It so simple.  Can the truthers go away now.

via Yahoo news.

Oz, one of TV’s most popular medical experts, said on his Fox…

FOX?  That should be your first warning sign.

…testing by a New Jersey lab had found what he suggested were troubling levels of arsenic in many brands of juice.

How terrible!  Good thing this Oz guy is here to help.  Er….maybe not.

The Food and Drug Administration said its own tests show no such thing, even on one of the same juice batches Oz cited.

“There is no evidence of any public health risk from drinking these juices. And FDA has been testing them for years,” the agency said in a statement.

The flap escalated Thursday, when Oz’s former medical school classmate Dr. Richard Besser lambasted him on ABC’s “Good Morning America” show for what Besser called an “extremely irresponsible” report that was akin to “yelling ‘Fire!’ in a movie theater.”

Besser was acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before joining ABC news as health and medical editor several years ago.

Oz is Pwnd!

Arsenic is naturally present in water, air, food and soil in two forms — organic and inorganic. According to the FDA, organic arsenic passes through the body quickly and is essentially harmless. Inorganic arsenic — the type found in pesticides — can be toxic and may pose a cancer risk if consumed at high levels or over a long period.

“The Dr. Oz Show” did not break down the type when it tested several dozen juice samples for total arsenic. As a result, the FDA said the results are misleading.

Furthermore, the agency’s own tests found far lower total arsenic levels from one of the same juice batches the Oz show tested — 2 to 6 parts per billion of arsenic versus the 36 that Oz’s show had claimed.

Hey Ozy… time to step up and admit that you are a poor doctor and a lousy scientist.  Now he knows better.  If only he knew in advance….

In a letter published on the Oz show’s website, Nestle said it told the program’s producer in advance that the method the show’s lab used was intended for testing waste water, not fruit juice, and “therefore their results would be unreliable at best.”

The FDA also sent a letter in advance to the show and threatened to post its findings and the letters online if the program proceeded.

Oz went ahead.

I guess that makes in a fear-mongering douche bag!

Tim Sullivan, a spokesman for Oz’s show, said in an interview: “We don’t think the show is irresponsible. We think the public has a right to know what’s in their foods.”

The show doubles down on stupid!

In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, even Oz said he wouldn’t hesitate to keep giving his four children apple juice.

WTF – even Ozy ain’t buying the shit he is selling. Damn shame!

The below clip of Ron Paul was sad for so many  reasons.  The basic question put to Ron Paul… What happens to a person the gets seriously hurt but does not have insurance.

Watch the whole clip so you can see it in context but, at 0:58 it gets real exciting….

Wolf:  Congressman are you saying that society should just let him die?

Crowd:  Yes, Yeah, yeah!

WTF!  Only teabaggers can make Ron Paul look like the sane one in the room.

Ron then talks about the 60′s when hospitals took people in and helped them.  Hey Ron, they still do that today!  He then goes into a blur of buzz words… Churches, Cost is so high, bureaucracy, insurance companies, drug companies, inflation, blah, blah, blah.  He ends by promoting alternative health care.

Ron Paul is a scary woo loving, fundie, creationist and I don’t want the America that he wants.

Here is an example of the America that I want!

They did not ask if he had insurance, they did not ask if he was a christian, they did not tell him it was his fault for not having a helmet.  These people saw another human that needed help and they did what they could and the saved his life.  This is my America!

WOW!  This may be the best Eddie Current video ever!

10 Years ago she said she would test for the $1 Million – she lied!

A few days ago I got tricked by a video.  It sounded like Michelle Bachmann asked, Who likes white people?”  After further review and a video with a different edit and some additional information from my fine readers, it seems that she said “Who likes WET people?”  I guess it was raining at the time and she was so happy that her gOd got them all wet.

Well, it made me think of the idea of pareidolia. (via Wiki)

Pareidolia (pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-doh-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse. The word comes from the Greek para- – “beside”, “with”, or “alongside”—meaning, in this context, something faulty or wrong (as in paraphasia, disordered speech) and eidōlon – “image”; the diminutive of eidos – “image”, “form”, “shape”. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia.

So… with my belief that Bachmann may be a racist combined with a clever (evil) video edit and a text prompt, I heard what the author intended.  I still think it sounds like “white people” but that is part of the trick.  Once you get an idea in your head it is hard to shake it.

Below is a video from a Dutch children’s show.  It is not in English but someone took the time to type what is sounds like and put the text in the video.  Watch it and see how well they did.  (Video is NSFW original show is for kids but the “translation” is not)

via JREF.

Wednesday night at 10:00pm (9:00pm Central), ABC’s Primetime Nightline will air a one-hour special on psychic abilities. James Randi, along with JREF President D.J. Grothe, JREF’s Million Dollar Challenge Director Banachek, and advisor Jamy Ian Swiss, worked with Nightline producers on two of the segments and participated in three days of taping, including the JREF’s first-ever open Million Dollar Challenge event where hundreds of New York City psychics were invited to take our tests.

Will a national TV show prove that psychics are all bull shit?  Doubt it!

Post by Derrick

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Washington Post: Ubiquitous ‘tiny belly’ online ad part of scheme, government says

It’s good to see solid, real world skepticism in the mainstream media. Of course, things like Acai berries, colon cleansers, and HCG hormones have long been known to be completely ineffective, but this article points out the conclusion which should be obvious: people who are unethical enough to peddle snake oil are unethical enough to rob you blind, as well.

[A goodly number of HCG scams actually are selling a homeopathic serum, too. I suppose it's a great racket--pure water with a bittering agent for that medicinal flavor saves you a lot on overhead and FDA supervision. But if homeopathy is true, wouldn't a dilution of the hormone cause you to put on weight? It would be a tailor-made excuse for failure, if they didn't also put their customers on a 500-calorie-per-day regimen for two weeks, and 1000 c.p.d. for another six weeks, thereby guaranteeing startling results.]