The Lizard of Oz
Mehmet Cengiz Öz [ is the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania and is the first Muslim candidate to be nominated by either major party for U.S. Senate . Oz's promotion of pseudoscience , including on the topics of alternative medicine , faith healing , and various paranormal beliefs, has earned him criticism from a number of medical publications and physicians.
Describing himself as a conservative Republican, Oz has taken mostly conservative positions since launching his campaign. He opposes abortion , the Affordable Care Act , and the legalization of recreational cannabis , while supporting school choice , hydraulic fracturing , closer relations with Israel , the right to bear arms , and federal protection of same-sex marriage .
In 2003, Oz was scheduled to present medical research regarding heart bypass surgery and heart-lung machines to the yearly conference of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery , but the presentation was withdrawn and for two years he was banned from further presentations to the association or publishing work in the association's medical journal.
Medical claims and controversies
Oz's image and quotes have been exploited by many weight loss product scammers . While he himself has not been found to be involved in these scams, he has made statements that were exploited by scammers. 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, and that she is "concerned that you are melding medical advice, news, and entertainment in a way that harms consumers.” He has been a spokesman and advisor for the website RealAge .com, which The New York Times has criticized for its pharmaceutical marketing practices.
During the COVID-19 pandemic , Oz's television appearances influenced Trump's decision-making, and he became an informal advisor to the Trump administration. Oz had promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine , an antimalarial drug, as a cure for COVID-19 on more than 25 Fox News broadcasts in March and April 2020. Trump claimed to be taking the drug in May 2020. 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”. Oz also owns at least $630,000 of stock in two companies that manufacture or distribute hydroxychloroquine, Thermo Fisher and McKesson Corporation.
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.” 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.”
In his campaign, he has called for immunologist Anthony Fauci , the Chief Medical Advisor to the President , to be fired and also opposed vaccine requirements.
On April 9, 2022, Oz's campaign was endorsed by former president Donald Trump . Oz's ties to Turkey, including his dual citizenship , were criticized by his Republican primary opponents. Oz called these issues a "distraction" and said that he will renounce his Turkish citizenship if elected, while his campaign called the attacks "pathetic and xenophobic".
In May 2022, Columbia University cut ties with Oz and removed his presence from their website.
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. He called for the reopening of schools in April of the same year. Oz has however promoted the efficacy of wearing masks and of getting vaccinated against the virus.
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”.
Healthcare
In 2022, Oz said that he would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act if he were elected to the Senate, and backed Medicare Advantage Plus .
In contrast, in 2009, Oz said "It should be mandatory that everybody in America have healthcare coverage. If you can't afford it, we have to give it to you…" And in 2010, Oz supported a government-backed healthcare system and was featured in an advertisement that promoted The Affordable Care Act , also known as Obamacare. Oz has said that the healthcare systems that he thinks work the best are Germany and Switzerland, which are both universal healthcare systems .
Public reception
Oz has faced criticism for his promotion of pseudoscience , homeopathy , and alternative medicine . Popular Science and The New Yorker have published critical articles on Oz for giving "non-scientific" advice. HuffPost has accused Oz of promoting quackery .
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 . Unfounded claims included saying apple juice had unsafe levels of arsenic and cell phones could cause breast cancer.
Oz was awarded the James Randi Educational Foundation 's Pigasus Award three times from 2009 to 2012 for his promotion of energy therapies, support of faith healing , psychic communication with the dead and "quack medical practices, paranormal belief, and pseudoscience".
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz
Dr. Oz is not just a money grubbing scammer, he is also a gigantic asshole who murdered puppies.
Fact Check: Was Dr. Oz Responsible for Cruelly Experimenting on Dogs?
Allegations have circulated implicating Oz in the cruel treatment of animals at Columbia University. PEOPLE talked to a former Columbia employee and sifted through reports to clarify his role
PEOPLE spoke with veterinarian Catherine Dell'Orto, who says that within weeks of her start as a post-doctoral fellow in the research labs at Columbia's Institute of Comparative Medicine in July 2001, she was horrified by what she saw.
Dell'Orto tells PEOPLE she witnessed the inhumane treatment of dogs in lab experiments investigating aspects of heart function over which Oz served in the role of "principal investigator" — including leaving dogs in pain and paralyzed for weeks, with no discernible research benefit, before they were euthanized or died.
