He’s popular on daytime television but apparently not among some colleagues in the medical field.
Dr. Mehmet Oz should be fired from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons – or at least removed as vice chair of the Department of Surgery – a group of doctors told the university in a letter last week, The Daily Pennsylvanian reports.
The group was led by Henry Miller of Stanford University, and it called Oz unqualified because of his “disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine” and his promotion of “quack treatments.”
The doctors said Oz peddles treatments “in the interest of personal financial gain”:
“Dr. Oz is guilty of either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgments about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both,” the letter concluded. “Whatever the nature of his pathology, members of the public are being misled and endangered, which makes Dr. Oz’s presence on the faculty of a prestigious medical institution unacceptable.”
Columbia is defending Oz on academic-freedom grounds, while Oz himself wrote on Facebook – apparently in response to the letter – that his show provides “multiple points of view,” which “doesn’t sit well with certain agendas which distort the facts”:
For example, I do not claim that GMO foods are dangerous, but believe that they should be labeled like they are in most countries around the world. I will address this on the show next week.
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