Dr oz is no wizard but no quack either

[longship]

89. Okay, let me chop down your straw men.

Nobody ever implied that science is fool proof or an end all. Only a fool, or somebody erecting a straw man, would suggest that. But science is self-correcting if one follows it. When one ignores it, one gets rubbish like DSHEA, and today's quackery of the supplement market, which is positively rampant with ineffective and unsafe treatments, because they are tested for neither!

The ineffective and unsafe pharma are also a result of laxness in regulations. Drug testing is full of places where studies can slip through peer review. I won't get into the details, but a lot of that could be helped if, for instance, all human trial results were mandated to be published publicly. If you register a trial, you have to publish it. No more file drawer studies. That would do a lot, but it is just a start.

You see, science-based medicine recognizes the problems. But it is a rather tough job fighting both the kook wacko quacks of the AltMed crowd, and simultaneously the lax regulations of medicine in practice and those screeching about it (the latter who are often the same folks promoting the AltMed wacko loons, like Dr. Oz.)

Still, one soldiers on.

My regards to you.