"When someone makes the choice to use an animal in a research experiment they should be 100 percent committed to reducing any suffering that animal will experience," says Dell'Orto. "And I did not see that happening with Oz. I saw the opposite."
Columbia's website says that when one is named principal investigator of a research study, he or she "has overall responsibility for safety and compliance in his or her laboratory."
Dell'Orto says she has no personal knowledge to support online claims that research puppies cried out in pain as they were killed with no anesthesia. She says another lab worker, a veterinary technician whom she identified by name, claimed to have witnessed this, though PEOPLE has been unable to get in contact with the person alleged to be behind these claims.
It is that veterinary technician's account, says Dell'Orto, which PETA relied upon in a letter the group allegedly wrote to the USDA in 2003 . That letter recounted a complaint, from an unidentified whistle blower, that "a litter of fully conscious puppies" was placed in a plastic bag and killed with expired euthanasia medication injected directly into their hearts, and that the puppies "cried out as they received the IC injection" because it was done without any prior pain killer.
But Oz himself is not mentioned in this letter, nor is he mentioned in the USDA's $2,000 settlement agreement with Columbia in 2004 — a settlement which explicitly states that Columbia neither admits nor denies the USDA's allegation.
Dell'Orto tells PEOPLE that before she resigned in February of 2003, she saw about 30 dogs upon whom research was performed as part of procedures for which Oz was principal investigator.
She says she saw some of these dogs' chests opened so that pacemakers could be inserted into their hearts, "pacing them at a very high rate to induce heart failure."
Then, she says, "they were doing different treatments to see what worked."
"I didn't think it was good science," Dell'Orto says. "I didn't think the results that came from such experiments were worthy of adding to the scientific database. It was so poorly done."
She says she also saw some of these dogs left paralyzed for days or weeks, apparently suffering and in pain before death via euthanasia. They'd lose more than 20% of their body weight and were left struggling to breathe, she says, adding that in her opinion, the study "was not designed" to promptly euthanize dogs at the point that the experiments became inhumane.
But her complaint led to several findings. An April 22, 2003, report by Columbia — which was obtained by PEOPLE — found that two of the three dogs used in Oz's research, for which Dell'Orto had provided records, received "inadequate or questionable veterinary care."
One dog — whose chest was opened (called a sternotomy) and received radiofrequency ablation on July 17, 2002 — developed paralysis, lethargy, vomiting and renal failure, suffering for a week. But "the records do not show why the animal was kept alive" until euthanized a week later, on July 24.
Another dog, which underwent the same procedure on July 11, 2002, "was in chronic distress (paralyzed in hindquarters)" but kept alive for 29 days until euthanized.
"The records did not contain a rationale for keeping the animal alive in a paralyzed condition for a prolonged period of time," the investigative committee wrote.
https://people.com/politics/fact-check-dr-oz-role-columbia-university-dog-experiments/
Mehmet Oz moved in with his wife's family in 2022 so he could establish residency in Pennsylvania. Prior to that he lived in New Jersey (where he owns several houses). He also owns a house in Florida.
Does New Jersey really need three senators?
Please VOTE!
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I love dogs, therefore, I hate The Lizard of Oz.
Oz is scummy scumbag. I can't believe Oprah finally endorsed Fetterman.
Why do you find that hard to believe?
Oprah made The Lizard of Oz a television celebrity.
Oprah was quite good at making quacks into celebrities.
Oprah was even able to make Dr. Phil into a celebrity quack.
Exactly, I would have expected a strong, not tepid endorsement for Fetterman before voting started.
Yes, it's estimated that her endorsement got Obama at least an additional 1 million votes in the 2008 primary and put him over the top with Hillary.
Obama is NOT a quack.
Nevertheless, her endorsement put him over the top with Hillary.
I guess you're giving Oprah credit for giving the democrats a great nominee.
Of course, she helped him beat Hillary.
Finally being the operative word. While I was thrilled she did endorse him, I wish she would have done so much sooner. I believe he would have won with or without her endorsement though.
Same here and I left out the word finally in my original post. What took her so long?
