{"id":8664,"date":"2013-08-11T13:35:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2013-08-11T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T19:35:06","slug":"dr-oz-a-charlatan-disguised-as-a-physician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/dr-oz-a-charlatan-disguised-as-a-physician\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz, a charlatan disguised as a physician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your timely postings of Jewish news, which I generally find thoughtful and useful. However, you recently featured a story about <a title=\"The wonderful visit of Oz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/the-wonderful-visit-of-oz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Oz visiting Israel<\/a>. While I have no objection to stories about visiting Israel, I object to Dr. Oz. He is basically a charlatan, disguised as a physician.<\/p>\n<p>He has achieved fame and fortune. He does this by dishing out advice. His \u201cadvice\u201d might charitably be described as \u201cnot his area of expertise\u201d (heart surgery). But actually much of his advice is quackery and pseudoscience. He promotes alternative medicine, numerology, homeopathy, supplements, naturopathy and more. These are not only unproven, they are dangerous if unsuspecting people substitute them for real medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, his success reflects the growing anti-intellectual trend in this country and the world. Considering the high proportion of Nobel laureates among Jews and the high intellectual standards to which we aspire, in my opinion, covering such a person in your newsletter gives the appearance of condoning him and thereby demeans your publication.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<br \/>\nMarion Freistadt, PhD, MBA<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Dr.%20Oz%2C%20a%20charlatan%20disguised%20as%20a%20physician\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1485,8790,3448,445,3449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}