Pic Of The Moment: Fox News Medical Advice

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Dr. Oz apologizes for suggesting it may ‘only cost us’ 2% to 3% of American lives to reopen schools

Dr Phil Downplays Pandemic, Incorrectly Claims 360,000 People Die Yearly In Swimming Pools

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[Ohiogal]

1. The Whackadoodle Duo

[wryter2000]

2. When did drowning become contagious?

n/t

[Fritz Walter]

23. About the same time that wind turbines started causing cancer

These two make snake-oil salemen look reputable!

[DENVERPOPS]

28. Dr. Phil

is just pulling ludicrous "alternate facts" out of his ass, just like Trump and all other RepubliCONS have done for the past three years.

In a way, this is great, because those of us sane ones now know where these "celebrity" clowns stand.....

[Mickju]

3. They are both venal idiots.

No one should listen to a word they say.

[MarcA]

4. We have Safety Standards, Warnings and Laws for all those mentioned.

They have been effective ever since enacted and improved upon and most of the ones
for the pandemic are only to be for a few months.

[Initech]

5. Meanwhile here's a list of doctors more reliable than Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil:

Dr. Dre
Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Spaceman (from 30 Rock)
Dr. Nick
Dr. Hibbert
Dr. Tobias Funke
Dr. Evil
Dr. Jekyll
Dr. Strange
Dr. Manhattan
Dr. McCoy
Dr. Brown
Doc Martens
Dr. Love
Dr. Smith
Dr. Van Nostrand (Kramer's alter ego on Seinfeld)
Dr. Who
Dr. Seuss
Doctor Demento
Doctor Zhivago
Dr. J.
Dr. Scholls
Dr. House
Dr. Zoidberg

[sandensea]

8. Even Dr. Detroit.

The 'mad man from Michigan'.

[keithbvadu2]

21. And Rug Doctor

[wryter2000]

25. Doctor Strangelove

Doc Holliday

[SergeStorms]

29. Even Doctor Kavorkian.....

was more reliable than those two morons. Kavorkian's entire estate was worth a little more than $100,000 when he died. I wonder what the estates of these two idiots will add up to? They're only in it for the money.

Sorry, boys. I'm not willing to sacrifice my two beautiful grandchildren at the altar of capitalism. Fuck off.

[Grins]

31. Dr. Sheldon Cooper

[DonaldsRump]

39. Dr. Demento, Dr. Ruth

Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard.....

What's wrong with you, not listing all these good doctors?

[CaptYossarian]

43. Dr. John was in the right place at the wrong time.

Been there for years.

Meanwhile, these two quacks pollute the airwaves.

[BHDem53]

45. Doc Adams

Dr. Bombay
Dr. Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Alex Stone
Dr. Marcus Welby, M.D.

[rpannier]

51. Also

Dr No
Dr Hook
Dr Caliguri
Dr Mike Morton
Doc Adams
Dr Bricker
Dr Harman
Dr Tony Hill
Dr Parish
Dr Crane
Dr Jones (Indiana)
Dr Watson
Dr Scrivello (DDS) (as played by Steve Martin)

[sandensea]

6. '360,000 from swimming pools'?

Where? At the Trump dumps?

[PatSeg]

10. I'm trying to figure out where

on earth he go that statistic.

[LakeArenal]

13. From trump's ass

[PatSeg]

14. That was my first thought!

[rpannier]

52. Exactly where he got that statistic

It's world wide
And his number is still high by about 30,000
I think I saw that in the article linked

[PatSeg]

12. Okay I found this

The swimming pools thing is a much bigger leap. Dr. Phil says 360,000 people die each year in swimming pools, but in reality the U.S. averaged only 3,536 unintentional (as in, not murder or suicide) drowning deaths each year from 2005 to 2014, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and that includes drowning deaths in other types of bodies of water, not just swimming pools.

https://www.thewrap.com/dr-phil-downplays-pandemic-claims-360000-people-die-yearly-in-swimming-pools-video/

[underpants]

19. Dr. 0 added two 0's

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213301355

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7. Video Clip

[sandensea]

9. Poor Phil. He's just trying to revive his flagging career.

A washed-up con man who knows he still has the Chumpkins.

But then, they're so easy.

