He was a multi millionaire for years, he's a heart surgeon and professor. He did years of good shows, explaining medical issues and ailments not just supplements. Don't be so angry just because he got called in by Trump.
Most of his "medical advice" was discredited and was simply shit the supplements industry paid him to do. Hence the $20M mansion.
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Medical claims and controversies
Main article:
Medical claims on The Dr. Oz Show
Oz was heavily criticized by Senator
Claire McCaskill in a hearing on consumer fraud in diet product advertising.
While Oz himself has not been found to be involved in medical weight loss
scams, he has made statements that were exploited by scammers who have used his image and quotes to sell products falsely marketed for weight loss.
[83][84] During a 2014 Senate hearing on consumer protection, Senator
Claire McCaskill said that "the scientific community is almost monolithic against you" for airing segments on weight loss products that are later cited in advertisements, concluding that Oz plays a role, intentional or not, in perpetuating these scams. McCaskill expressed concern with Oz that he was "melding medical advice, news, and entertainment in a way that harms consumers."
[85][86] He has been a spokesman and advisor for the website
RealAge.com, which
The New York Times has criticized for its pharmaceutical marketing practices.
[84]
In 2012, Oz entered into an arrangement with
Usana Health Sciences, a
multi-level marketing nutrition company which has been accused of being a
pyramid scheme.
[87] Oz was paid over $50 million over a five year period to promote Usana products on his show.
[88][89]
During the
COVID-19 pandemic, Oz's television appearances influenced Trump's decision-making,
[90] and he became an informal advisor to the Trump administration.
[91][92][93] Oz had promoted the use of
hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug,
[94] as a cure for COVID-19 on more than 25
Fox News broadcasts in March and April 2020.
[95][96][97] Trump claimed to be taking the drug in May 2020.
[98] In June 2020, the
Food and Drug Administration revoked emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine, saying that it was "no longer reasonable to believe" that the drug was effective against COVID-19 or that its benefits outweighed "known and potential risks".
[99][100][101] Oz also owns at least $630,000 of stock in two companies that manufacture or distribute hydroxychloroquine, Thermo Fisher and
McKesson Corporation.
[102]
In April 2020, Oz appeared on Fox News with
Sean Hannity and said that reopening schools in the United States might be worth the increased number of deaths it would cause. Referencing an article published in the medical journal
The Lancet, Oz said, "I just saw a nice piece in
The Lancet [medical journal] arguing that the opening of schools may only cost us 2–3% in terms of total mortality."
[103] Oz's comments provoked a backlash online, and he apologized, saying he had misspoken and that his goal was "to get our children safely back to school."
[104]
COVID-19
In March 2020, Oz suggested that
hydroxychloroquine, a drug typically used to treat rheumatological conditions and as an anti-malarial, could be used to treat COVID-19 as well. In April 2020, he called for the reopening of schools. Oz has however promoted the
efficacy of wearing masks and of getting
vaccinated against the virus.
[163]
He initially praised
Anthony Fauci as a "pro" and lauded his role in combating the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Upon running for the Senate, however, Oz changed his tone on Fauci and referred to him as a "tyrant".
[164] Oz said in 2022 when running for the Senate that "it's time we get back to normal".
[163]
Environment and climate change
In 2017, Oz co-authored an article that highlighted the threats of
climate change including extreme heat, wildfires and floods. When running for the Senate, he
downplayed the risk that
carbon dioxide poses when contributing to the role of the
greenhouse effect in
contributing to climate change.
[167] In a March 2022 campaign event, Oz claimed that carbon dioxide is "not the problem".
[168]
Public reception
Oz has faced criticism for his promotion of
pseudoscience,
[16][94] including
homeopathy,
[222][223] and
alternative medicine.
[86] Popular Science[224] and
The New Yorker[64] have published critical articles on Oz for giving non-scientific advice.
[64] HuffPost has accused Oz of promoting
quackery.
[225]
A 2014 study published in the
British Medical Journal found that medical talk shows such as
The Dr. Oz Show and
The Doctors often lack adequate information on the specific benefits or evidence of their claims. Forty episodes of each program from early 2013 were evaluated, determining that evidence supported 46 percent, contradicted 15 percent, and was not found for 39 percent of the recommendations on
The Dr Oz Show.
[13] Unfounded claims included saying apple juice had unsafe levels of arsenic and cell phones could cause breast cancer.
[94]
Oz was awarded the
James Randi Educational Foundation's
Pigasus Award 2009 for his promotion of
reiki.
[226][227][228][229] However, he used reiki for moral support to patients in the operating room, and claimed that he was unfairly attacked.
[230]
Oz has been criticized for the guests he has invited onto
The Dr. Oz Show, including psychics, faith healers, peddlers of unproven or disproven medical treatments, and
anti-vaccination activists, including
Joseph Mercola,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and
Christiane Northrup.
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