Saturday, January 31, 2026

Bari Weiss new hire as contributor at CBS News is a well-known quack

 
Headline:  The Guardian, 1/29/2026 

Jason Wilson reports:
Among the new hires at CBS announced by Bari Weiss is a doctor who has claimed that he has reduced his biological age by 20 years with therapies including cold plunges; that cod liver oil can treat autism and that conditions like Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with the kind of nutritional supplements he also sells on his online store. 
Dr Mark Hyman, who has been called a “germ theory denialist” by the medical author Harriet Hall, and has been brought on as a contributor in Weiss’s revamping of CBS’s news division. He is perhaps the most prominent exponent of so-called “functional medicine” (FM), an alternative medicine that the oncological surgeon David Gorski has described as “pure quackery”. 
Like some other moves at CBS, his hiring is likely to win favor with the Donald Trump administration. [emphasis added]
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According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'cheeseball', as in something that is inferior in quality, occurred in 1986

 
Merriam-Webster entry for 'cheeseball'.

Headline:  Variety, 1/30/2026

Owen Gleiberman offers his take:
“Melania” is a documentary that never comes to life. It’s a “portrait” of the First Lady of the United States, but it’s so orchestrated and airbrushed and stage-managed that it barely rises to the level of a shameless infomercial. Is it cheesy? At moments, but mostly it’s inert. It feels like it’s been stitched together out of the most innocuous outtakes from a reality show. There’s no drama to it. It should have been called “Day of the Living Tradwife.”
 
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Critics and viewers are clearly split on the merits of "Melania"

 
Rotten Tomatoes

Daily Beast, 1/31/2026

Melania, which covers the first lady in the 20 days leading up to her husband’s second inauguration in 2025, was widely panned, including by the Daily Beast’s Kevin Fallon, who called it “a level of insipid propaganda that almost resists review; it’s so expected and utterly pointless.”


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