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The Long Journey to Resolve the Origins of a Previous Pandemic | The Scientist Magazine®

Source: The Long Journey to Resolve the Origins of a Previous Pandemic | The Scientist Magazine®

Doctors Don’t Take Dr. Oz Seriously, Neither Should Pennsylvania’s Voters

Dr. Oz’s Advice

The single most damning study of Dr. Oz and his TV money-maker The Dr. Oz Show was published in the prestigious British Medical Journal in 2014. A group of scientists at Canada’s University of Alberta medical school studied what medical recommendations were made on Dr. Oz’s show and whether there was any scientific evidence to support them.

Dr. Oz most commonly dispenses general medical advice, dietary advice, and weight loss tips. He recommended consulting a healthcare professional only 9 percent of the time – in contrast to another TV advice-dispensing show called The Doctors where the show recommends consulting a healthcare professional 33 percent of the time. Dr. Oz seems to think he knows best.

Most importantly the researchers found that there was either no scientific evidence supporting the advice dispensed on The Dr. Oz Show or the evidence showed that the advice given was contradicted by science a colossal 67.6 percent of the time.

‘Dangerous Rogue’

If it isn’t bad enough that the advice Dr. Oz gives you is wrong, perhaps it should give you pause that this candidate for US Senate dispenses advice without acknowledging the nonsense he is dispensing or his TV show guests’ financial conflicts of interest.

 

Source: Doctors Don’t Take Dr. Oz Seriously, Neither Should Pennsylvania’s Voters

Fox News Doctors Clips of Joe Biden and Barack Obama – Rolling Stone

The only problem is that both clips were taken out of context. Biden does look a little confused in the first clip, but it’s only because he’s looking for someone, perhaps Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, whom he brings up onstage to applause shortly after the conservative media cut ends. The second clip ends right before Biden gets Obama’s attention and introduces him to someone. Twitter user @acyn helpfully attached the full clips to the end of the Fox News segments lambasting the edited versions.

Source: Fox News Doctors Clips of Joe Biden and Barack Obama – Rolling Stone

Biden moves on combating long COVID | CIDRAP

Yesterday President Joe Biden issued a presidential memorandum directing the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a national action plan on long COVID.

The move signals an effort to study and fund research for the 7 million to 23 million Americans who suffer from COVID-19 symptoms for months and years after initial infection. Some estimates suggest as many as 1 in 3 people with COVID-19 will develop symptoms that last longer than 4 weeks, with some resulting in significant disability.

 

Source: Biden moves on combating long COVID | CIDRAP

Energy costs: 400,000 disabled people lose access to vital free help | openDemocracy (Me: Boris does not like disabled people…?)

400,000 disabled people across England have been stripped of the right to free insulation that could bring down their heating bills, in a move quietly slipped out by the government on Friday.

Disability equality charity Scope today slammed the cut as “bitterly disappointing” and showing “total disregard” for the needs of disabled people, who they warn are the “hardest hit” by fuel poverty and face “sky high” energy bills.

Under the new version of the government’s flagship energy efficiency scheme – the ‘Energy Company Obligation’ (ECO) – access to help is being cut from nearly half of all disabled people as their income is judged to be too high, documents released on Friday revealed.

 

Source: Energy costs: 400,000 disabled people lose access to vital free help | openDemocracy