I could never stand Dr. Phil

[tenderfoot]

another fraud foisted upon the nation courtesy of Oprah Winfrey. WTF is her appeal?

Link to tweet

Car accidents are not contagious.

Lung cancer is not contagious.

Drowning is not contagious.

[MLAA]

1. @sshole

[Drahthaardogs]

2. Always suspicious of PhD's who call themselves "Doctor"

Outside of academic setting or a professional one.

[Jake Stern]

13. My advisor in college held a PhD and HATED being called "Doctor"

He preferred to be addressed as Mr. Tyner.

[Lucky Luciano]

29. Dr Phil is not a PhD.

The only times PhDs do use the “doctor” term is in marketing pitches that show off the PhD staff, but yes - I agree, they usually feign a little humility by not using the title.

[Drahthaardogs]

40. Yes he is. PhD in psychology

But not a licensed therapist.

[Lucky Luciano]

41. You are correct.

Somehow I misremember looking him up years ago and only seeing masters degree.

[Drahthaardogs]

42. He is a moron

I work with a ton of PhD's and most of them only refer to themselves as Dr during presentations, etc.

[Takket]

3. Just imagine...

Being the orderly who bagged up someone’s mom or dad, and hauled the body down to a refrigerated semi trailer because there was no where else to put it, and you come home and turn it your TV, physically and emotionally exhausted, and see that.

[question everything]

4. Yes, did not know that he joined Fox

And, yes a part of the Ophraization of this country.

[CatMor]

5. Didn't know he is that stupid ...

another TV idiot spewing more nonsense. Does he and the other idiots on Fox mingle with people right now, bet not.

[msongs]

6. Dr. Shill - thank Oprah for making him a thing nt

[Jake Stern]

7. This is one of the reasons I shudder when someone mentions Oprah for president

She has foisted so many quacks and junk science on America that it's unforgivable. If there was New Age anything you can bet that Oprah had it on her show. She gave a platform to Jenny McCarthy to spew her anti-vax views virtually unchallenged.

A good article on her love affair with woo: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16868216/oprah-winfrey-pseudoscience

[tenderfoot]

16. Here's another good article...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers

BTW, she rose to fame shortly after Trump - I could never understand how or why and never will.

[lunasun]

24. Good read thanks for the link

[Cha]

8. OMG.. They're not Deathly Contagious, stupid dr phil.

how dumb is that? Just dumb enough to fool the cult?

[Skittles]

9. I don't understand her appeal either

phony

[tman]

10. Oprah is a fraud.

We need to get out of the culture of celebrity worship.

It brought us Trump.

[niyad]

11. Phil is a conman, a hypocrit, an adulterer. How many lawsuits about that phony diet.

What, exactly, is his degree in?

[William Seger]

31. PhD in clinical psychology

... which, as a medical science, is about on a par with leeching.

[jmowreader]

36. Come up with a better insult, please

Hirudotherapy - literally, leeching - is a fantastic treatment if you need to reestablish circulation to a transplanted or reattached body part.

What Dr. Phil does is somewhere on the quackery scale between chiropractic and homeopathy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Similarly they do not surge and overwhelm hospitals.

How do you treat the accident victims and cancer patients when hospitals are overwhelmed by a virus?

[Leghorn21]

14. A reply to this tweet:

“My friend caught an auto accident, didn't know he had it... brought it to work, and the receptionist caught it. 3 days later, she got ill. They sent everyone home but it was too late. 70 people at his job caught the auto accident from her and 10 ended up in the ICU on ventilators“


hell yeah

[SunSeeker]

32. LOL

[MontanaMama]

15. So Oprah unleashed Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil on America.

They’re both bed bug crazy. Is Oprah next?

[Rebl2]

37. I agree

I believe she is. Never understood her appeal.

[lpbk2713]

17. I never heard of anyone drowning in a crowded room.

What a maroon.

[lunasun]

18. Wow the whole Oprah factory is out today .I posted the other doctor Oz earlier trying the same crap

saying it’s okay for 2-3% of Americans to die, so that the economy gets restarted real soon.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213298846

Oh and Phil My friend in UK is getting 3 mos pay not 1200 only one time Plus NHS
why cant we have this for people struggling here ?
That’s right because of people like you and Oz Shills who ju$t can’t wait

[SunSeeker]

33. Yes, even the conservstive Tories gave the UK people 3 months pay for the Covid-19 crisis?

Last edited Fri Apr 17, 2020, 04:16 AM - Edit history (2)

80% of salary for three months, up to a maximum of $2,900/month. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/business/coronavirus-uk-pubs-wages/index.html

What kind of work does your friend do? How much is s/he getting per month?

[a la izquierda]

38. Yes, my partner is being paid to stay home.

Which I greatly appreciate since he works with the public.

[diva77]

19. slightly OT, but is he related to the "my pillow" guy?

I noticed that both are equally repugnant

[Under The Radar]

20. Placing blame because he can't do his show

And has lost money in the stock market.
So things never change, the wealthy are willing to sacrifice the commoners to keep their wealth.
It seems that more conservatives are voicing the same opinion since the reports of the deaths were more than 60% minorities.

[StevieM]

21. I have long disliked him. Now I have another reason to be disgusted by him. (eom)

[smirkymonkey]

22. He is such a fucking idiot.

What a joke. I am really starting to despise Oprah for bringing all these loathsome people into the American cultural consciousness.

[Phoenix61]

23. Interestingly, they do close the beach to

swimming to prevent drowning. They do it when there’s a strong rip tide or a lot of sharks or a hurricane creating insane waves.

[Tom Kitten]

25. The guy's a five star a$$hole

Never forgive him for exploiting mentally ill Shelley Duvall as some sort of lurid entertainment.
And yeah he reminds me of that wife beating crack head my pillow guy too. Not surprised he's going on the nazi lady's show now too.

[Blue Owl]

26. Had my fill of Dr. Phil long ago

[Hamlette]

27. we shut down swimming pools during the polio scare

or at least my parents wouldn't let me go swimming until we got the sugar cube.

[Prof.Higgins]

28. We deny smokers "rights" on airplanes, etc. and auto drivers "Right" to speed and pool

owners the "right" not to place childproof fences around their pools. How about global warming, McGraw? Should we give free reign to the free market economy "rights" of fossil fuels and other greedy corporations whose activities will make earth uninhabitable for humans?

I'm extremely disappointed that such an intelligent man doesn't see how much harm will be done by FoxNews viewers and the Trump cultists, who will use him as a poster boy to justify their own diabolical agendas and deadly actions.

[SunSeeker]

30. When did "Dr." Phil become a wing nut? He was made famous by Oprah.

I had no idea he was a right wing kook.

[progressoid]

34. 360,000 from swimming pools?

[standingtall]

43. There isn't either he misread some stats or he just

made that number up. About 3,500 people die each year due to accidental drowning and that not even specific to swimming pools. He was probably wrong on the rest of his numbers too.

[Solly Mack]

39. Doc Phil of shit musta got jealous that Doc oOze

was getting attention.

Barkers gotta bark the loudest.