We can thank Oprah for this guy (and Dr Phil)

‘The Scientific Community Is Almost Monolithic Against You’: When Dr. Oz Went to the Senate
The TV doctor's campaign is all the buzz right now. He might not want to talk about it, but he's been there before.
IAN WARD

On a hot summer morning in June of 2014, Mehmet Oz, M.D. — or, as he is known to millions of adoring fans around the country, Dr. Oz — arrived on Capitol Hill ready to play the victim. Oz had been invited to Washington to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance during a hearing on false advertising in the diet and weight-loss industry. He presented his role clearly: As the victim of unscrupulous advertisers’ vicious attempts to twist his words to sell diet pills, he was perfectly positioned to help Congress curb the tide of deceptive advertising.

There was only one problem with the doctor’s plan. Inside the hearing room, the members of the subcommittee had cast him in a different role: not as the victim of scheming fraudsters but as the fraudster himself.

For the duration of the hour-long hearing, members of the subcommittee lined up one after the next to grill “America’s Doctor” for statements he made on “The Dr. Oz Show,” his daytime cable program on health and wellness, laying into him for his endorsements of the miraculous powers of green coffee extract and the fat-burning magic of raspberry ketone. From his spot behind the witness table, Oz refused to back down. He brandished print-outs of scientific studies to defend his statements about ...

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