Nothing like some piping hot tea to finish off the week!
Seth MacFarlane called out Oprah for supporting the controversial remarks made by Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz regarding coronavirus.
Nothing like some piping hot tea to finish off the week!
Seth MacFarlane called out Oprah for supporting the controversial remarks made by Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz regarding coronavirus.
For example, President Donald Trump suggested that injecting people with disinfectant would be a suitable cure for coronavirus.
"The fact of the matter is we have people dying, 45,000 people a year die from automobile accidents," he said.
"But we don’t shut the country down for that, but yet we’re doing it for this?," he said.
While it's true that many more people die from car accidents, cigarettes, and swimming pools every year, none of those things are contagious.
"I get that they are not contagious, so they are probably not good examples," he said.
As it would only “cost us two to three percent in terms of total mortality”.
"That might be a tradeoff some folks would consider.”
"I’ve realized my comments on risks around opening schools have confused and upset people, which was never my intention. I misspoke," he tweeted.
While Oprah has been properly responding to the pandemic thus far, she has been suspiciously quiet on both of the controversial remarks made by Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.
Seth believes that by simply standing by and not using her giant platform to advocate for legitimate science, she's no better than Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz.
"But the use of her platform to amplify the voices of dubious characters rather than legitimate scientists has been a disservice."
In a follow-up interview with Vice earlier this week, he reiterated his statement.
"The exception to that is the elevation of these purveyors of pseudoscience."
“And it’s a strange dichotomy that I think a lot of people, particularly right now, are having trouble reconciling".
"And yet somehow has gotten caught up in this web of junk science on many occasions."
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