By Rich Kozlovich
As anyone who stays on top of the news, at least as much as possible, I found Trump's endorsement of Dr. Oz mind boggling. Of course my views were already set because I know what a loon he is based on the loony stuff he promoted on his television show. And history is everything! History is the paved pathway leading to the stepping stones to the future. And my level of trust for Ole Doc Oz is so low if he told me day was
light and night was dark, I'd have to to outside to see for myself.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 I published a piece entitled, More Lunacy in the Land of Oz. Let's face it, I think Ole Doc Oz is a loon. I have thought that for some time. In
the beginning he had some interesting things to say, but after a while I
began to realize he was practically talking out of the play book of the
“all natural” crowd. All of which is based on horsepucky, speculation, lies and scare mongering. Organic isn’t healthier, it doesn’t taste better and doesn’t deliver more nutrition. However;
organic is more expensive, still uses pesticides and is the source of
diseases such as E. coli and Salmonella far more often than produce
grown conventionally. His claim is that pesticides, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, is the greatest threat to our children.
Here's reality. The greatest threat to our children's health are scaremongering MD celebrities and the PhD’s from academia, green activists and the insane politicians who promote and support them.
Sri Lanka shows what happens when we follow radical environmentalist principles - By Andrea Widburg - Sri Lanka is facing agricultural collapse, which is a disaster in a
nation that has only recently raised itself out of poverty...thanks to
its agricultural growth. The cause is the outgoing government's
decision to follow the environmentalist path and use only natural
fertilizer. Meanwhile, here in America, Samantha Power, who is the
administrator of the United States Agency for International Development,
is pleased that the War in Ukraine is stopping the flow of fertilizer
from Russia, allowing the world to go organic.
On January 10, 2019 Alex Berezow published this piece, Dr. Oz Preys on Gullible Americans in His Modern-Day Medicine Show, asking:
Why are charlatans like Dr. Oz so popular? As of 2014, America's Quack had promoted no fewer than
16 different weight loss miracles. (Who knows how many he's peddled by now?!) Obviously, his advice isn't working. People are fat and getting fatter.
Dr. Oz isn't a new phenomenon. In the mid-19th Century, traveling
medicine shows became all the rage. As described by the website
Legends of America,
medicine shows were like "a small traveling circus, complete with
vaudeville-style entertainment" and various "magic tricks." Of course,
they also had something to sell, usually an elixir that would solve a
variety of medical problems.
Today, we may laugh at how gullible we once were. But have we really
changed? Dr. Oz, who remains popular despite offering "medical" advice
with
little to no basis in scientific fact,
is the modern-day equivalent of the traveling medicine show. What
explains the centuries-long persistence of snake oil salesmen in
America?
In case anyone still had any lingering reservations about Dr. Oz's quack
status, he removed all doubt in his recent endorsement of astrology. Just to clarify, that would be astrology, not astronomy. The latter is a
real science that studies the universe; the former is what fortune
tellers and tabloid newspapers use to dupe gullible people into buying
their products. It's not even fair to call astrology "junk science" or
"pseudoscience," because that implies astrology is at least based on
something resembling science. But it is not. It is unadulterated
charlatanism. The positions of Jupiter and Venus in the night sky have
absolutely no relevance to your life -- unless you own a telescope.
As of 2014, he had advocated for
at least 16 different miraculous weight loss regimens. Additionally, according to
Forbes,
Dr. Oz talks to the dead, says that 200 orgasms per year will extend a
person's life by six years, endorses Reiki healing, and claims that his
wife and kids use homeopathy.
Back to Trump endorsing Ole Doc Oz. This isn't the first time he's promoted him. Alex Berezow writes in May of 2018,
President Trump, announced plans to appoint this quack to the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and
Nutrition, saying, "This is an abomination to the biomedical science community."
Want to end anxiety?
Stop eating grapefruit! But not just grapefruit. Stop eating chickpeas, dark chocolate, quinoa, chamomile,
avocado, salmon, oranges, and that pumpkin seeds, edamame and kefir will cure your mental illness. Then there's his take on
green coffee.
A paper that appeared in 2012 in Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and
Obesity: Targets and Therapy claimed that consumption of green coffee
bean extract caused overweight people to lose a substantial amount of
weight, even without any changes in their diet or exercise
routine......Dr. Oz became enamoured with the product. So much so that
the show could have been renamed “The Buy GCA and You Will Turn Into
Brad Pitt Show.”
Dr. Oz got ripped to shreds by Senator Claire McCaskill in a
congressional hearing on the safety of dietary supplements. Also, ACSH’s Dr.
