Cretin of the moment

Dr, Mehmet Oz, who seems to be making a habit of this. From the Respectful Insolence piece:

In actuality, what's going on here, I think, is more likely to be pure hubris. Dr. Oz has become so enamored with himself and his image as the iconoclast bucking the medical system, seeing beyond "Western medicine," and being just so much more damned smart than any other doctor that it never occurred to him that he could be fooled by a psychic scammer just as easily as anyone else. Add to that his need to fill the insatiable maw of his TV show with new topics and new guests, coupled with the demands of his audience, who are clearly very much into this sort of thing, and it becomes easy for him to justify having a guest like John Edward as both evidence of his intelligence and open-mindedness and giving the people what they want.

If anything, Oz deserves an extra dose of COTM derision for pulling the odious John Edward out of whatever hole he's been hiding in after the failure of Crossing Over and giving him the exact sort of platform he doesn't deserve: "medical" legitimacy. You just can't keep a career publicity-hungry kook down, I suppose.