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Dr. Oz is a charlatan who’s allowed to exist because the vitamin and supplement industry lobbied against FDA oversight and won.

He’s the literal product of corruption.

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And Snakeoil

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Oz went on to explain that most people have misread the Constitution and Bill of rights, people can have life OR liberty OR the pursuit of happiness. Only the rich will get all three…

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Funny because you can only pursue liberty or pursue happiness when dead. Almost like the afterlife, religion is an instrument of class oppression

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It’s an interesting perspective on a phrase that literally says “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”.

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FFS, this guy thinks it’s a prix fixe menu!

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I’m no Trumper, and definitely don’t think Dr Oz is the right person for this job, but this is yet another case of words being taken out of context. Watch the video for yourself.

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We can see your comment history.

Including the Modlog.

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I don’t care lol. The last screenshot is a movie reference. It wasn’t malicious in the slightest.

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This is how we know you’re a little troll and nothing more.

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Ohhh, so I can say whatever I want as long as it’s a movie reference?

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Dr. Oz told members of the National Governors’ Association (video below) that uninsured Americans “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss of darkness of fear over not having the health they need.” That, he suggested, could come via physicals in a “festival-like setting.”

Additional context doesn’t make him sound much more convincing.

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can you quote it so i don’t have to watch it

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He literally says “…because they don’t have a right to health…”. What are all of us missing that you’ve so handily figured out the context for?

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I don’t think he’s saying people _shouldn’t _ have the right health, just that in America, they currently do not.

But that’s just my interpretation and it still doesn’t help qualify him for the role trump selected him for.

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America Last. WTF, the Government of Putin wants an epidemic to break out. How many people in the red run welfare counties would be affected by Dr. Oz’s plan? Indeed, a shit ton and they voted for it.

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I’ll make it much simpler to understand. The only thing putin wants. Is America out of the way. Whatever form that takes. So that he can pursue his plans in Eurasia.

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