Meet the medical student who wants to bring down Dr. Oz

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63. I see. You're equivocating. Got it.

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See, when you accused doctors of giving women cancer, that came across as a claim that doctors had given women cancer. But what you really meant is that doctors prescribed a procedure that was--at the time--accepted and approved but which was later found to lead to an increased incidence of cancer.

That is, you were equivocating. Not quite lying, but pretty damn close.

I also missed the part where you documented your claim about horse piss. Could you clarify?

As for asking for a link to pharmaceuticals bribing doctors- I can only wonder at such a complete lack of awareness of what goes on in medicine.

I'm sorry that you object when people ask you to document your claims. How many doctors were involved in that Glaxo Smith-Kline judgment? All of them? The majority of them? Enough of them to make you feel justified in issuing a blanket condemnation of doctors in general?

Also, since I didn't contest your points about antidepressants or statins, I don't see how I'm required to address your follow-up to those points. However, I would point out that you need to demonstrate that doctors were/are knowingly prescribing these drugs while aware that they were harmful/ineffective, and that they were doing so because they were paid by GSK to do so. If they prescribed them in good faith--even in subsidized good faith--then they were incorrect but not unjustified.

Do you attack Dr Oz when he gets paid to promote his bullshit, or do you only complain when real doctors receive compensation?