A Group of Doctors Tried to Get Dr. Oz Ousted from Columbia University

A letter to the school questions his judgment.

Saying that Dr. Oz “has repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine, as well as baseless and relentless opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops,” a group of physicians sent a letter to Columbia University this week saying the school should promptly dismiss him.

Dr. Mehmet Oz is famous thanks to his daytime talk show and his own magazine, and accomplished due to a career as a heart surgeon and his position as vice chair of the Department of Surgery at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.

But

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