Ugh Dr. Oz. I used to work in a loose leaf tea shop and that man, while he was good for business, his "customers" drove us crazy. it wouldn't matter how much you explained tea to them, the fact it all comes from the same plant and has the same basic benefit (of course different types of processing would either negate or enhance certain benefits). Nope, wouldn't matter, they wanted that exact brand or it wouldn't work, according to Dr. Oz. sigh So the moral of this story isn't the one charlatan pushing the product, it's the hordes of masses so eager to believe this one thing, this one particular brand will be the miraculous easy cure they've been praying for.

Too bad they won't stop him and all the scammers out there pushing woowoo.

The ultimate solution to the scams is to give out basic information in schools. If you don't want to fall for diet scams, learn nutrition. If you don't want to fall for financial scams, learn about financial markets, if you don't want to fall for educational scams, learn about schools and education. I'd forget about teaching the specifics about current fakes (scams evolve) but giving sound information about the subject.