Josh Bloom had a few unflattering things to say about this unseemly incident
on Science 2.0. It turned out that the data from India
was made up, and Vinson and Burnham withdrew their paper, as reported by Retraction Watch.
Then there's apples. Apples are bad. At least to Ole Doc Oz, because there's arsenic in apples. Arsenic is bad, ergo, apples are bad. Bad, bad I tell you!
Well, that's called the fallacy of composition, because it appears medical science doesn't understand chemistry very well, or at least in the case of Old Doc Oz because he did "not distinguished between organic and inorganic
arsenic — an important distinction, because organic arsenic is
considered to be non-toxic". It turns out real scientists view Old Doc Oz’s report as “irresponsible and misleading” for creating hype and fear around a
perfectly safe product."
How is it possible he didn't know that chemical distinction? He's a loon and maybe not the brightest pebble in the brook? Or maybe his just corrupt? Just a thought.
I have felt for a long time that Dr. Oz is a loon. That doesn’t mean that he isn’t presenting some valid information.
However, just because there is something of value there doesn’t give
them a pass on stuff in which he has no expertise and being a doctor
doesn’t make anyone an expert on everything. All of that is what I call
the “He made the trains run on time” fallacy.
An old German guy used to
tell me that Hitler was a great man because he made the trains run on
time. Just because Hitler made the trains run on time didn’t give him a
pass on the rest of life. And as far as I am concerned that applies to
these TV doctors who can only stay on the air and make all of that
lovely, lovely money by maintaining an audience. That means they have to
entertain as well as inform. Part of being entertaining is being
outrageous, and then they lend themselves to outrageous scare mongering.
In my article,
More Lunacy in the Land of Oz I go over many of his false accusations and statements, including organic farming and pesticide residues on food, making absolutely provably false claims he has to know are false, which leaves the question is it Dr. Oz, or Dr Ooze? One thing we can conclude it isn't Dr. Trustworthy.
So, what's all this past information about? To lay foundation to address the issue of Dr. Oz and trust, and clarity of thought.
He seems to think Old Mitch has done
wonderful things. Really? And so can we assume if he's elected as a Senator from Pennsylvania he's stand with Mitch McConnell as leader of the Senate? Could be!
Then we have this issue with Oz having dual citizenship with Turkey.
"Oz drew attention to his
Turkish citizenship after he
said he
would forego certain security clearances, if elected, to maintain his
status with Turkey. However, after facing backlash for those comments,
Oz later
pledged to revoke his Turkish citizenship if he won the election in November."
Overall, his statements about why he's
maintained this dual citizenship over all these years are really shaky. According to him he only maintains it to take care of his elderly mother in Turkey. Really?
In light of Oz’s service in the Turkish military, his endorsement deal
with Turkish Airlines, his Turkish real estate portfolio, and his vote
in Turkey’s most recent presidential election, scholars are speculating
that his mother’s health may not be the true reason he maintains his
citizenship in the country...........
Oz could be considered a foreign agent of Turkey, according to an advocacy
group that
recently called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Oz for
a possible violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act for his
work with Turkish government-backed Turkish Airlines.
So, this really all comes down to an issue of trust, and as Carla Sands noted, “Mehmet Oz doesn’t share our values. Not only is he not from
Pennsylvania, and we all know it, but he’s never been America First. He’s been Turkey first. He served in the Turkish military.” And it appears that's the thinking among many in Pennsylvania as
Mehmet Oz was booed at Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
And now we have a major upset in the making. One of my correspondents noted in the past the Republican party in Pennsylvania is a mess promoting globalist candidates like McCormick. But now it appears there's a potentially Trump like 2016 election wave occurring in Pennsylvania.
Kathy Barnette, a real MAGA anti-abortion conservative is a largely unknown, has a momentum building in Pennsylvania. Is it real?
While Trump endorsed Oz, which I think is an ill thought out and ultimately wasted endorsement on Trump's part, a new poll of the state’s GOP Senate primary suggests her momentum really is building.
Barnette, who is essentially in a three-person race with Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick, gained notoriety recently after she turned in a viral debate performance.
Some of her noteworthy moments included calling both Oz and McCormick
out for being associated with the World Economic Forum, perhaps the most
disturbing globalist organization on the planet. She also hit Oz on his
long history of holding pro-abortion views.
Update 5/11/22:
Update 5/12/22
As of May 9 Old Doc Oz was still in the lead, just barely, but even with such an incredible small margin, that really amazes me, but I find most people have minds filled with mush so it shouldn't. But it still all comes down to history and trust.
Based on his history we still have to come back to this question: Is it Dr. Oz, or Dr Ooze? But he's not Dr. Trustworthy!
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