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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI could never stand Dr. Phil
another fraud foisted upon the nation courtesy of Oprah Winfrey. WTF is her appeal?
Link to tweet
Car accidents are not contagious.
Lung cancer is not contagious.
Drowning is not contagious.
MLAA
(17,327 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Outside of academic setting or a professional one.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)He preferred to be addressed as Mr. Tyner.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)The only times PhDs do use the doctor term is in marketing pitches that show off the PhD staff, but yes - I agree, they usually feign a little humility by not using the title.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)But not a licensed therapist.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)Somehow I misremember looking him up years ago and only seeing masters degree.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)I work with a ton of PhD's and most of them only refer to themselves as Dr during presentations, etc.
Takket
(21,625 posts)Being the orderly who bagged up someones mom or dad, and hauled the body down to a refrigerated semi trailer because there was no where else to put it, and you come home and turn it your TV, physically and emotionally exhausted, and see that.
question everything
(47,534 posts)And, yes a part of the Ophraization of this country.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)another TV idiot spewing more nonsense. Does he and the other idiots on Fox mingle with people right now, bet not.
msongs
(67,441 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)She has foisted so many quacks and junk science on America that it's unforgivable. If there was New Age anything you can bet that Oprah had it on her show. She gave a platform to Jenny McCarthy to spew her anti-vax views virtually unchallenged.
A good article on her love affair with woo: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16868216/oprah-winfrey-pseudoscience
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)BTW, she rose to fame shortly after Trump - I could never understand how or why and never will.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Cha
(297,650 posts)how dumb is that? Just dumb enough to fool the cult?
Skittles
(153,193 posts)phony
tman
(983 posts)We need to get out of the culture of celebrity worship.
It brought us Trump.
niyad
(113,552 posts)What, exactly, is his degree in?
William Seger
(10,779 posts)... which, as a medical science, is about on a par with leeching.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Hirudotherapy - literally, leeching - is a fantastic treatment if you need to reestablish circulation to a transplanted or reattached body part.
What Dr. Phil does is somewhere on the quackery scale between chiropractic and homeopathy.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)How do you treat the accident victims and cancer patients when hospitals are overwhelmed by a virus?
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)hell yeah
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Theyre both bed bug crazy. Is Oprah next?
Rebl2
(13,551 posts)I believe she is. Never understood her appeal.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)What a maroon.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)saying its okay for 2-3% of Americans to die, so that the economy gets restarted real soon.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213298846
Oh and Phil My friend in UK is getting 3 mos pay not 1200 only one time Plus NHS
why cant we have this for people struggling here ?
Thats right because of people like you and Oz Shills who ju$t cant wait
SunSeeker
(51,694 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 17, 2020, 05:16 AM - Edit history (2)
80% of salary for three months, up to a maximum of $2,900/month. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/business/coronavirus-uk-pubs-wages/index.html
What kind of work does your friend do? How much is s/he getting per month?
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)Which I greatly appreciate since he works with the public.
diva77
(7,656 posts)I noticed that both are equally repugnant
Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)And has lost money in the stock market.
So things never change, the wealthy are willing to sacrifice the commoners to keep their wealth.
It seems that more conservatives are voicing the same opinion since the reports of the deaths were more than 60% minorities.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a joke. I am really starting to despise Oprah for bringing all these loathsome people into the American cultural consciousness.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)swimming to prevent drowning. They do it when theres a strong rip tide or a lot of sharks or a hurricane creating insane waves.
Tom Kitten
(7,350 posts)Never forgive him for exploiting mentally ill Shelley Duvall as some sort of lurid entertainment.
And yeah he reminds me of that wife beating crack head my pillow guy too. Not surprised he's going on the nazi lady's show now too.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)Hamlette
(15,412 posts)or at least my parents wouldn't let me go swimming until we got the sugar cube.
Prof.Higgins
(194 posts)owners the "right" not to place childproof fences around their pools. How about global warming, McGraw? Should we give free reign to the free market economy "rights" of fossil fuels and other greedy corporations whose activities will make earth uninhabitable for humans?
I'm extremely disappointed that such an intelligent man doesn't see how much harm will be done by FoxNews viewers and the Trump cultists, who will use him as a poster boy to justify their own diabolical agendas and deadly actions.
SunSeeker
(51,694 posts)I had no idea he was a right wing kook.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)standingtall
(2,787 posts)made that number up. About 3,500 people die each year due to accidental drowning and that not even specific to swimming pools. He was probably wrong on the rest of his numbers too.
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Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)was getting attention.
Barkers gotta bark the loudest.