Dr. Oz and My ‘Aha Moment’ on Oprah’s Quackery

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With one of Oprah’s more dangerous celebrity creations running for Senate, realNYMarg writes that she can’t avoid reckoning with Oprah's penchant for promoting pseudoscience

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photos: Getty Images If you need any further proof that The Secret is B.S., here it is: Dr. Mehmet Oz running for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania was most definitely not on my vision board.

Oprah fandom was thrust upon me at a young age. Like millions of American women, my mom was a big Oprah fan, so watching her daytime show was part of my after-school routine throughout the ‘90s. In many ways I’m thankful for that; messages promoted on her show had a significant positive impact on me and various other women in my life.

Perhaps more than any other single American, she is responsible for giving national platforms and legitimacy to all sorts of magical thinking, from pseudoscientific to purely mystical, fantasies about extraterrestrials, paranormal experience, satanic cults, and more.

 

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realNYMarg Yeah sure, blame the first female black billionaire. The mountains she had to climb for that accomplishment. And continue to ignore the fact that these Cis white men are out here acting up and taking advantage of trusting humans. sameasiteverwas

realNYMarg She also helped launch Dr Phil (not a real Dr but hey he has at least 7 lawsuits). Same audience that feeds off the troubled teen narrative machine are likely to shout down teachers at PTA meetings over CRT &/or mask mandates. Just saying.

realNYMarg I have yet to find a female friend not into at least one type of anti-science/anti-logic woo. And have never had a single male friend—EVER—make a single reference to 'letting the universe decide' who wasn't saying it (rightly so) with full derision. We drive me nuts that way. 🙄

realNYMarg Wtf is pseudoscience? Science is based on facts and the scientific method. Everything else is just bs

realNYMarg I use to love her. Now, I am sort of done with her.

realNYMarg I’m voting for Dr Oz .. he is smart and I’m sure will lead the party to a victory. Go Dr Oz !!!

realNYMarg Her ambush of the royal family I felt was totally uncalled for. There are always two sides to every story and we only got Meghan and Harry’s. It’s obvious M got what she wanted, which is to be very rich and influential.

realNYMarg Ugh Oprah.

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