In 2013, he defended his approach as a matter of science itself being subjective: “You find the arguments that support your data,” he said, “and it’s my fact versus your fact.” A British Medical Journal study of medical claims made on his show found in 2014 that half were baseless. He has provided a platform to “debate” the merits of conversion therapy and to Robert Kennedy Jr.’s conspiracy theories about vaccines and autism. Oz Show, where he swiftly began to peddle medical falsehoods and exaggerations. In 2009, Oprah’s production company bankrolled the launch of The Dr. Oz and why he makes such a lousy fit for Jeopardy! A trained cardiologist, he rose to national fame as a health expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the mid-aughts, when he made a habit of hawking dubious, and sometimes outright offensive, remedies. (2010 alum)- Dr Robert Kennedy February 3, 2021
"Oh no sorry, the answer is eucalyptus oil" "This substance was discovered in 1928 as a way to treat common infections."
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“When you’ve made your career in the popular media by at best conveying confidence in unproven remedies-and at worst implicitly causing your audience to doubt the process the rest of us live by and have been at wit’s end trying to defend for a full calendar year-I’m not sure a show based around facts is the best place for you.” “Science is really a verb-not a noun,” says Lindsey Shultz, a four-game winner from 2019 who works as a public health analyst. Oz to stand behind Alex Trebek’s podium is profoundly disrespectful of Alex and of everything Alex loved about the show.”
Oz fucking sucks and so does the decision to let this crackpot host our beloved Jeopardy!” “One word … WHY,” wrote another. Hours after the news broke, I put out a call for former contestants to reach out with their thoughts on the host candidates by Wednesday morning, dozens of responses had come pouring into my inbox.
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