He spent a good lot of the last decade sitting on hospital and university boards dedicated to Complimentary and Alternative medicine, effectively boot strapping quackery into legitimate medicine, Plus this this shit.
He has actively been doing harm through his medical credentials for a long time, and not just by selling supplements on the TV.
He’s not currently a practicing surgeon or active member of Columbia’s staff. And there’s been a number of a pushes from groups in the field to remove his credentials, and trying to pressure Columbia into dropping him entirely.
So the scare quotes are kinda warranted.
