[Dr. Mehmet] Oz garnered a number of critics over the years for his statements on [his] show. Most notably, 10 medical doctors wrote a letter to Columbia in 2015 urging the university to cut ties with him, arguing Oz is “guilty of either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgements about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both.” Two years later, three doctors wrote in the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics that to the medical and political establishment, “Dr. Oz is a dangerous rogue unfit for the office of America’s doctor.”
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… Timothy Caulfield, research director of the University of Alberta’s Heath Law Institute, argued in Scientific American that Oz’s brand of “wellness woo” is not harmless.
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“Misinformation spouting celebrities seem to be a GOP favorite,” Caulfield wrote. “This move is very on brand for both Oz and the Republican Party.”
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Other stances are informed by his experience as a doctor. In 2013, he urged an audience of governors not to let their states hire smokers, claiming it would reduce their health care budgets by 15% within five years. In the same speech, he said he’d decided years earlier never to operate on smokers.
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