Reality TV star Mehmet Öz, MD testified before a Senate committee last week about fraudulent weight loss scams. He knows all about it; he’s been promoting the likes of green coffee bean extract, Garcinia Cambogia, forskolin, and gluten-free everything for years, when he’s not endorsing faith healing and homeopathy.
Has he no shame? Nope.
More:
“Senators to Dr. Oz: Stop Promising Weight-Loss Miracles,” James Hamblin, The Atlantic
“Dr. Oz, still shilling as fast as he can,” Michael Hilzik, Los Angeles Times
“Celebrity turns a good doctor into a snake oil pitchman,” Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News
“Dr. Oz Defends His ‘Miracles,'” National Journal
“Dr. Oz Defends His Pseudoscientific Claims As Harmless ‘Flowery Language,'” Francie Diep, Popular Science
“Dr. Oz: World’s Best Snake Oil Salesman,” Russell Saunders, Daily Beast
“It’s Time to Turn Off TV Doctors,” April Siese, Daily Beast
“The Operator,” Michael Spector, The New Yorker
“Why Dr. Oz can say anything and keep his medical license,” Julia Belluz, Vox
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