The product, portrayed on the show as a weight loss tool, was found the have no weight loss benefits. Senator Claire McCaskill said Oz played a role, intentional or not, in perpetuating weight loss scams, and that she is "concerned that you are melding medical advice, news, and entertainment in a way that harms consumers".Īmong the episodes under scrutiny was a 2012 episode on 'green coffee bean extract'. In 2014, Oz found himself before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection to answer questions about the weight loss products he endorsed on his show. Titles of shows include 'Could Hidden Additives in Your Favorite No-Calorie Waters Make You Gain Weight?', 'Oz Investigates: Is the Athleisure Wear You Love the Reason You're Gaining Weight?', 'The Anti-Diet: The Plan for Weight Loss!' and 'Green Coffee Bean Extract: The Fat Burner That Works!'ĭr Oz at the Senate Subcommittee hearing. Oz's foray into conversion therapy was a surprise for regular viewers, but his touting of weight loss 'solutions' is not. Oz later said he agreed with the established medical consensus - that conversion therapy does not work - but many considered his statement too little too late. Oz himself never weighed in, and the audience was misled to believe that there are actual experts on both sides of this issue," The Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) said in a statement. "Although the show also featured guests who condemned the idea and practice of 'reparative therapy', Dr. The episode debated the merits of conversion therapy, which advocates said misled viewers by putting those for and against conversion therapy, which has no scientific backing and has been proven as ineffective and dangerous, on the same footing. In 2012, he was criticised by advocacy groups for platforming supporters of gay conversion therapy in an episode titled "From Gay to Straight? The Controversial Therapy!" It's remained immensely popular, through dozens of controversies, constant criticism, lawsuits and Oz being hauled before US Congress.Ī 2014 study published in the British Medical Journal analysed 40 episodes of The Dr Oz Show from 2013, determining that evidence supported 46 per cent, contradicted 15 per cent and was not found for 39 per cent of the show's recommendations.
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