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Dr. Oz responded to criticism recently for his baseless endorsements of various “miracle weight loss cures.” His response to claims that he was hawking crap and selling it as magic were contradictory and generally evasive. John Oliver covered the situation during his show, Last Week Tonight, and the parallels to e-cig debates were surprising.

You can check out the piece right here:

After the committee hearing last week, it’s interesting to watch something like this. Dietary supplements tend to fall outside the reach of much regulation. Politicians deride them from their dubious effects and common complications. There were even some pretty major political fights over what qualified as reasonable regulation of the industry.

In general, I fall down on the side of regulation is good. For e-cigs, regulation would ideally ensure that e-liquids were impurity free, labels were accurate, and devices were of reasonable quality. For supplements, regulation would ideally ensure that, for instance, a third of the products actually had the ingredients in them that were listed on the label.

Still, it’s interesting to see a debate go almost exactly the same about two different products — one which I defend and believe in and one that I am skeptical of at best.

John Oliver could use some better material, but it’s still an interesting watch for those familiar with thee e-cig debate.