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Anyone who watches Oprah should get their head checked. She’s so fake.
It’s about time someone exposes her for hypocrisy.
This is beyond rediculous. Oprah is a very smart woman and she has helped thousands perhaps millions of people with the knowledge that she presents on her show. Any intelligent person can figure out or investigate what is right for them. The reason she is being attached is simple – The FDA and the pharmacutacal and insurance companies are billion dollar businesses that want to keep alot of cures and homeopathic treatments under wraps because they want control over what kind of treatments they want to keep the masses on. Now since the invention of the internet and curageous women like Oprah and Suzanne Summers are getting the real information out there and these companies don’t like that. Well like it or not the real truths are coming out. Recently I found out that the flu shot has mercury in it and it causes alzheimers and what really prevents the flu besides a healthy immune system is Vitamin D3 (which 80% of people are deficient in and all the Omega’s. Look it all up on the internet.
hummmm! oprah is just to fake to a fault. pls be true to your viewers
Horrible that Newsweek is so manipulated by the big companies. They should be the ones doing more investigative reporting and present different points of views. Just because you might find some alternative cures that work for something doesn’t mean you are against western medicine. Very tabloid like cover.
I stopped listening to her when she started cheerleading for Barack Obama. Stay nuetral lady – its tiring getting your wants & needs shoved down our throats.
Can could her celebrity interviews be any less soft?
She had Kirstie Alley on promoting her own weight loss program. Has anyone SEEN how huge Kirstie Alley is? She doesn’t know anything about weight loss but you know Oprah’s trained seal audience will go otu and buy it.
hey Oprah-WAH! She really has some sort of hypnotic power. Anyone that can convince people to watch Dr.Phil is doling out the Kool Aid
Stay neutral and she “shoves stuff down our throats” ummm last I remembered her show is called The Oprah Winfrey Show and she can do whatever she wants to do on her show. If you don’t like it I’m sure you know how to operate a remote control.
Like she said she trusts her viewers to make their own decisions.
Thank you, Newsweek! Finally! For years Oprah has been promoting wacky health remedies- and giving Jenny Mcarthy an unchallenged platform to spout her crazy. Hopefully (but I doubt it) Oprah will learn from this and start having actual doctors and real professionals featured on her show- not given five minute segments so she can talk about supplements or The Secret.
I am so glad someone has finally called her out. I totally agree that her audience is like a trained seal. It isn’t that I’m not pro-alternate healing solutions I just think that Oprah has gotten WAY to medical this year. She isn’t a doctor and one shouldn’t do ANYTHING without talking to a doctor first. By the way, I love how someone on this board just professed to know more then the medical community from internet information. Seriously? Sure dude, I’m gonna take your advice about not getting vaccinated.
If you or a loved one has ever been seriously ill, you know that the medical community doesn’t know everything. Topics on oprah at least offer other opinions – and from the shows i’ve seen, they are presented as opinions.
Oprah is exploitive, incendiary and nowhere near as bright as she thinks. She lacks rigourous critical thinking skills and is vulnerable to believing pop-culture nonsense – which she then rams down the throat of her lemming audience. I loathe her.
Oprah has a long history of pandering to people I think are questionable – Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Phil, James Frey, the woman who wrote The Secret, Jenny McCarthy and Barack Obama! Oprah thinks they’re all great, but I don’t trust ANY of them. As successful as Oprah is, I think she’s very gullible. Americans are mostly pretty stupid though, so I guess that’s why she’s so relatable to them.
I’m not surprised that there is a backlash against Oprah – an intelligent, outspoken, powerful, articulate African-American woman who has helped millions of people feel empowered. I’m just surprised that it has taken this long.
Yeah JT, it’s a racial thing. Maybe to a racist like you.
Oprah rules!
For Oprah to say “I trust the audience to make their own educated minds up” on the garbage advice she gives is the equivalent to handing children firecracks and a lighter and hoping they make the “right decision”. Oprah is alot like most Americans, she refuses to take responsiblity for her own actions.
Nicole
Are you being cute saying it’s been a rough week for Oprah?
I think Oprah needs to stick to show topics like makeup tips and finding that perfect pair of shoes. Her foray into serious topics such as medicine is irresponsbile and self-serving.
I think Oprah needs to stick to show topics such as finding that perfect shoe or makeup tips. Her foray into medicine is irresponsible and self-serving.
This is so stupid. Oprah brings in doctors to discuss their opinions on health. Oprah has never once led a discussion on her own personal views on medicine and various forms of treatment, instead, she brings a wide variety of medical professionals to come and talk to alternative and traditional forms of treatment.
HEY SHARI – maybe this will help you figure this out:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/25/does-the-flu-shot-even-work.aspx
What Exactly is in a Flu Shot?
Before you decide to get vaccinated, it would serve you well to find out.
According to Dr. Donald Miller, MD, two-thirds of this year’s flu vaccines contain 25 micrograms of thimerosal. Thimerosal is 49 percent mercury by weight.
Each dose of these flu vaccines contains more than 250 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety limit for mercury.
By now, most people are well aware that children and fetuses are most at risk of damage from this neurotoxin, as their brains are still developing. Yet the CDC still recommends that children over 6 months, and pregnant women, receive the flu vaccine each year. This is just inexcusable.
In addition to mercury, flu vaccines also contain other hazardous ingredients like:
• Formaldehyde — a known cancer-causing agent
• Aluminum — a neurotoxin that has
In addition to mercury, flu vaccines also contain other hazardous ingredients like:
• Formaldehyde — a known cancer-causing agent
• Aluminum — a neurotoxin that has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease
• Triton X-100 — a detergent
• Phenol (carbolic acid)
• Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
• Various antibiotics: neomycin, streptomycin, gentamicin — which can cause allergic reactions in some people
But again SHARI I’m sure you can make a decision from this on your own just like Oprah’s audience.
As a research biologist, I am horrified that Oprah has been such a proponent of the anti-vaccine crusade that has gripped America for the past two decades. A list of chemicals is fairly typical of the alarmist malarky that typifies such arguments. The fact is, none of the chemicals in the flu vaccine have been proven to be harmful in the levels used in vaccines.
Mercury, for instance, is certainly toxic when encountered as pure metal or as methylmercury, but thiomersal has NEVER been illustrated to be harmful. Your argument would imply that because copper, in sufficient quantities, is toxic, we should all avoid copper-containing foods. BS.
166 kids died from ‘04-’07 of influenza. I was unable to find any deaths from phenol, mercury, triton-x-100, or any of the other chemicals you listed.
PS – Aluminum does not cause AD or dementia. It’s an urban legend for bored housewives with no scientific validity. Pass it on.
I tuned Oprah OUT over 20 years ago. Don’t know how so many others couldn’t see through her. She seems pretty transparent to me. And now many who made her ultra rich wish they hadn’t. I guess some sheep just always need a leader.
I admire Oprah — she is a very smart and savvy woman who has made herself into a media icon. However, everyone should remember that Oprah selects the content of her shows to drive ratings, just like any other TV executive. Her TV show is the foundation of her popularity, and its programming is designed to attract and retain viewers. Oprah is not performing a public service, nor is she driven by altruistic motives. It’s all about profit, folks, and it’s best to keep that mind when you watch her show (or any other show that purports to “help” viewers, like the Dr. Phil show). I’m not saying that the info provided on her show is worthless, but it’s best not to take it at face value, especially anything related to medical issues.
if you don’t like oprah then don’t watch the show. newsweek must be jealous