The Beginning....

The Beginning....
When William Least Heat-Moon toured the country many years ago, his steed, if you will, was a van that he named Ghost Dancing. His journey of America was 13,000 miles. His book is Blue Highways, A Journey Into America. My steed will be a Subaru WRX (traded for an XV Crosstrek). My travels will be, what in the past were called, the blue highways of Virginia. Years ago, maps showed secondary roads in blue. Yes, the ones less traveled.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

So-called Dr. Oz, Seemingly Kicked-Off Oprah's Radio Station.





                             

This is amazing.  Here are some quotes from the article.           

"Oz then also claimed that his show is not a medical one. "We very purposely, on the logo, have ‘Oz' as the middle, and the ‘Doctor' is actually up in the little bar for a reason," he said in a TV interview. "I want folks to realize that I'm a doctor, and I'm coming into their lives to be supportive of them. But it's not a medical show." 

Let me see if I understand this. You're a doctor. You have a TV program where you give advice on losing weight, diets, supplements, how to stay healthy, and various types of treatments, but it's not a medical program. Sure, makes sense.

This is what HBO's John Oliver had to say.

"Let’s be clear: The First Amendment protects Americans against government censorship, and that’s it. It does not guarantee you the right to simultaneously hold a faculty position at a prestigious private university and make misleading claims on a TV show.It absolutely protects you to say whatever you like on it, just as it protects my right to say what I think about you on mine, which is this: 

You are the worst person in scrubs who has ever been on television—and I’m including Katherine Heigl in that. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to be worse than Katherine Heigl? You are also the admittedly handsome ringmaster of a middling mid-afternoon snake-oil dispensary and it says something that even when you do a show with seven fake models of human feces, the biggest piece of shit on the stage has his name in the title."

Dang, Mr. Oliver, tell us what you really think.

Here's a link to the article.

EDIT:  Folks, do something good for yourselves. Watch this video by John Oliver. If you watch this video and ever buy another supplement.... Actually, I think I'm wasting my time, here. But anyway, here's the link. It covers not only OZ but our so-called law makers who receive money from the supplement makers and so on. Yes, regular old corruption but this can surely be dangerous to your health. Yes, there's a video on this page.

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