Dr. Oz Weighing GOP Senate Run

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11-9-2021

Dr. Oz weighing GOP Senate run despite history
of ‘quack solutions’.

Oprah Winfrey crowned him "America's Doctor,"
but Mehmet Oz, better known on daytime TV and
Fox News as "Dr. Oz" wants to become Senator Oz, despite what many might see as insurmountable liabilities.

Oz has an MD and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, but he has spent years promoting what even one right wing website calls "quack solutions," including hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, a debunked "cure."

The headlines alone are damning. Here's just a small sampling:

Why Is Alleged Quack Dr. Oz the Face of NBC's 'Coronavirus Crisis Team'?

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Oz is offering Trump advice for handling the coronavirus. Here are 8 times he's made false or baseless medical claims.

The American Medical Association is finally taking a stand on quacks like Dr. Oz'Jeopardy!'
Fans Are Furious 'Dangerous Quack' Dr Oz Is Hosting the ShowPhysicians Urge Columbia To Fire Dr. Oz
For Promoting 'Quack Treatments'
A New Low for Dr. Oz.

Even the right wing website The Washington Free Beacon ran a damning report on Oz's Senate run exploration.

Essentially likening him to a carpet-bagger, Free Beacon calls Oz a "Cleveland-born, Delaware-raised, and New Jersey-based" … "political newcomer who has donated to both Democrats and Republicans":

He owns a mansion—and is registered to vote—in neighboring New Jersey and bought a vacation home in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2015, according to public records. He does not own property in Pennsylvania,
at least under his own name.

Oz has a non-permanent voter registration in Pennsylvania connected to a Montgomery County address that appears to belong to his mother-in-law.

“Critics," the outlet adds, “are likely to home in not only on Oz's flimsy ties to the Keystone State but also on the quack solutions—miracle cures for everything from fat loss (raspberry ketones, green coffee beans) to longevity (red palm oil)—that he has hawked to an enormous audience amidst serious and sensible medical advice."

Oz, they add, has "developed a relationship with
the country's president, the strongman Recep
Tayyip Erdogan."

Erdogan, a Trump favorite, is widely viewed as
an anti-democracy authoritarian dictator.

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12-12-2021

Dr. Oz flips out after Philadelphia newspaper omits 'doctor' from his name: 'They want to silence me'.

Mehmet Oz, a celebrity doctor who is running as a Republican for U.S. Senate, lashed out at a newspaper on Monday after the title of "Dr." was omitted from his name.

During an appearance on Fox News, Oz accused The Philadelphia Inquirer of trying to silence him because the paper has announced that it would refer to him
as "Mehmet Oz."

"They want to silence me," he told Fox News host Steve Doocy. "And I tell you, it is shocking that it would make them that uncomfortable this early in my campaign but I think it's reflective of the movement we represent."

"They're trying to cancel you," Doocy agreed.

"People see it. I mean, you can't look away," Oz continued. "Why would the Inquirer get involved in this process? Why would they not want to call me
Dr. Oz. Everyone knows I'm Dr. Oz. But they don't think it's the right thing to do. They think it gives
me an unfair advantage."

For its part, the Inquirer has said that it would refer to all candidates the same way.

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12-26-2021

Questions about Dr. Oz surface from
those wondering if he's just as big of a
fraud as the Wizard of Oz.

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" exclaimed the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz as
he tried to dodge accountability from Dorothy and
her friends. Behind the magical floating head and
fiery distractions was nothing more than a fraud.

That's the way a New York Times exposé painted Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Öz, the TV doctor running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania after years of allegations, lawsuits and controversy around his "miracle cures" that he has advertised on his shows.

Now that he's running for the Senate, Oz is saying that he's running as a conservative because the "people in charge" are responsible for taking away "our freedom."
It is leaving those on the left and right with questions about where he stands on issues involving science and medicine.

There was a controversy involving the doctor's promotion of
When the results came in and Dr. Oz was clearly proven wrong, he went silent on this issue.
He never told his followers or the Fox audiences
he spoke to that he was wrong.

The conservative site Townhall wants to know if Dr. Oz intends to take a clear stand on abortion, or even if he's ever performed an abortion.

This week, Breitbart attacked Oz for asking for empathy for transgender people. The GOP hasn't been kind to trans people, who are frequently ignored in activism over LGBTQ issues.

Trump barred trans service members from the armed forces. Meanwhile, school boards are refusing to
allow trans youth to use the bathroom of their choosing under the false assumption that they'll sexually assault someone while relieving themselves.

The conservative outlet the National Review is asking questions about Oz's connections to the Turkish government, which they said deserves to be examined closer.

Oz lost it when a Pennsylvania publication refused
to use the prefix "Dr." when speaking about him. While the paper said that it applies that standard
to all candidates in all parties, it brought up questions about whether the doctor should be promoting his career given his past with quack medical claims.

The hydroxychloroquine flub was one of the more recent public mistakes the TV doctor made while claiming to be a man of science. Before a Senate committee in 2014, Oz was chided for peddling
bogus "weight-loss pills" and other scams.

Physician peers came out against him, including a group of 10 doctors who called for him to be fired from Columbia University’s medical faculty because he'd "repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine." It's a private institution and claimed that it didn't regulate factually outside
of their classrooms.

There was another incident in 2013 when Oz told women that carrying their cellphones in their bras would cause breast cancer. There was no scientific study to prove it either.

The Times exposé reported that over the years,
Oz has claimed that his advice was really just to "empower" the average American to take control
of their health.

At a time when U.S. television is overwhelmed
with pharmaceutical ads and the obesity epidemic
is sending desperate people searching for miracle
cures, Dr. Oz told people what they wanted to
hear.
In fact, he said as much when testifying to the Senate in 2014:
"My job on the show, I feel, is to be a cheerleader
for the audience." But people don't go to their doctor to hear a cheerleader. They go to the doctor to get the truth and both sides want to hear some from him.

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