The Wrap uses the term "embattled" about Dr. Mehmet Oz ever since current and former members of the American Council on Science and Health spearheaded an effort to get Columbia University to reconsider his faculty status due to his promotion of "miracle" vegetables, homeopathy and more suspect treatment.
It's a fair term, he is embattled, much as the evidence-based science and health community has been embattled trying to undo the damage he does five days a week.
Now he claims that pushing unsubstantiated supplements, fads and products is "freedom of speech." Perhaps it is. It just isn't science or medicine.
The group of doctors from Stanford University, the American Council on Science and Health, UNC and elsewhere co-signed a letter to Columbia last week calling for Oz s dismissal from the med school, where he currently serves as vice chairman of the surgery department.
Chief among their concerns were Oz s endorsement of ineffective holistic treatments and weight loss fads, as well as regular warnings about dangerous genetically modified foods despite science to the contrary.
Dr. Oz Fires Back at Doctor Critics: We Will Not Be Silenced by LA Ross, The Wrap
