One of the more famous residents of New Jersey's Cliffside Park is celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz. Dr. Oz is a candidate for the US Senate in Pennsylvania.
I used to live in Cliffside Park with my daughter's family, even though it was in the rented district lower than Dr. Oz's mansion, while moving back and forth to work in New York.
So, Dr. Oz and I have many things in common. We are both doctors. We both work in New York. We both spend a lot of time at Cliffside Park.
There are also several differences: I'm not suddenly claiming I'm a Pennsylvania resident to run for the U.S. Senate, I care for children with cancer and not trained as a cardiac surgeon, and Dr. Contrary to this, no one has shown evidence that I do not believe in the role of science in the basis of the advice I give to my patients.
It's this last difference that bothers me - and should seriously upset voters.
Dr. Oz's Advice
The single most damaging study of Dr. Oz and his TV money-maker The Dr. Oz Show was published in the prestigious British Medical Journal in 2014. A group of scientists from Canada's Alberta Medical School studied what Dr. Oz's show and whether there was any scientific evidence to support him.
Dr. Oz usually gives general medical advice, dietary advice and weight loss tips. He recommended consulting a health care professional only 9 percent of the time—in contrast to another TV advice-delivery show called The Doctors, where the show recommends consulting a health care professional 33 percent of the time. It seems that Dr. Oz thinks he knows best.
Most importantly, the researchers found that either Dr. There was no scientific evidence to support the advice given in the Oz show or evidence that 67.6 percent of the advice given was refuted by science.
'Dangerous crook'
If it's not so bad that the advice Dr. Oz gives you is wrong, then maybe it should give you pause that this candidate for the US Senate gives advice without acknowledging the crap he's giving or his TV Show guests have financial conflicts of interest.
These crimes are well documented in an article in the Journal of Ethics of the American Medical Association. Oz was reprimanded at a 2014 congressional hearing, for misinterpreting weight loss interventions.
Senator Claire McCaskill told him, "I don't know why you have to say this stuff because you know it's not true." "So why, when you have this amazing megaphone and this amazing ability to communicate, why would you cheapen your show by saying things like that?"
Ten prominent physicians wrote to the medical school dean at Columbia University in New York that Dr. Oz was endangering public health, had demonstrated contempt for medical and scientific evidence, and had his faculty appointment revoked. should be granted (Colombia took no action, citing academic freedom").
The Journal of Ethics article concludes "Ozz is a dangerous rogue... He has told mothers that their baby apple juice contained dangerous levels of arsenic (there wasn't) and suggested that green coffee was a cause for obesity. 'Miracle' is the cure.
Federal regulators discover data converting hyped coffee bean evidence… Dr. Oz also featured two guests on his show who claimed that genetically modified foods were causing cancer (despite repeated safety reports) No adverse effects were found).
Ineligible
An editorial in the Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association described Dr. Oz's promotion of useless homeopathic remedies, how he repeatedly hosted shows with psychics who claimed to communicate with the dead and spirits. and refute the bizarrely bizarre belief that each part of the eye corresponds to a part of the iris body and that a person's health can be diagnosed by examining the areas of the iris.
Forbes magazine published a list of Dr. Oz's "Wackiest Medical Beliefs".
The banner headline on Dr. Oz's senatorial campaign website announces that he is "Dr. Oz" and tells potential voters that "I have spent my career in medicine to empower people to take control of their lives." "
He has actually spent much of his career trading his medical credentials, as the editorial author wrote in the Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association, "preventing or delaying a proper diagnosis, providing false hope and Encouraging people to do a lot of damage. To waste money on useless treatment."
Promoting useless treatments in traveling medicine shows does not qualify someone to help write our country's laws.