I didn't leave out finally in my post I meant to say I can't believe that it took her so long to endorse him
"We're off to beat The Lizard, The deplorable Lizard called Oz. Because because because because because, because of terrible things he does!"
Now if only we could get him into that basket....
OMG!
What an asshole!
The fucking Lizard of Oz killed Dorothy's little dog Toto.
This carpetbagging moron told his supporters to call ten people and inspire them to vote for him - and to do it before the Steelers game … on their bye week. Lol!
At least he’s capable of putting a sentence together in recognizable English.
advantage: oz.
Keep mocking disabilities. It suits you.
...it goes hand in hand with his bullshit religion.
...it goes hand in hand with his bullshit religion.
God is green and he folds?
pointing out the truth is not mocking. Some of us aren’t so brainwashed by our partisanship that understand It’s okay to point out the emperor has no clothes.
it’s sad that his family and party exploit him rather than let him recover and regain some semblance of a a Normal life
but hey, you shill for a guy who celebrates the demise of roe vs wade, good for you.
Retrumplicans love to ridicule people with disabilities.
d in hand with his bullshit religion.
Couldn't have hoped for a better response.
Well done.
All religions are bullshit.
You mean like asking a paraplegic to stand and take a bow or wondering where a dead woman was in the crowd? Oh no it was a Democrat that did those things.
Your "whataboutism" sux.
Nobody was ridiculed in your lame comparisons.
Apparently you don't know what "ridicule" means.
ridicule
Fuckin' Traitor Trump has been walking around naked the second he said he could shoot someone on Seventh Avenue and folks would still vote for him. He counted on the abject stupidity of his supporters ... he was calling them ignorant co-conspirators to their faces and they didn't catch a clue. He's counted on stupid people to support his grift.
Fifth Avenue, Seventh isn’t very Trumpian.
You're right, of course. Especially if on the west side. Thank you for catching my error. I've made an error before. Once. 1972. February.
I thought I had made a mistake once, but I was wrong...
That was a good run for your money, cobaltblue.
That's perfect!
Trump naked in the Garment District!
Jimmy Kimmel Recounts Dr. Oz’s Story of the Time Trump Shoved a Woman Into a Mar-a-Lago Pool (Video)
On Monday night’s episode, Kimmel called Oz, the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania’s senate, “a total phony.” To prove it, he treated his audience to a story Oz told at a dinner party Kimmel had attended years ago, when Trump was running for office for the first time.
During one of Trump’s bashes at Mar-a-Lago, a woman approached her host. “He’s telling somebody else how good she looks or something, and [the guest] says, ‘Donald, how do I look?’ And he says, ‘You’d look better wet,’ and he shoves her in the pool,” Kimmel recalled Oz saying.
“He pushes this fully dressed older lady into the pool, and she’s humiliated,” he continued. As Oz’s wife Lisa helped the woman out of the pool, “Trump just looked on and laughed like a maniac.”
Kimmel closed out the story by doubling down on his first point.
“[Dr. and Lisa Oz] told us this story with disgust, they were disgusted, and now [Oz and Trump are] up on stage endorsing each other,” Kimmel said. “Isn’t that great? Lot of integrity there.”
Kimmel also hit back at Trump calling his show “dead” because Republicans no longer watch it during his monologue.
“Our show is so dead he’s gonna bury it next to his ex-wife at one of his golf courses,” Kimmel hit back. “You know what’s dead? I’ll tell you what’s dead. All those endangered animals your chinless son shot. That’s what’s dead. You know what’s dead? The look in your wife’s eyes when you beg her for sex on your birthday.”
“And I will say, in January our show will have been on for 20 years,” he continued. “You got kicked out after four. I’m on television, you’re on the toilet at your golf club screaming at yours.”
Wasn't that the best??!!?
Expect a call on Nov. 13th from a Republican asking you to vote for Oz … before the game.
Fetterman won!!!
That's a big, really important win. I'd like to see Don Jr.'s disgusting "mushy brain" words shoved down his throat.
Shapiro beat Matriano like 56% to 43%.
People are already asking Shapiro if he will be the first Jewish POTUS
Bernie Sanders said, "what am I, chopped liver?"
LOL. I ate a chopped liver sandwich for lunch today. Does anyone remember Joe LIeberman?
Oz was last seen slinking across the border back to NJ.
