eller... Newsweek gjør i alle fall en god jobb i siste utgave når de påpeker noe av kvakksalveriet, kvasi-vitenskapen og fjolleriet som Oprah skyfler ut til folket i liberale doser.
On Oprah's show, there is one opinion more equal than others; and by the end of the program there was no doubt where Oprah herself stood on the issue. She told her audience that she found Somers's bestselling books on bioidentical hormones "fascinating" and said "every woman should read" what she has to say. She didn't stop there. Oprah said that although she has never had a hot flash, after reading Somers she decided to go on bioidenticals herself. "After one day on bioidentical estrogen, I felt the veil lift," she wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine. "After three days, the sky was bluer, my brain was no longer fuzzy, my memory was sharper. I was literally singing and had a skip in my step." On the show, Oprah had her own word of warning for the medical establishment: "We have the right to demand a better quality of life for ourselves," she said. "And that's what doctors have got to learn to start respecting."
Jepp, der fikk de snobbete legene så hatten passet tenker jeg. Er det ikke toppen av frekkhet fra disse legene å si at disse mirakelkurene vi liker så godt (og så inderlig vi tro på) ikke har vitenskapelig støtte? Jeg mener, her leter vi med lys og lykter etter bedre og lengre liv og når det kommer noen og gir oss det vi vil ha så må disse legene ødelegge det for oss.
Så tåpelig som hennes lefling med "vitenskap" er, blekner det i forhold til hennes råd om det mer åndelige aspektet ved å leve bra.
This perpetual search for The Answer reached its apex a couple of years ago, when Oprah led the frenzy over The Secret. The video and accompanying book were a rehash of one of the oldest of self-help truisms—"think positive"—refreshed with a dusting of "science." The secret of The Secret was something called the Law of Attraction. As Oprah put it on the show, "It says that the energy, that the thoughts and feelings that you put out into the world, both good and bad, are exactly what is always coming back to you, so you have the life that you have created." Oprah and the teachers of The Secret, as they call themselves, did not mean this metaphorically. They explained that the universe and everything in it are made of vibrating energy, and by thinking positively we can actually "attract" the positive vibrations of the universe and bend them to our will. "You're a field of energy in a larger field of energy," one of The Secret's teachers said. "And like attracts like, and that's very, very scientific."
By harnessing this powerful science, they said, we can have anything we want—happiness, love, fabulous wealth. This was so inspiring to Oprah that she devoted three shows to the product and appeared on Larry King to talk it up more. She said it encapsulated everything she believes. "I've been talking about this for years on my show," she said. "I just never called it The Secret."
On one of the Secret shows, Oprah gave an example of the scientific power of the concept. She said that once, while she was hosting an episode about a man who could blow really big soap bubbles, she was thinking to herself, "Gee, that looks fun. I would like to blow some bubbles." When she returned to her office after the show, there, on her desk, was a silver Tiffany bubble blower. "So I call my assistant," Oprah told the audience. "I say, 'Did you just run out and get me some bubbles? 'Cause I got bubbles by my desk.' And she says, 'No, the bubbles were always there. I bought you bubbles for your birthday and you didn't notice them until today'."
Aah, fordi hun hadde tenkt på såpebobler gikk assistenten ut og kjøpte såpebobleutstyr LENGE FØR 
I tillegg til å avsløre et sinn totalt blottet for evne til å se årsakssammenhenger, illustrerer nok dette noe viktig om Oprahs personlighet men det tror jeg ikke jeg vil kommentere denne gangen (selv om det er fristende) . Jeg nøyer meg med å dirigere dere til The Chasers gjennomgang av The Secret, den får stort sett frem det jeg vil si.
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