Dr. Oz to Oprah: "Actually, you're wrong."

[Note: you can see a better report of the minimarathon and pictures of the day here at Meredith's blog]

Here is a little incident that Oprah, Michael J. Fox, and the media are trying to forget.

A few weeks ago Fox was on Oprah's show to tell his story of having Parkinson's. He is a big supporter of embryonic stem cell research, claiming he trusts the science community to preform stem cell extractions ethically (what great faith he has). She, too, is vocal about the necessity of embryonic stem cell research.

So of course anything medical that Oprah features warrants a visit from Dr. Oz, her resident health expert and regular guest. Yet Dr. Oz didn't agree with either Oprah or Fox. Rather, he let them know he was going to rattle some cages by saying adult stem cells are the answer for regenerating damaged and diseased tissue.

Oz told us what so many advocates of adult stem cells already know: embryonic stem cells can turn into anything once in the body (even cancerous tumors), adult stem cells don't seem to have a rejection rate, and there are several cases of people's own tissue being used to treat their injuries or illnesses.

Him saying this made Oprah and Michael J. Fox look irritated to say the least and it is no surprise Oprah.com chopped up Dr. Oz's statements to make it seem like he was speaking of stem cells in general rather than adult vs. embryonic stem cells.

I encourage you to see the clip for yourself, make of it what you will. Just wanted to let people know since you will not likely hear about it in the news.