In the current issue of The New Yorker, Michael Specter, journalism's great chronicler of how we know what we know, profiles Mehmet Oz, the surgeon and TV star who Oprah herself sainted as “America's doctor.” (Go read it now, then come back.) In the piece, Specter finds Oz both saving lives and promoting bunkum. Here are seven people, products, and ideas Specter catches Oz promoting that are absolutely, positively, wrong: A psychic who helps people commune with dead family members. Oz calls rasberry ketones, a supplement, “the No. 1 miracle in a bottle to burn your fat.” The only research ... Read More