Originally published at: Dr. Oz's research killed over 300 dogs, many other animals | Boing Boing
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Hmm, how many humans did he kill. Gotta be at least a few…
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It’s not unusual for a scientist involved in medical research to be involved with experiments that killed hundreds or thousands of animals. All of us have benefited from experiments that did not benefit the animals killed in those experiments. That said, there’s no excuse for not meeting established humane standards.
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Hey, you can’t get rich selling snake oil if you aren’t willing to murder a bunch of snakes.
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Well, I’ve not seen any evidence that he killed anyone… Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence, or something.
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Agreed. What is needed here is a detailed list of the charges. Without all the information it’s hard to know what to think. Worse, the article lists possible offenses (the worst), says there was a $2000 fine (chump change), and leads one to believe the dots are connected and end at Oz. I’m no fan of the guy but, give me a break, details are important.
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Dolphins never° kill people.
°leave evidence that sometimes they
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“Dr. Oz has killed puppies. If elected he will kill more puppies!”
-John Fetterman ad I’d like to see
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It seems to me that every neighborhood had that ONE kid who was notorious for impromptu animal vivisection and breaking and entering. Most of those little psychopaths end up in a life of crime and prison sentences, but some become doctors and politicians.
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TBF - people would care a lot less about snakes… just saying.
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I would respect him more if he were killing snakes in studies before just selling snake oil. I think these charges stem from the more legitimate portion of his career.
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If the “legitimate” portion of his career involved regular violations of the Animal Welfare Act then what does that say about where he is today?
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So he went from animal experimentation to grifting gullible humans.
That’s about the same as saying “Oh, I don’t pay junkies to crash stolen cars into buildings for the insurance money anymore. Arson is so much easier!”
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There’s a bit of irony here as well, as Republicans tried to smear Anthony Fauci with animal cruelty charges in the past. That all amounted to a bit of a nothingburger, but the tl;dr is that Fauci was head of the agency that approved funding for research that ultimately resulted in the death of beagles, including work on dogs that was conducted in Tunisia (but not the work his accusers alleged) and work where dogs’ vocal cords were removed for OHSA reasons. However, he didn’t personally approve these grants - they were part of a batch of “thousands”.
The lesson of course is that you can get a lot of political mileage out of accusing someone of animal cruelty. You are correct that the details really do matter - Fauci seems to be in the clear, whereas Oz crossed some sort of line since he was ultimately fined, though how severe/intentional the violation was is not clear. $2000 doesn’t seem like much, but maybe the violation was severe, and the legislation just has really weak penalties.
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Truly a Mengele for our times.
You’re being far to kind to call this charlatan a scientist.
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Toto does not want to meet OZ no more.
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He left the field decades ago, but earlier in his career it was a small part of his day job.
Eta: charlatan should certainly be the lede on his CV.
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