Which property?
He has to learn to toughen up and this is the place to do it, or kiss your ass good bye.
I remember that intersection, not sure if that was a bar or a barber shop back in the day....
The Lizard of OZ is a "New Jersey person" .
Here's a NJ Person getting her drunk on:
Like most NJ women, she sucks anything.
Wtf?! "She said she wanted a shot and we thought this was cute." Schoolkids dying across the country, and someone thinks this is amusing. What a bunch of self-absorbed tone deaf fucks.
I know of an unrequited love story between a gay bra-wearing addled man and his beard who loved him despite his self-loathing. After they were banned from where they were staying, they kept getting evicted after using false identities. Sad.
Yeah, it was so sad....
With his wealth, he will be fine. I guess it was just ego or a need for a hobby that he ran in the first place.
He probably thought he would be president or at least a resident of Pennsylvania.
Just wondering, how come none of you complained that the Wicked Witch of Chapaqua moved to New York state in order to campaign for the Senate.?
NY offered the best chances of a Senate election and Chappaqua offered a nice largely white town.
...because it was already so hard on Hilary leaving her native Scragorock.
To celebrate Oz's loss, I am hosting a guacamole charcuterie board party. At a dog park.
As Elmer Gantry said, ''I'm on my way''
What a perfect meme for my dog-park-guacamole-charcuterie-board party!
Gonna tease the dogs with those prepared meats and cheese eh.
LMAO
Indeed I am.
Had to lurv Donald blaming Melania for Oz ... Do y'all get it now, it ain't pocket science?
the fucking moron isn't accountable for anything he does.
And y'all complain about my typos! Sheesh?
... what typo? "lurv" comes from Woody Allen in Annie Hall and "pocket science" is a pun on rocket science.
Well I guess I'll have to take your word for it. I do hear you an expert at playing with things in or should I say just beneath your pockets
My friend…beware in taking on those whom will always leave you gasping for straws, if not gasping for breath.
Regardless of the miscommunication, what do you think of The Donald blaming Melanoma for his endorsement of "The Lizard of Oz"?
I wonder why Trump can't admit HE was wrong (it ain't rocket surgery).
Who's , Melanoma?
Besides that I don't know and don't particularly care what Trump says or does right now. He doesn't live in my head for free.
... plenty of vacancies there.
Really?
Since The Donald loves to give everyone nicknames ("sleepy Joe"), I gave his wife a nickname.
took you six years to come up with that all by yourself?
It was actually more like six seconds.
So just as I thought you are no better than he is b
barron: mommy, my friends at school say this is you on the interwebs.
melania: no, no, look at face. does look like me? not to worry babushka. we will leaf this hell soon when secret police take daddy away. and please dahlink, speak in native tongue without accent so we go to hide in slovenia next year.
Melania had a sleepover.
And they gave a ration of shit to Michelle Obama for wearing a sleeveless dress. I cropped the picture because I know we're a modest bunch.
Do you collect nude pics of First Ladies?
Two seconds on the 'net dude. Given a previous post of yours, I know you prefer your women dead in bed. Perhaps seeing a living breathing woman enjoying an erotic moment makes you annoyed and anxious. This is nothing compared to trump stating on audio and video he found his daughter titillating.
You mean First Lady. No other wife of a president has ever posed nude for public consumption.
Why yes, yes I do.
I have binders full of photos of naked First Ladies.
All of the photos are of Melanoma naked.
I really appreciate the lesbian poses.
Let the innuendo begin!
dammit
Word challenge: Unscramble the letters of pneis and buttsxe. If you got anything other than 'spine' and 'subtext,' let's talk.
I used to think a "sap sucker" was a wood pecker.
do you collect pictures of children?
“You mean First Lady.”
Actually the third ‘lady’, after Ivana and Marla.
Fitting given her husband’s fascination with third world shitholes, babbling in the third person, and running for a third term. Once, twice…three times a shady.
Oh I love that! More than "you can lead a ho' to water, but you can't make her think" even.
I believe I read somewhere that Ivana stated she was the "real" First Lady. Which made poor Melania frown. No small feat when Botoxed.
what's the over/under on melania renegotiating her prenup or filing for divorce after trump's announcement tomorrow?
gtfo the front page bump...