Dr. Oz is giving people an alternative to Western medicine, says Mike Downey. He's like coming up with these sort of like studies that don't exist and if they do, he's not citing them or whatever. And then he's building giant fabric colons for a TV set and like flames of green coffee beans and whatever. That study doesn't exist. It's not even making you smarter because it didn't even happen. So we're gonna do a sort of distilled version of this. Do you want to play Dr. Oz? I'll be Claire McCaskill.
This week we're dissecting "America's Doctor." How did a smart, hardworking surgeon become one of TV's leading purveyors of junk science? Along the way we debunk green coffee bean extract, raspberry ketones, conversion therapy (!) and a salad dressing skincare regimen.
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