Inside Higher Ed is bucking the hurricane that has built up against Dr. Mehmet Oz after four American Council on Science and Health-affiliated doctors wrote a letter to Columbia University asking for him to be reprimanded for promoting alternative treatments and selling bogus cures as miracle products.
John Wilson says that is academic freedom and must be defended at all costs. Dr. Oz is simply being shamed, Wilson says. Why have the American Medical Association or any state board if no doctor should be criticized for practicing Shamanism on television? He wears scrubs and dispenses advice, that limits freedom of speech.