[Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says] 
 
 "Dr. Oz has repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine, as well as baseless and relentless opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops," the letter states. "Worst of all, he has manifested an egregious lack of integrity by promoting quack treatments and cures in the interest of personal financial gain." Two additional New York doctors also wanted to sign after the letter was sent, Miller said: 
 
 Lee Goldman, M.D. Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine 
 
 Columbia University Dear Dr. Goldman: I am writing to you on behalf of myself and the undersigned colleagues below, all of whom are distinguished physicians. We are surprised and dismayed that Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons would permit Dr. Mehmet Oz to occupy a faculty appointment, let alone a senior administrative position in the Department of Surgery. As described here and here, as well as in other publications, Dr. Oz has repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine, as well as baseless and relentless opposition to the genetic engineering of food crops. Thus, Dr. Oz is guilty of either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgments [sic] about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both. Whatever the nature of his pathology, members of the public are being misled and endangered, which makes Dr. Oz's presence on the faculty of a prestigious medical institution unacceptable. Sincerely yours, Henry I. Miller, M.D. Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy 
 
 & Public Policy 
 
 Hoover Institution 
 
 Stanford University 
 
 Stanford, CA Scott W. Atlas, M.D. David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow 
 
 Hoover Institution 
 
 Stanford University 
 
 Stanford, CA Jack Fisher, M.D. Professor of Surgery (emeritus) 
 
 University of California, San Diego 
 
 La Jolla, CA Shelley Fleet, M.D. Anesthesiologist 
 
 Longwood, FL Gordon N. Gill, M.D. Dean (emeritus) of Translational Medicine 
 
 University of California, San Diego 
 
 La Jolla, CA Michael H. Mellon, M.D. Pediatric Allergist 
 
 San Diego, CA GIlbert Ross, M.D. President (Acting) and Executive Director 
 
 American Council on Science and Health 
 
 New York, NY Samuel Schneider, M.D. Psychiatrist 
 
 Princeton, NJ Glenn Swogger Jr. M.D. Director of the Will Menninger Center for Applied Behavioral Sciences (retired) 
 
 The Menninger Foundation 
 
 Topeka, KS Joel E. Tepper, M.D. Hector MacLean Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research 
 
 Dept of Radiation Oncology 
 
 University of North Carolina School of Medicine 
 
 Chapel Hill, NC 
 
 [This post, originally published on April 16, has been updated.]
– Celebrity TV doctor and magic bean salesman Dr. Mehmet Oz also has a prestigious post at Columbia University, which some esteemed colleagues in the medical world find absurd. In a letter to the dean of the Columbia University medical school, where Oz is vice chairman of the surgery department, 10 doctors call his presence on the faculty "unacceptable," citing his "disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine," and accusing him of displaying an "egregious lack of integrity by promoting quack treatments and cures" for financial gain, Skepchick reports. Oz, the doctors write, is guilty of "either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgements about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both." Dr. Henry Miller of Stanford, the first doctor to sign the letter, tells the New York Daily News that Oz is "a quack and a fake and a charlatan." He says Columbia only has him on the faculty because "they're star-struck"—and may be "hoping Oprah will come and endow a center for homeopathic medicine." In a statement, a Columbia spokesman says, "Columbia is committed to the principle of academic freedom and to upholding faculty members' freedom of expression for statements they make in public discussion," reports the Washington Post. A recent study found that about half of what Oz says on TV is wrong, which Matt Novak at Gizmodo says proves that calling the doctor "full of s---" isn't just opinion—"it's science!" (More "down with Oz" news here, here, and here.)