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Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think Oprah Winfrey is a bad person. Far from it. She has used her fame and fortune to help perform many good deeds. But it cannot be denied that her fame and fortune has also been accumulated by helping provide an open platform for quackery. In doing so, she has helped promote junk science that, at best, have led to people being conned out of their money, and at worse, caused them needless suffering and even death.



Oprah may not be responsible for everything her guests have said and done, but she remains complicit by providing them a national platform to spread their harmful pseudoscience. At best, if she believed in any of that nonsense, that makes her naïve; and if she didn’t believe in any of it, at worse, that makes her negligent.



Even then, none of this makes her irredeemable. All she would have to do to absolve herself of these transgressions would be to simply denounce her former guests, apologize for providing them airtime, and perhaps even use a small fraction of a percent of her wealth to fund scientific awareness and research. But not once, not even once, has she offered the simplest of apologies. Through it all, she has remained silent, and this has made her all the more complicit.



Because of this, I cannot with a clean conscience purchase a ticket to a movie where she has a lead role, and which will no doubt reward her with even more money than she already has, most of which was accumulated by helping spread pseudoscience, and thus de-legitimizing actual science.



Does this mean I will never watch or review this movie? No. I probably will watch it someday, but not if it means buying a movie ticket or DVD/Blu-Ray. Perhaps once it come out on Netflix or the new Disney streaming service. Or perhaps once my local library offers a free showing. Until then, not a single dime will go towards this movie, and in turn, to Oprah Winfrey.