckle.


what the fuck is a medical doctor doing going on TV promoting shit that is totally unproven and using words like 'Miracle' and 'Literally Melt Fat'.

Is that a trick question?
 
the questions were totally valid and needed to be asked.

Sure about that? It required a Senate hearing?

I don't know, but when I'm flipping through the channels, and see some guy with the excitement and energy of a 3 year old on a talk show, letting me know how amazing this new tea leaf is and how it will increase my IQ by 50, I generally know not to jump to the phone to place an order.

Maybe some people out there are really that stupid, but I would hardly say that requires government intervention.
 
Sure about that? It required a Senate hearing?

I don't know, but when I'm flipping through the channels, and see some guy with the excitement and energy of a 3 year old on a talk show, letting me know how amazing this new tea leaf is and how it will increase my IQ by 50, I generally know not to jump to the phone to place an order.

Maybe some people out there are really that stupid, but I would hardly say that requires government intervention.

You get me wrong, I am not saying that there should be any government intervention, but when this prick is going out doing 'exposes' on companies who are just selling off the back off the bullshit he himself has spouted and also trying to lobby and change laws then its great when someone takes him down a notch or two and expose him as the charlatan that he really is.

There are very few companies at the moment saying that doctor Oz actually endorses their product or is a partner in their business, but very many are playing a video of him from his show. This is what he is raging about, the use of his intellectual property, and not trying to protect his viewers or the public.

Fact is he did say those things and he is the one who is full of shit. He put the shit out there, so my opinion is that he has no right to rage about it, its not like people are editing and slicing the videos, it is exactly what he said.

Yes, people are very stupid for listening to this quack in the first place, however thats the general populous for you. Do they need protecting, in my opinion no, survival of the fittest (smartest), but if you are going to spend a shit ton of money trying to bring down an industry based on horse shit (like the government/FTC is trying to do) you may as well go after the source. And that horse is Dr Oz.
 
ITT: People selling

1 WEIRD TRICK TO GET YOUR EX BACK
1 STRANGE TIP TO LOSE 425 POUNDS
1 PECULIAR HINT TO RUSTLE 7 JIMMIES

complain about false advertising on TV

Good job bros