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In reply to the discussion: Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says [View all]AikidoSoul
(2,150 posts)lobbyists and their shills... plus the doctors who promote drugs and receive
kickbacks. Add a bunch of politicians and you have the real whores we should worry about.
Oz does not receive kickbacks from any company and will not allow his name to be used to promote any substance whether it be a food, a therapy, vitamin, or whatever.
Many of his recommendations are spot on. I've read extensively for decades on the available, well respected research on many vitamins and foods. It's not hard to find substantive information from honorable institutions or individuals dedicated to finding the truth..... not paid whores for the chemical/pharmaceutical companies. And there are plenty of whores in that industry.
It completely amazes me how easily so many DUers cave to the industry funded and promoted ideas of what "real medicine" is. There is a real deficit of truly scientific thinking and knowledge on DU. It is the greatest flaw of this site.
You would think that the ads on tv for drugs would make you think about what is good and what is not. Too many drugs have terrible side effects. I laugh out loud when I hear them being rattled off in the background in the TV ads while we look at images of birds, butterflies, flowers, kissing and other "natural" things. The ads are trying to brainwash us to think that somehow these petrochemical and coal tar based drugs are "natural" instead of synthetically constructed chemical compounds.
I get horrific side effects from many drugs so I only take thyroid medication, but not the synthetic version because it makes me very ill. The female endocrinologist who prescribed it gets a kickback from the company that produces it. She refused to prescribe the natural versions of this which are porcine derived such as NatureThroid and Armour thyroid.
Dr. Oz is a very good guy. I hate to see his name denigrated on DU. His program has provided many examples of natural alternatives and healthy foods containing vitamins and minerals that specifically help prevent, and even cure disease.
Think of iodine. Calcium. Magnesium. CoQ10. Vitamin C. B-Complex, B-12, and many other vitamins that have prevented disease.
And for those of you who doubt that homeopathy works -- you are totally brainwashed and/or too narrow in your thinking to understand how it can work. Truth is you would have to have a deep knowledge of quantum physics to even begin to understand it's mysterious healing powers.
To say Oz is a whore is sickening, ad hominem BS. You should stick to political figures, the war industry and the chem / pharm industries to point your fingers at for being whores.
Oz is a highly respected heart surgeon with real capacity to open his mind and think about how many natural foods and vitamins are preferable to toxic drugs that kill thousands of people every year. Joseph Mercola is also an excellent source of very well documented information about disease, prevention of disease and even natural cures.
Please stop you ad hominem attacks on these good men.