By Rich Kozlovich
Trump picked RFK, Jr. as the the Secretary of Health and Human Services which I thought that was nuts and said so, a lot! What I've been shocked at is the number of conservative writers, that I normally have a great deal of respect for, who've come out swinging in his favor. Here's the reality of RFK, Jr. He's a lunatic. But now it's worse. Now Trump has picked another lunatic to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He's chosen the Weirdness of Oz.
For years I've written about and posted articles about this quack who endorses astrology, and pushes quack remedies such as eating grapefruit to cure anxiety. He pushed a green coffee cure that was pure fiction, and in spite of all his snake oil sales pitches he headed up a very popular TV show that was more like an old time traveling medicine show preying on gullible Americans.
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.
But this appointment isn't the beginning of the Trump/Oz story, that stared in 2018, where "the Trump Administration announced its plan to appoint America's Quack
to the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition. This is an
abomination to the biomedical science community."
Dr. Oz claims he can talk to the dead, promotes Reiki healing, and homeopathy, is an anti-vaxer, and has promoted quantum healing, which is as voodoo as it comes:
Quantum healing is a pseudoscientific alternative medicine practice that claims to use quantum mechanics, psychology, philosophy, and neurophysiology to improve health and well-being. It's based on the idea that quantum phenomena, such as wave-particle duality and virtual particles, govern health.
When I read this stuff it reminds me of the claptrap about the honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder issue. One lady insisted the reason there was a problem with honey bees was because the Devic Kingdom of bees was really unhappy with people. She said she was in communication with them and they weren't going to return their hives until people started treating them better, and got rid of genetically modified plants. Isn't it fortunate bees can speak English? And according to her their solution, since they were no longer going to return to their hives any longer, was suicide.
In 2014 Senator Claire McCaskill ripped into Oz over his ineffective dietary supplements, which American Council on Science and Health's Josh Bloom explains in this Science 2.0 piece entitled “The Lizard of Oz Takes His Own Medicine.”
He started a crusade against apples with Consumer Reports claiming "that about 10 percent of the samples of apple and grape juice that they tested had levels of arsenic exceeding federal standards for drinking water." There was a problem with that:
There's a massive difference "between between organic and inorganic arsenic"an important distinction, because organic arsenic is considered to be non-toxic. The FDA responded with a statement explaining that most of the arsenic in apple juice comes in the harmless organic form; the agency and other experts called Dr. Oz’s report “irresponsible and misleading” for creating hype and fear around a perfectly safe product…….
And as far as I am concerned that applies to all 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 this article, Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, ACSH s Dr. Josh Bloom adds:
Dr. Oz should follow the yellow brick road back to the cardiac surgery department at New York Presbyterian Hospital. At least he knows what he's talking about there. Kudos, however, to ABC News Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Bessor, who publicly confronted Dr. Oz about his latest claims. He compared Dr. Oz s apple juice scare to yelling fire in a movie theater, noting that there was no truth to the doctor s irresponsible allegations.
He finally went all the way over to the dark side warning “parents that the apple juice they’re giving their children may be harmful.” His show staff, crack toxicologists all I’m sure, “arranged to have several samples of store-bought apple juice tested for arsenic, and found that the arsenic levels in some brands were higher than others.”
Apparently the man from Oz decided that the level was too high and dangerous in spite of the fact that the amounts were “minuscule”. The FDA immediately refuted this piece of junk science noting that there was a difference between organic and non-organic arsenic, and organic arsenic is harmless. Why didn’t Ole Doc Oz know this? Who knows what kind of damage he has done to the apple industry.
He presents himself as a medical
scientist doesn’t he? Why was he investigating arsenic in apple juice in
the first place? What events took place that caused this concern? Is
there a connection between Ole Doc Oz and the insane activists that
infest the green movement?
Perhaps he and his producers concluded the same thing and decided they needed him to jazz up his presentations. As I would see parts of some of his shows it became obvious to me that he was pretty much selling the same kind of junk science and scare mongering as the organics, the greenies and the all natural crowd.
I know most have no recollection of the Alar scare story,
but this is the same kind of fallacious scare mongering that went on
back then. The only difference is now we have the internet with
experts who can debunk these lunatics. Now Oz went so far off base he
was finally caught because he ventured into the realms of
provable science, and in those realms he is lost.
Perhaps what disturbs me a bit is that those who know me best know that I
am fascinated by everything. Being insatiably curious is its own reward
and its own punishment. The reward is that you know the truth. The
punishment is that you know the truth. My friends also know that I
understand it all because I read extensively over these issues, and I
read both sides, so when I finally come to a conclusion about
something I am very rarely wrong. So why do they disagree with me over
a whack job like Oz? Because he’s
so nice! Then again isn’t that true of all cult leaders.
What I would have really liked to have seen the nation’s apple farmers sue him
for any drop in the sale of apples, whether it is for eating, for juice
or any other use. Perhaps this kind of claptrap would end if this was
done on a regular basis. Oprah was the one responsible for getting him
on the air in the first place. Oprah was sued years ago over her
comments about beef, and even though she won, she never did that again.
Dr. Phil was one of the ones who helped her win this case. I have come
to think he is a loon also. My wife says that I think everyone is a
loon. Once again, no I don’t, it’s just that I can’t help it when there
are so many loons out there and so little time to point it out.
And now Trump has chosen Herschel Walker to be in charge of missile defense. Listen up Donny, this is nuts, what's wrong with you? These appointments puts all your appointments in jeopardy.
Update: Is Burgum the Right Choice for Interior Secretary and Energy Czar? his views on issues important to conservatives and his many constituents make his choice extremely questionable.......the COVID plandemic, January 6, China, zero carbon, carbon dioxide capture, and land grabs....... financed and promoted a tracking app as part of a public-private partnership between the North Dakota Department of Health and ProudCrowd. He imposed strict masking rules, penalizing violators up to $1,000. Restaurants were limited to 50% of capacity, bars had to close at 10 p.m., and sports and recreation at schools were suspended, though championship contests and performance events were allowed to continue.......make his choice extremely questionable.....
I find all this to be very strange, and that's being kind. What is wrong with Trump?
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