“The Dr. Oz Show” is incredibly popular as a large group of people continue to turn to the program for medical advice.
Those scrambling to get tickets for “The Dr. Oz Show” may want to hold off as a new research reportedly suggests that less than half of the claims made on the program were supported by science, according to Quartz.
For the study, which was published in the British Medical Journal, researchers reportedly randomly selected 40 episodes of Dr. Oz’s show and analyzed 80 randomly selected recommendations given by Dr. Oz in the episodes, according to the website Syracuse.com.
Researchers reportedly found that only 46% of his claims were supported by scientific evidence. 36% were reportedly found to have no supporting evidence while 15% were actually contradicted by scientific evidence, according to the website.
“Consumers should be skeptical about any recommendations provided on television medical talk shows,” the researchers reportedly wrote in the study, according to the Detroit Free Press.
They added, “Viewers need to realize that the recommendations may not be supported by higher evidence or presented with enough balanced information to adequately inform decision making.”
“The Dr. Oz Show” may be selling tickets, but the critics have spoken that Dr. Mehmet Oz, a real doctor and an expert of cardiothoracic surgery who went to Harvard and received a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, may be saying things that are false.
In June, a Senate subcommittee reportedly addressed the fact that he was telling his viewers things like, “I’ve got the No.1 miracle in a bottle to burn your fat. It’s raspberry ketones.”
“I don’t get why you need to say this stuff because you know it’s not true,” Sen. Claire McCaskill D-Mo stated during the hearing.
The viewership for “The Dr. Oz Show” is very high, as 2.9 million reportedly tune in to watch the program on any given day.
The recent study reportedly concluded that “recommendations made on medical talk shows often lack adequate information on specific benefits or the magnitude of the effects of these benefits.”
Researchers have reportedly cautioned viewers to be “skeptical about recommendations made on medical talk shows.”
