The investigators found that fewer than half of Oz’s recommendations could be supported by legitimate scientific evidence. She hailed him as “America’s doctor.”Īfter Oz launched his show in 2009, he continued to push “miracle elixirs, homeopathy, imaginary energies and psychics who communicate with the dead,” author Kurt Andersen wrote for Slate.Īlarmed by Oz’s penchant for questionable science, a team of experts reviewed 80 on-air recommendations he had made, starting in 2013, for the British medical journal BMJ. Over the next few years, she featured him more than 60 more times, often wearing his surgical scrubs. Winfrey’s association with Oz goes back to 2004, when she first invited the handsome, Harvard-educated surgeon and Columbia University professor to be a health expert on her show, Hartmann reported. If that’s the case, Winfrey could take credit for her early support of a potentially successful candidacy, though others believe she deserves censure for her own role in “promoting pseudoscience that harms society,” as Hartmann said. “My training positioned me to make difficult decisions to help people in need and fight to empower my viewers,” he wrote.īecause he’s a celebrity, Oz easily becomes the likely Republican frontrunner for the Senate seat, the Washington Times reported. Oz also credited Winfrey with naming him her “health expert.” Her endorsement helped him start his own TV show, he added.

Senate: to help fix the problems and to help us heal.” “During the pandemic, I learned that when you mix politics and medicine, you get politics instead of solutions,” Oz said in his op-ed, published in the Washington Examiner. In line with the rhetoric of Trump supporters, Oz slammed the “elites” who “took away our freedom” by instituting lockdowns of parks, schools and businesses.

In his op-ed announcing his candidacy, Oz cited the handling of the pandemic by the “elites” as one reason he’s running for senator. Among other things, Oz, who describes himself as a moderate Republication, joined Donald Trump in promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus, though he later changed his mind.

Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Oz used his Winfrey-aided celebrity to become a fixture on Fox News and to dispense “dubious information” about the virus, Hartmann said. In this way, she is “almost singlehandedly responsible for the public prominence not only of Oz - a genuine doctor who became rich flogging medical misinformation,” Cooper added, but others. They and The Week writer Ryan Cooper said Oz has followed Winfrey’s template of successfully marketing New Age, alternative “woo-woo” healing and spirituality.

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