In a lot of ways, it mimics the like medicine show stuff that we talked about during our snake oil, due to conversation, right? People like have been rightfully disappointed by Western medicine. And what he's doing is sort of like glomming on to this sort of vague, but not totally founded idea that there is like someone else is doing it better somewhere. It's riding the coattails of the genuine mistrust that folks have for understandable reasons often.
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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