Since “Jeopardy!” an attempt to dr. Enlarging Mehmet Oz’s upcoming host presentation in the program, social media users slammed the TV star for “Dangerous“And shilling”medical misinformation for profit. ”
Oz, a former health expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, has long been a controversial figure in the medical world. In addition to the repeated rogue weight loss products and a platform to ‘debate’ the benefits of conversion therapy, a study from the British Medical Journal in 2014 declared half of its medical advice to be ‘unfounded or wrong’. In 2015, a group of fellow doctors even wrote to the dean of medicine in Columbia saying the partnership with him was ‘unacceptable’.
More recently, Oz – who appointed Donald Trump to the Council on Sport, Fitness and Nutrition in 2018 – suggested that schools should reopen during the coronavirus pandemic because ‘only’ 2 to 3% more people could die.
Oz’s choice as a ‘Jeopardy!’ host is part of the larger effort to get different hosts to act as stand-ins until a more permanent post takes over for Alex Trebek, the beloved longtime host who died of pancreatic cancer last year.
In February, “Jeopardy!” issued a press release announcing that Oz would stay for a period, and he praised himself as the winner of 10 Daytime Emmy Awards for ‘The Dr. Oz Show ‘and boasts of his role as a treating physician at the New York Presbyterian-Columbia Medical Center and as the author of’ more than 400 original publications, chapters and medical books’.
The announcement caused an initial ripple that The Ringer asked to deal with the former ‘Jeopardy!’ To speak. participants last month about the decision to put Oz in for Trebek.
Lindsey Shultz, a 2019 quadruplet who works as a public health analyst, told The Ringer: ‘When you made a career in the popular media by relying on the best evidence in unproven drugs – and in the worst case implicitly causing your audience to doubt the process that the rest of us are facing and trying to defend at the end of an entire calendar year – I’m not sure a program based on facts is the best place for you. ‘
Later, more than 500 former “Jeopardy!” participants signed a letter published on Medium to resist Oz’s choice of host.
“Dr. Oz represents what has become a dubious trend in America: raising the capable talking head at the expense of academic accuracy and consensus,” reads the letter, which later calls his appointment a slap in the face to all involved.
When the ‘Jeopardy!’ Twitter account shared Oz’s introduction for his first appearance Monday, and critics responded by giving him a ‘dangerous, self-enriching fraud ” and a “charlatan huckster of pseudo-science. ”
The name of actor LeVar Burton has even started to trend on Twitter because people are announcing that they want the “Reading Rainbow” host to host “Jeopardy!” instead of Oz.
“Danger!” and LeVar Burton did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
Prior to Oz’s performance, Katie Couric hosted two weeks and raised $ 230,504 to raise money for cancer. The cumulative profits made during Oz’s appearance go to HealthCorps, a national nonprofit committed to eliminating health inequalities in endangered communities by educating and empowering students by giving them tools to improve their physical condition. and improve mental health. ‘
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