The study behind the green coffee extract diet pill endorsed by Dr. Oz was falsified.
The study behind the green coffee extract diet pill endorsed by Dr. Oz was falsified.
Researchers hired to prove that supplements were effective weight loss aids admitted that their actual research produced no verifiable results.
They’ve since retracted their favorable, yet bogus, findings.
Dr. Oz began promoting the pound dropping solution in May of 2012.
His endorsement helped the pills’ maker sell about half a million bottles of them.
Criticisms of the product came almost immediately, prompting Dr. Oz to perform a small study of his own.
He took 100 female volunteers from his studio audience, gave half of them placebos and the other half the green coffee extract, and tracked their progress over a couple of weeks.
At the end of the mini trial he reported that the participants who had taken the coffee pills lost twice as much weight as those who didn’t.
More recently, Oz defended his endorsement of the product at a Senate hearing.
Even though he was involved in spreading the falsified information, it’s unlikely he will face charges for its promotion because he too believed the research.
