Earlier this year, Dr. Oz — everyone’s favorite TV doctor who isn’t named Phil or wasn’t a former contestant on The Bachelor — was shredded by some members of a Senate committee who criticized Oz the Great and Doctorful for using terms like “magic weight-loss solution” and “number one miracle” for products with little evidence of being magical miracles. Now a new study looking at Dr. Oz’s on-air recommendations should give consumers to be even more skeptical of the products he mentions.
The study, published last week in The BMJ, looked at 40 episodes of Dr. Oz from 2013 and investigated each of the recommendations made by the host during these shows.
Of the 80 recommendations from these episodes, researchers could only find evidence to support 46% of them. That doesn’t mean the claims are true; just that there is at least one piece of qualifying scientific evidence to support what Oz said on the air.
Interestingly, in 15% of the recommendations studied, the evidence actually contradicted Dr. Oz’s televised claims.
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7 comments:
I am surprised Oz is correct that often. Oz simply panders to the anti-vaccine, anti-gmo, anti-science fools.
No, Oz panders to anything that will make money for him.
I am surprised and doubt that it is that high.
It's only that high because the settled science of health is just as settled as the settled science of climate change.
In other words you can claim what you want because nobody really knows anything. The so called experts just make this stuff up as they go along. To much big money out there in TV world.
Who cares. The 99% are idiots anyway.
His claims can be cross referenced on internet sites.The more references one can find to validate any particular claim he makes the more likely it is to be true.
Anti vaccine, anti GMO, sounds like common sense to me . Wake up sheeple. I don't care who advocates the truth.
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