Comments on: Oprah: Shame on you.

By: La Ley de Atracción « Ciencia, no ficción

La Ley de Atracción « Ciencia, no ficción — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:43:21 +0000

[...] Otros links: http://www.newsweek.com/id/36603/page/1 http://www.skepdic.com/lawofattraction.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/07/oprah-shame-on-you/ [...]

By: Quick Update

Quick Update — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:28:41 +0000

[...] Oprah: Shame on you. Phil Plait takes on Oprah’s embrace of pseudoscience, quackery, and dubious practices like bioidentical hormones. He links to the recent Newsweek cover article. Dr. David Gorski, of the excellent sciencebasedmedicine.com blog, recently wrote about Oprah and her profile of dubious medicine in the Toronto Star. [...]

By: Dystopian Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to OPRAH | ICED BORSCHT & Other Delights

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:48:16 +0000

[...] Factory. “(Oprah) pounds home the New Age nonsense from (Suzanne) Somers and McCarthy,” writes Phil Plait, a noted astronomer and gifted scientific mind, “giving them a platform to relentlessly [...]

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:42:36 +0000

I don’t watch Oprah or take bioidentical hormones and I have no clue who most of the celebrities that Newsweek cites are–and I’d guess that the writer of this article, and the comment writers, never watch the show either, and don’t really know what they’re talking about. They just take Newsweek’s word for it.

I have no opinion about most of the article. However, I do know about Gardasil, and Newsweek’s ridicule of Dr Christiane Northrup’s absolutely correct assertion that a good diet can help deal with HPV makes me suspect that Newsweek’s research is sadly lacking. Personally, I wouldn’t take that article as gospel any more than I’d take Oprah as gospel.

I find it quite amusing that the writer does. That’s not very scientific.

By: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:19:57 +0000

[...] has lost it. – http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/07/oprah-shame-on-you/ [...]

By: TheBlackCat

TheBlackCat — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:12:51 +0000

@ Sampson: That’s great in theory, the problem is that a large number of people don’t take what she says with a grain of salt, they accept it as the unquestionable gospel truth. If everyone was careful and verified her statements before acting on them, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

By: Sampson

Sampson — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:49:18 +0000

Everything should always be taken with a grain of salt. Including Oprah, and including this article. One should never listen to only one source, however I understand that it is hard in this day and age to trust any source so one may trust one source as the overarching truth. I remember watching Oprah with my mother and on many occasions disagreeing, but for the most part she has some valuable information, if you just take it along side other things. I’m glad this article has surfaced, not because I want to see Oprah attacked, I don’t, but because I think it may help educate the average reader/watcher to look for other sources and other opinions.