Mehmet Oz, MD, has sown misinformation about COVID treatments, weight loss hacks and unproven supplements. He has invested in drug companies, even as he has publicly taken aim at Big Pharma, and has profited from a medical device that he helped invent but that has been subject to several recalls. Over roughly two decades in the public eye, Oz has drawn the ire of medical experts, members of Congress and even his own peers, including a group of 10 doctors who called for him to be fired from a faculty position at Columbia University, arguing he had shown a “disdain for science." The university quietly cut its public ties with Oz in 2022.
