I'm no great fan of Oprah, but given a choice between Oprah having as
much influence as she does and, say, Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly
having as much influence as they do...
Chris Green
York U.
Toronto
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But Oprah has a track record of not learning from her errors and repeatedly
making errors across a wide range of issues. She is in a long-term high-profile
public position from which people take her word as Bible. Thereby the analogy
to various academics ends.
I'm sure she is a very nice lady but she needs to take herself off the public state.
She has been duped more than once. She was involved in the (in)famous mad
cow disease lawsuit in Texas (where she putatively met Dr. Phil). She has
promoted such insane programs as The Secret-but apparently hasn't yet
mastered the art of positively thinking her way to permanent thinness. She has
promoted herself in a quasi-therapist role on very many episodes of her show
in which she takes on quite the little humanistic persona. Need I go on? And let
me state that most consistently when I ask students to tell me where they
learned some bit of information about psychology (i.e., listening to Mozart
increases our intelligence, vaccinations can cause autism, sugar causes
hyperactivity in children, etc. etc.) the most frequently cited source is Oprah!
I rest my case.
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
619-260-4006
[email protected]
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