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Dr Oz's incentives are different. He's a day-time television talk show pundit. Fad diets that inspire false hope and supporting big time health/vitamin company
by capkutay 12y ago
Dr Oz's incentives are different. He's a day-time television talk show pundit. Fad diets that inspire false hope and supporting big time health/vitamin company brands directly translate into him making tons of money. I don't think most doctors are compensated for this type of behavior.
- settsu 12y agoNo, their motivations are far more varied and far less clear. While I certainly don't subscribe to anything so foolish as wholesale dismissal of the entire establishment, it's not as if every medical professional came out of a factory with no bias, flaws, or even fully developed critical thinking skills.
- dmix 12y agoTrue, this is similar to the classic question as to why does a top-of-their-game baseball players make millions of dollars while top-of-their-field-<doctors/engineers/etc> don't make a similar amount. The reason is because their skill set reaches hundreds of thousands of people while a doctor/engineer can only reach maybe a thousand. The rationalization is they can reach a massive amount of people and their effect on the world is much broader (regardless of having a higher impact). I honest have never seen a Dr Oz show but I know he has a broad audience therefore he should have a much much higher level of scrutiny than any other doctor. Regardless the OP's question is still valid, if only the goal is to improve upon the output of the science.