Four Horsemen of Herd Immunity
Tract III: The Rider of Grift — Dr. Oz
“You may already be cured!”
Dr. Mehmet Oz — surgeon by training, salesman by practice. Once a healer, now a huckster in designer scrubs, hawking wellness like it’s clearance-priced enlightenment.
His show blurred the line between advice and advertisement, between science and supplement. Snake oil returned to the market, rebranded as “life hacks.”
When medicine demanded rigor, he offered resonance. When scrutiny loomed, he gestured vaguely toward “Eastern wisdom” and the applause sign lit up.
When the Senate rejected his ambitions, the administration intervened — and elevated him not to the clinic, but to command. Dr. Oz was named Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The nation’s most vulnerable now awaited coverage decisions from a man who once recommended raspberry ketones and psychic surgery.
Buy three bottles of Oz Wellness Liver Flush™ and receive prior authorization for knee surgery.
He left behind a trail of “miracles” that were neither, and followers who asked their doctors fewer questions because television had already answered them.
Thus rides the Grifter — not with a stethoscope, but with a federal appointment and a monetized conscience.
🐄 Next: A torchbearer of ignorance gallops forth, leaving only hashtags and headlines in her wake.
Tract IV: The Rider of Ignorance — Chaya Raichik
To be continued...
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