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Sunday, December 26, 2021

‘Magic’ Weight-Loss Pills and Covid Cures: Dr. Oz Under the Microscope

The celebrity physician, a candidate in Pennsylvania's Republican primary for Senate, has a long history of dispensing dubious medical advice on his daytime show and on Fox News.

...Over the years, Dr. Oz, 61, has faced a bipartisan scolding before a Senate committee over claims he made about weight-loss pills, as well as the opposition of some of his physician peers, including a group of 10 doctors who sought his firing from Columbia University's medical faculty in 2015, arguing that he had "repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine." Dr. Oz questioned his critics' motives and Columbia took no action, saying it did not regulate faculty members' participation in public discourse...

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