[niyad]

11. mehmet's eyes look dead. phil looks insane. he looked like he was spitting during that bit.

Oh, by the way, phil, drownings are about 3,690, NOT 360,000. If you are going to lie, try at least to sound credible.

[demigoddess]

15. are you expecting Dr Phil to understand Math??!!??!?

I cannot believe your optimism!

[niyad]

16. I know. I try at least once a day to be optimistic. That used up my quota for April.

[IronLionZion]

17. And if school kids live with grandparents in the house

they may have found a Republican solution to Social Security and Medicare funding shortages.

No one ever thinks they'll be in the 2-3% or whatever mortality. The truth is many of the folks reading and seeing this stuff won't be alive in a few months.

[Ilsa]

18. Dr. Phil is not an MD. Dr. Oz promotes pseudoscience, even

though he's a surgeon. Neither are epidemiologists or public health experts, and their comments are malpractice, as far as I'm concerned.

I'd like to see them volunteer their grandkids as sacrifice for the economy and their personal wealth. They could sell tickets to fox news to cover their deaths.

[whopis01]

20. What Oz said is being misconstrued - including in the headline on that image.

Of course, he was also wrong in how he used the numbers.

The title implies that 2-3% of the total population of children might die. What Oz said was that the total number of deaths would only change by 2-3% if schools were opened. Two very different things.

With that said, the article in The Lancet, to which he refers, doesn't say either of those things. It says that if all that was done was to close schools, then the total mortality would be reduced by only 2-3%. It was making the point that more than just school closures were necessary in this situation. Certainly it wasn't trying to argue against school closings, but rather in favor of additional social distancing techniques.

And Dr. Phil is just an idiot.

[wryter2000]

26. There you go again

Factanista

[NNadir]

22. It has always been the case that these people care more about fetuses than children. n/t.

[DesertRat]

24. Thanks Oprah

Love ya Oprah, but you introduced and promoted these two idiots to the country.

[wryter2000]

27. I don't love her

These clowns are totally consistent with her woo-woo thinking.

[dobleremolque]

30. Whatever professional accrediting boards there are behind these "doctors"

should revoke their privileges to practice.

[AtheistCrusader]

33. Phil gave up his in 2006 after fucking his Paitents.

Not sure if it was actual sex, or billing.

(Just kidding, he was having sex with them, a highly ethical and intelligent thing for a psychologist to do.)

[rpannier]

34. Dr Phil already lost his

I was unaware of this. But, there was a post yesterday on DU that had that info

[DesertRat]

35. "Mr. Phil" and pals

[Rob2861]

38. Duds

What we have here is a faker, barfly and an idiot.

[AtheistCrusader]

32. Both these guys a shitbags and quacks.

Dr. Drew Pinsky at least apologized for his flu nonsense early on.

[OnlinePoker]

36. Thank Oprah for giving these two an air of legitimacy

If it hadn't been for their appearances on her show, I doubt they would have the audience they have now.

[Skittles]

41. all three of them are self-serving phonies

UGH

[kacekwl]

40. Oprah's favorite things.

Stupid is as stupid does.

[tclambert]

42. If I want medical advice, I'll turn to a REAL celebrity, like Matthew McConaughey.

For psychiatric advice, of course, I'd turn to Tom Cruise.

[apkhgp]

44. How stupid can you get?

These two are supposed to be University educated. Is there a class where you learn how to be so frigging dumb?

[RockRaven]

46. I'd just as soon call this "Oprah Legacy Medical Advice" as "FOXNews Medical Advise"

Just two of the many grifters she foisted upon her credulous viewers, and by extension all of rest of us.

[Mendocino]

47. Dr. Phil and the

Bowling Green Swimming Pool Massacre!

[Mendocino]

48. OZ The Great and Powerful!

just ignore the 2-3% lying dead under the curtain.

[orleans]

49. and as an aside

those auto accident victims, swimming pool deaths, and cigarette deaths do not infect and kill the hospital staff (along with the people in high risk groups).

i know i'm only preaching to the choir here.

(thank you, du, for being here)

[ahoysrcsm]

50. On swimming pool death being wrong, there was a meme posted with some numbers...

it also included abortion deaths at 10 million from Jan 1 2020 to April 15th 2020. The RW has no problem with lying about the numbers.