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The U.S. is in the grips of a historic measles surge, with more than 3,000 measles cases reported in 45 states across the country since the start of 2025. So far, two unvaccinated children have died from the disease. At least 920 people have been infected in South Carolina, and a similar number in Texas. In both states, nearly all infected individuals were unvaccinated.
Now Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is urging Americans to get the measles vaccine as the country is on the brink of losing its measles elimination status.
“Take the vaccine, please. We have a solution for our problem,” Oz said on CNN’s State of Union on Sunday. “Not all illnesses are equally dangerous, and not all people are equally susceptible to those illnesses. But measles is one you should get your vaccine [for],” Oz said.
Last I checked, he was not a doctor and could only use this title as his tv show persona.
Anways, not like I would ever cobsider him a fucking doctor lol
Nah that’s Dr. Phil.
Dr. Oz is a medical doctor and actually has contributed to medical science in a significant way, too. He’s done at least one successful heart transplant that I know about and helped make the LVAD.
Comparing him to Dr. Phil, though, all we really learn is that real and fake doctors can peddle bullshit and misinformation on TV.
That’s what really makes him such a fucking cunt right now, he absolutely knows he’s full of shit but does it anyway.
Right now? Do people not remember this fucker had a very successful TV show thanks to Oprah where he peddled snake oil for years?
You don’t need to read into my “right now” part of the sentence that much, I’m just awkward and add too much filler to my sentences. It’s not worth derailing over. We all remember that as well.
He side hustled berries, herbs and colored feathers. Alternative medicine = not medicine.
Nah. Mehmet Oz played a trick of MDs at university centers of getting his name on scientific studies or which he did fuck all. Because of this, journals now require statement of exact contribution because too many papers were published with >50 MDs who all scurry like roaches when the work is found fraudulent.
You got a source for that, by chance?
ICMJE | Recommendations | Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors https://share.google/Hsmr4prehPkQPZqfj
I’m sorry, I more meant anything supporting he did that, specifically.
I’m finding articles about how X thing he did isn’t fully legitimate because it doesn’t have the research, he peddled it anyway, or how X thing he claimed was completely baseless, but nothing indicating he ever stole authorship or paid off some group to falsely be listed as an author.
I thought that was Doctor Phil…the psych guy
He has a doctorate just not in psychology
No his doctorate IS in clinical psychology, he just hasn’t had a license to practice since 2006 and is not an MD