Welcome back, pilgrims! It's good to see you've returned to your old friend the Snake Oil Bulletin, the weekly compendium of the latest horsepuckey to plop itself right here on our beloved interwebs. Now normally we focus on a smattering of stories to whet your woo woo whistle, but this week we've decided that special devotion should be reserved for a brave, beleaguered hero, that duke of duplicitous drivel, Dr. Mehmet Oz, MD (Malarkey Dipshit). Dr. Oz has had quite the adventure over the past year, but as you'll soon see, it takes a lot to keep a poppycock peddler down.
Here's something: once I noticed Tulsa's Deputy (sic) Robert Bates all during his teevee apology/warning was getting multiple massages and deep tissue rubbings from several stony-faced women I can now never unsee it. Even when I close my eyes.
I actually own one; found it an an antique store years ago. It's four flights down and a long block (avenue) walk to the nearest laundromat, then back home & back up the four flights. And lots and lots of quarters. And there's always something nasty in those dryers. Thus, I use a little plastic device called a laundry pod (which is a vast improvement on washing entirely by hand), then LITERALLY (not figuratively) put my clothing through the wringer before hanging it up to dry in the living room (newspaper on the floor to catch any wayward drips).
I'd be more comfortable condemning Dr. Oz if I had any faith in the "Men of Science" that have fingered him. I long ago realized that all American medicine subscribes to the specific scientific method that "whoever gives me the most money just proved my theory". I think I'll have better health if I stay away from both Dr. Oz and his critics.
That's a whole other can of worms. I read two definitive scientific articles yesterday, one saying wheat was definitely bad for you and the other that it was definitely good for you. I went out a got drunk and felt better.
Never commented yet, but I'll just weigh in on the subject of reiki, which my mom was into for a bit several years back.
I don't know what kind of hokey these people are doing, but the reiki my mom was involved in was very much about actual physical contact. And energy-transfer and stuff, which I didn't understand, but it worked for her so hey.
G-d created the entire universe just 50 milliseconds ago, but He made it with long streams of photons leading to the edge of the observable universe so it would look like it's billions of years old and filled our brains with memories of things we never actually did. How's that for unfalsifiable horse shit! Can I haz tax free status and lots of munniez?
Qi is just the Chinese version of elan vital or life force, and is complete bullshit. Acupuncture is thought to work (when it does) by stimulating the release of endogenous opioids in the body, but may just be a placebo. Reiki, or its western cousin therapeutic touch, is definitely bullshit, and nothing but a placebo, at best, as shown by Emily Rosa, the youngest person ever to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal.
you need to add a few more zeros to that few million.
You nailed it in regards to Columbia University. They'd never let a cash cow, a golden goose, go.
At least Dr. Oz's daughter Daphne is not a nut job like her father.
Here's something: once I noticed Tulsa's Deputy (sic) Robert Bates all during his teevee apology/warning was getting multiple massages and deep tissue rubbings from several stony-faced women I can now never unsee it. Even when I close my eyes.
So - what sort of berries should I grind up in my health smoothies now? Frankenberries, Boo Berries, or Crunch Berries?
I actually own one; found it an an antique store years ago. It's four flights down and a long block (avenue) walk to the nearest laundromat, then back home & back up the four flights. And lots and lots of quarters. And there's always something nasty in those dryers. Thus, I use a little plastic device called a laundry pod (which is a vast improvement on washing entirely by hand), then LITERALLY (not figuratively) put my clothing through the wringer before hanging it up to dry in the living room (newspaper on the floor to catch any wayward drips).
I'd be more comfortable condemning Dr. Oz if I had any faith in the "Men of Science" that have fingered him. I long ago realized that all American medicine subscribes to the specific scientific method that "whoever gives me the most money just proved my theory". I think I'll have better health if I stay away from both Dr. Oz and his critics.
I don't know if he's good or bad but you are getting points for "mendacious mountebank".
That's a whole other can of worms. I read two definitive scientific articles yesterday, one saying wheat was definitely bad for you and the other that it was definitely good for you. I went out a got drunk and felt better.
Everything is possible.
Rule 34. Just please wear a rubber. Reduces your conductance.
Call a doctor. I hear Dr. Oz is available.
Never commented yet, but I'll just weigh in on the subject of reiki, which my mom was into for a bit several years back.
I don't know what kind of hokey these people are doing, but the reiki my mom was involved in was very much about actual physical contact. And energy-transfer and stuff, which I didn't understand, but it worked for her so hey.
Just sayin'.
Dr. Oz does not believe a word of what he says. The important thing is that he wants you to and send him all your monez.
G-d created the entire universe just 50 milliseconds ago, but He made it with long streams of photons leading to the edge of the observable universe so it would look like it's billions of years old and filled our brains with memories of things we never actually did. How's that for unfalsifiable horse shit! Can I haz tax free status and lots of munniez?
Qi is just the Chinese version of elan vital or life force, and is complete bullshit. Acupuncture is thought to work (when it does) by stimulating the release of endogenous opioids in the body, but may just be a placebo. Reiki, or its western cousin therapeutic touch, is definitely bullshit, and nothing but a placebo, at best, as shown by Emily Rosa, the youngest person ever to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal.
Weren't "asthma cigarettes" marijuana?