Senators to Dr. Oz: Stop Promising Weight-Loss Miracles
I cant figure this out, Senator Claire McCaskill prompted Mehmet Oz yesterday, from halfway across a capacious hearing room. Her tone implied that, at least to some degree, she had figured it out.
That was the reason her subcommittee summoned Oz to Washington.
I get that you do a lot of good on your show. I understand that you give a lot of great information about health in a way thats easily understandable. Youre very talented, youre obviously very bright, and youve been trained in science-based medicine." Accolades piled up until a buckling of decorum was imminent.
"Now, here are three statements you made on your show."
McCaskill read Ozs words from past segments of The Dr. Oz Show back to him with a clinical formality that underscored their absurdity:
You may think magic is make-believe, but this little bean has scientists saying theyve found the magic weight loss cure for every body type: Its green coffee extract.
I've got the number-one miracle in a bottle to burn your fat: It's raspberry ketone.
Garcinia cambogia: It may be the simple solution youve been looking for to bust your body fat for good.
McCaskill continued, as if reproaching a child. I don't know why you need to say this stuff, because you know it's not true. Whywhen you have this amazing megaphone and this amazing ability to communicatewould you cheapen your show by saying things like that?
If I could disagree about whether they work or not, Oz contested, speaking quickly but betraying more diffidence than his face seems used to bearing, and I'll move on to the issue of the words that I used. ....."
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/magic-weight-loss-pills-may-not-exist/372958/?google_editors_picks=true
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I get so sick of all of these false claims to make money, do you??