Dr oz is no wizard but no quack either

[NickB79]

44. And even GIVING them a stage is called "false equivalency"

Just like FOX News does with global warming: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/11/false-equivalence-balance-media

As an institution, the American media seem to have decided that no superstition, stupidity, error in fact or Big Lie is too superstitious, stupid, wrong or evil to be disqualified from "balancing" an opposing … wadddyacallit? … fact. Because, otherwise, the truth might be cited as evidence of liberal bias.

Thus do the US media aid and abet Swiftboaters, 9/11 "Truthers", creationists and "Birthers", whose bizarre charge that the president was born overseas required us to believe a conspiracy involving hospital employees and Honolulu newspapers dating to infant Barack Hussein Obama's first day on earth.

Birthers are liars, morons, bigots or some combination of all three, yet, for four years, the press treated them as if they were worthy of consideration, dignifying their delusion by addressing it. Note the equivocating language from this Associated Press dispatch:

So-called "birthers" – who claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States – have grown more vocal recently on blogs and television news shows.

And THAT is precisely what Dr. Oz is doing whenever he allows quacks on his show. You don't defeat the Devil by debating him; you defeat him by turning your back on him, because no amount of facts and evidence is ever enough for some people. These nutjobs THRIVE on publicity, even bad publicity, and every minute they get in front of a camera gives them an opportunity to garner more followers.