Hypocritical NY Times Condemns GOP Candidate ‘Quack’ Dr. Oz in Page One Hit

It New York Times2022, is getting an anti Republican hit piece in the mail. Correspondent Trip Gabriel devoted nearly 2,000 words to the U.S. Senate campaign of Dr. Oz, the television doctor who is now a candidate in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary, for a front-page story Monday, “Dubious Advice From TV Doctor In Senate Hunt.”

There is a lot of evidence that shows the Covid-19-treating malaria drugs, hydroxychloroquine (and chloroquine), were ineffective and could pose risks.

In the first months of the pandemic Dr. Mehmet O, a celebrity doctor with a daytime television show, promoted the drug on Fox News. In the same be-the-best-you tone that he used to promote miracle weight-loss cures on “The Dr. Oz Show,” he elevated limited studies that he said showed wondrous promise.

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When a Veterans Affairs study showed that Covid-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine were more likely to die than untreated patients, that advocacy came to an abrupt halt.

Oz stopped advertising the drug when more information was available. Scandalous!

As Dr. Oz jumped last month into the Republican primary for Senate in Pennsylvania, where his celebrity gives him an important advantage in a crucial race, he tied his candidacy to the politics of the pandemic. He appealed to conservatives’ anger at mandates and shutdowns, and at the “people in charge” who, he said, “took away our freedom.”

(One poll shows Oz as leading early Republican group.

But the entry into the race of the Cleveland-born heart surgeon…also brought renewed scrutiny to the blemishes on his record as one of America’s most famous doctors: his long history or dispensing questionable medical advice.

Gabriel refused to let the hydroxychloroquine leave.

His ebullient speech often consists of broad claims made on thin evidence. This is especially true in cases like the one involving hydroxychloroquine. Studies he relied upon were found to be flawed and he was forced to retract his assertions.

This was hypocritical given the TimesThe threat of arsenic found in apple juice was something Apple took seriously.

He has warned parents that apple juice contained unsafe levels of arsenic, advice that the Food and Drug Administration called “irresponsible and misleading.”

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….misinformation about the coronavirus emanating from the Trump White House and conservative news sites helped politicize the nation’s response to the pandemic, with deadly consequences in many Republican areas of the country.

Although Dr. Oz argued strongly for Fox masks and vaccinations, his support of early unproven treatments sharply contrasted with infectious-disease specialists like Dr. Fauci, who advised caution.

That’s rich, given Dr. Fauci himself insisted the public shouldn’t be wearing masks, to preserve them for health care workers.

Gabriel played around with statistics to lay still more death at Dr. Oz’s feet.

Pennsylvania is no different. In Pennsylvania as elsewhere in the nation, those counties which voted strongly for Trump in 2020 saw lower rates of vaccination and higher rates from Covid.

Gabriel found a surely unbiased source (a potential election rival) to call Dr. Oz “a quack.”

“I can’t believe he took the same oath that I did when we graduated,” said Dr. Val Arkoosh…Who are you? Running in the Democratic Primary for Senate. “That oath is about first doing no harm and always putting your patients first. I just think he’s a quack, to be honest.”

Incidentally, Dr. Oz’s career was launched on Oprah Winfrey’s show. The paper will pursue the liberal-leaning host who launched the dangerous Dr. Oz.

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