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In reply to the discussion: Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)None of the stuff he touts is proprietary--you can wander into any health food store and see ten or more brands of any herb or tincture he is talking about.
If he had investments in those companies after vociferously insisting that he has NO connection to them, we'd know about it--particularly since Congress has already looked into his activities with a fine-toothed comb as a consequence of his excessive enthusiasm about the efficacy of some herbs or methodologies.
I think the "W" word is ill-advised to describe him, for a lot of reasons, not the least of which it's just not accurate. He may not give very good advice (and from all accounts, his enthusiasm for this or that "cure" is often lame), and you may find him less than reliable for that reason, but the accusations that he's secretly profiting from sales of products are inaccurate. Claire McCaskill would have had his head on a plate were that the case.