(No video is available on Oz’s website for either of these episodes, curiously.) A damning study by the British Medical Journal in 2014 analyzed 40 episodes of the show, randomly picked 80 of the 479 health recommendations offered during those programs, and concluded that only 46% of them had any supporting evidence, while 39% had none, and 15% had evidence contradicting them. The show is mainly comprised of weight loss and anti-cancer tips, although occasionally it dabbles in other topics, such as gay conversion therapy and, uh, performing a live brain scan on the Long Island Medium. Not everything adds up.”Įverything certainly does not add up with the vast and sundry catalog of miracle cures that Oz has touted on his TV show, whose junk science has left a long tail of criticism. But this is one of the fundamental disconnects between Western medicine and what people often refer to as complementary medicine. As a 2013 New Yorker profile notes, “With his father-in-law’s encouragement, he began to explore music therapy, energy fields, and therapeutic touch, and he began to offer them to his surgical patients.” When the author of the piece points out that he is not aware of any evidence showing that Reiki, a Japanese form of energy healing, actually works, Oz shoots back: “Neither am I, if you are talking purely about data. What might put Oz over the top in a Senate race, though, at least with the fringier element of the GOP base, is that for a doctor, he doesn’t seem especially committed to science.Īfter marrying his Reiki-master wife, Lisa Oz (née LeMole), Oz became increasingly interested in the alternative therapies that would color the rest of his career. Over the course of his celebrated career, he cofounded a special cardiac center within Columbia and secured 11 patents. He graduated from Harvard in the mid-1980s, before eventually joining Columbia University Medical Center, where he earned a reputation as a talented heart surgeon. Smarts can help a candidacy too, and Oz certainly has those. He’s won over 20 Emmy Awards for his eponymous TV show his series of books, starting with 2004’s You: The Owner’s Manual, have sold millions of copies and in 2008, Esquire listed him as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century. If staggering popularity were all it took to win a Senate seat, Oz could start engraving his nameplate already. Watch my announcement video now! /yLhKsZm9sl
I’m a world-class surgeon, fighter, and health care advocate stepping forward to cure our country’s ills. Senate in Pennsylvania because America needs a Conservative Republican to cure what’s wrong with Washington.
His campaign could be the most dangerous procedure he’s performed yet.
For his next act, as announced via Twitter on Tuesday, Dr.
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