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riversedge

(77,562 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:09 AM Saturday

Bernie; So the entire medical and scientific community disagrees with you, who are your sources that agree with you?


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Bernie; So the entire medical and scientific community disagrees with you, who are your sources that agree with you?

He actually said Dr. Oz with a straight face‼️


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Bernie; So the entire medical and scientific community disagrees with you, who are your sources that agree with you? (Original Post) riversedge Saturday OP
If Dr Oz had had any other name, he'd never been so poular. Remember that Oz was a flim flam artist ... marble falls Saturday #1
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Irish_Dem Saturday #2
Good one! ananda Saturday #21
It is a quote from PT Barnum or HL Mencken. Irish_Dem Saturday #22
It Was Mencken ProfessorGAC Saturday #23
I think that Codifer Saturday #32
Highly Disputed ProfessorGAC Saturday #33
Didn't know that... AZ8theist 20 hrs ago #35
Mencken. Barnum just made several fortunes from the exploitation of it. marble falls Saturday #26
H L Mencken. ananda Saturday #30
My own version of that jfz9580m 17 hrs ago #36
Yes humans seem hellbent on total destruction of their species and the planet. Irish_Dem 16 hrs ago #38
Once upon a time, very early on, Dr. Oz mwmisses4289 Saturday #3
Yes. Dr. Oz's first books were written with Dr. Michael Roizen, who's at the Cleveland Clinic. tanyev Saturday #7
Greed and power mucifer Saturday #28
What's it going to take to re-establish competent health oversight in this country? Paladin Saturday #4
If lots and lots of dead children from guns haven't and don't matter, neither... 3catwoman3 Saturday #8
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh yes Dr. Oz is a ringing endorsement... Kennedy is a sick man that's why Trump loves him riversedge Saturday #5
Sic'em, Bernie! joshdawg Saturday #6
Why does he always look like he's about to die? eShirl Saturday #9
Cruel, isn't it? Queso Delicioso Saturday #14
Always sounds like it, too. nt Wednesdays Saturday #19
He speaks fluent death rattle. marble falls Saturday #27
I notice that BrainWorm didn't talk over Bernie the same way he did every woman on the committee ms liberty Saturday #10
RFK Jr.'s past work as a personal injury attorney, and his ongoing financial interest and ties to law firms suing sop Saturday #11
I wish that the news media was reporting this. yardwork Saturday #12
They'd rather focus on his personal eccentricities, but, as withTrump, there's a method to RFK Jr.'s madness. sop Saturday #16
What news media Keepthesoulalive Saturday #17
RFK Jr.'s ideology on vaccines, and various medical conditions has been driven by greed all along not Botany Saturday #18
This cannot stand, he has to go. Passages Saturday #13
Doesn't matter. He is doing Trump's work. AnnaLee Saturday #15
Why it's Doctor/Scientist D.J. Trump. with his famous bleach treatment. Ping Tung Saturday #20
According to plan Phil Ossifer Saturday #24
You may be right. Emile Saturday #25
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #29
Welcome to DU, Phil Ossifer! calimary 21 hrs ago #34
I love Bernie's passion! mainer Saturday #31
Come on heroin do your job. No peskie impurities next time. OverBurn 16 hrs ago #37

marble falls

(68,040 posts)
1. If Dr Oz had had any other name, he'd never been so poular. Remember that Oz was a flim flam artist ...
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:17 AM
Saturday

... in literature. Americans do have a love for flim flam artists.

Codifer

(1,057 posts)
32. I think that
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:16 PM
Saturday

Barnum's quote was: "Theres a sucker born every minute.... and two to take him."

I could be wrong tho.

ProfessorGAC

(74,263 posts)
33. Highly Disputed
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:23 PM
Saturday

Barnum respected his customers. He would not denigrate them.
Experts attribute that to George Hull, the purveyor of the Cardiff Giant hoax.
Barnum tried to buy the "giant" for his museum, but Hull refused.
When Barnum came up with his own fake and it made him more money than the original made Hull, he was supposed to have said that line.
Interesting that he used that after being the one who used a fraud to make money, but he's the one that consensus says said it.
Because it was about Barnum, it later became attributed to him.

jfz9580m

(15,933 posts)
36. My own version of that
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 06:31 AM
17 hrs ago

As an environmentalist and animal rights supporter is:
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of Humans.

