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Green coffee beans give science a black eye

20 Mar 2017

Dr. Oz听听didn鈥檛 mince his words when he described the wondrous effects of green coffee bean extract. 鈥淢agical,鈥 鈥渟taggering,鈥 an 鈥渦nprecedented discovery!鈥 鈥淔inally, a cure for obesity鈥 he...

Dr. Oz鈥檚 Questionable Wizardry

20 Mar 2017

Miracles are pretty rare events. Except on television鈥檚 鈥淒r. Oz Show,鈥 where they appear with astonishing frequency. Oz of course doesn鈥檛 claim to raise the dead or part the Red Sea, but he does...

Dr. Oz鈥檚 鈥淭wo Day Holiday Detox鈥 should be flushed

20 Mar 2017

One would think that producers of the Dr. Oz show would pay at least a little attention to the widely publicized study that appeared in the British Medical Journal examining the health...

Phytoceramides

20 Mar 2017

鈥淎s seen on the Dr. Oz Show鈥 is a claim that is guaranteed to boost sales for any product. Like the 鈥減hytoceramides鈥 glorified by a couple of plastic surgeons on the show. Incorporated into dietary...

Dr. Michael Greger--What do we make of him?

20 Mar 2017

A while ago I came across videos by Dr. Michael Greger. I was impressed by his ability to produce these 3-4 minute features every day. The science was sound and the production values high. I...

Should we worry about arsenic in wine?

20 Mar 2017

A story about arsenic-laced wine is panicking a lot of people. It鈥檚 all about a lawsuit brought against the producers of some wines claiming they contain unsafe amounts of arsenic. As far as I can...

Niacin Bites the Dust

20 Mar 2017

It's frustrating, but most scientific studies end with the line, "more research is needed." But not always. We have one of these rare cases in a study published in the New England Journal of...

Breast Cancer from Storing Phones in Bras?

20 Mar 2017

Yesterday Dr. Oz had a 21 year old woman as a guest who believes that keeping a cell phone in her bra for four years caused her breast cancer. Oz described that the location of the tumour...

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