True ;-/.

mwmisses4289

(2,089 posts)
3. Once upon a time, very early on, Dr. Oz
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:26 AM
Saturday

made sense. At some point, he embraced quackery and nonsense, to the point that his med cred has become questionable at best, deadly at worst. Too bad, he seemed a good man.

tanyev

(47,711 posts)
7. Yes. Dr. Oz's first books were written with Dr. Michael Roizen, who's at the Cleveland Clinic.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:41 AM
Saturday

The first Oprah appearances were always the two of them, basically talking about commonsense nutrition and exercise. Somewhere along the line Dr. Roizen bailed. I never heard if there was a blow up between the two or if Dr. Roizen spotted warning signs and got out while he could.

Paladin

(31,534 posts)
4. What's it going to take to re-establish competent health oversight in this country?
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:30 AM
Saturday

I pray to God the answer to that one isn't "Lots and lots of dead children."

3catwoman3

(27,621 posts)
8. If lots and lots of dead children from guns haven't and don't matter, neither...
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:07 AM
Saturday

…will lots and lots of children from vaccine-preventable diseases.

riversedge

(77,562 posts)
5. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh yes Dr. Oz is a ringing endorsement... Kennedy is a sick man that's why Trump loves him
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:31 AM
Saturday


🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh yes Dr. Oz is a ringing endorsement… Kennedy is a sick man that’s why Trump loves him

ms liberty

(10,520 posts)
10. I notice that BrainWorm didn't talk over Bernie the same way he did every woman on the committee
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:23 AM
Saturday

sop

(15,832 posts)
11. RFK Jr.'s past work as a personal injury attorney, and his ongoing financial interest and ties to law firms suing
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:38 AM
Saturday

vaccine makers, explains his effort as HHS Secretary to cast doubt on established medical research and question scientific data. Kennedy is using the CDC to establish causal links between vaccines and various serious medical conditions. He is also weakening the civil immunity currently shielding vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits by targeting vaccine makers' federal liability protections. This will directly benefit Kennedy's personal injury tort lawyer associates by increasing manufacturer liability for "vaccine injuries."

sop

(15,832 posts)
16. They'd rather focus on his personal eccentricities, but, as withTrump, there's a method to RFK Jr.'s madness.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:49 AM
Saturday

Keepthesoulalive

(1,722 posts)
17. What news media
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 10:24 AM
Saturday

They continue to show you who they are. Maybe we should believe them this time. Folks on YouTube have been all over it, give them a try.

Botany

(75,203 posts)
18. RFK Jr.'s ideology on vaccines, and various medical conditions has been driven by greed all along not
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 10:46 AM
Saturday

by any credible scientific data or research. His bullshit about measles vaccines has already led
to the disease being spread and deaths.

“During a 2019 measles outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Samoa, which is located in Oceania rather than Asia, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited and discouraged people from taking the measles vaccine. Following his visit, vaccine coverage fell and an outbreak killed 83 people, mostly young children.”

AnnaLee

(1,304 posts)
15. Doesn't matter. He is doing Trump's work.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:48 AM
Saturday

It saves a little of Trump's valuable energy to have another idiot take down "we-the-people's" reliable institutions. It isn't ignoring the American Medical Association, etc. that is the goal. The goal is bringing them down via takeover and domination of their control followed by firing of anyone disagreeing with Project 2025, Trump, Oz, (whatever and whoever) and replacing them with loyalists to the Authoritarian Regime. (To which Venzuela was just targeted for annexation after Greenland and Gaza.)

Phil Ossifer

(1 post)
24. According to plan
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 12:21 PM
Saturday

From my perspective, it looks like RFK jr. is effectively doing his best to disloge guns from it's top position as the nation's leading cause of death among children.

calimary

(87,688 posts)
34. Welcome to DU, Phil Ossifer!
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 02:36 AM
21 hrs ago

Glad you’re here, and extra glad for your take on this. It sure seems to make sense.

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