Updated: TV's Harvard Medical School Graduate Dr. Oz Under Attack By Medical Profession; His Response

Posted April 17, 2015 7:27 PM ET; Last updated April 18, 2015 7:58 PM ET

Embattled TV and Columbia University Physician

[From article]

‘I bring the public information that will help them on their path to be their best selves,’ Oz said in a statement released through a representative of The Dr. Oz Show, according to USA Today.
He continued: ‘We provide multiple points of view, including mine, which is offered without conflict of interest. That doesn't sit well with certain agendas which distort the facts.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3044457/Dr-Oz-hits-doctors-campaigning-booted-Columbia-University-faculty-lack-integrity-quack-treatments.html

Dr Oz hits back at doctors campaigning to get him booted from Columbia University faculty because of his 'lack of integrity' and 'quack treatments'
Dr Mehmet Oz is vice chairman at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and is a professor of surgery
He said in a statement that his show provides 'multiple points of view', including his, 'which is offered without conflict of interest'
Comes after ten top doctors sent letter to school urging for Oz's dismissal
Said there's no scientific proof his 'miracle' weight-loss supplements work
Columbia said it 'is committed to the principle of academic freedom'
University has not removed TV celebrity doctor from his faculty position
By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN and EVAN BLEIER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:35 EST, 17 April 2015 | UPDATED: 08:39 EST, 18 April 2015




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From left to right, Dr Phil McGraw, financial advisor Suze Orman, host Oprah Winfrey, Dr Mehmet Oz and interior designer Nate Berkus participate in The Oprah Winfrey Show live from Radio City Music Hall in 2010.

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The group of nationally known doctors, in a lacerating letter to his boss, called for the TV doctor’s dismissal from the prestigious post of vice chairman of Columbia University’s department of surgery.
“He’s a quack and a fake and a charlatan,” said Dr. Henry Miller of Stanford, the first person to sign the poison-pen letter.
[. . .]
“I think I know the motivation at Columbia,” he continued. “They’re star-struck, and like having on their faculty the best-known doctor in the country. But the fact is that his advice endangers patients, and this doesn’t seem to faze them. Whether they’re hoping Oprah will come and endow a center for homeopathic medicine, I don't know.”
The one-page letter was also signed by Dr. Gilbert Ross, executive director of the American Council on Science and Health.
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The pull-no-punches attack on the surgeon was sent to Dr. Lee Goldman, dean of faculties for Health Sciences and Medicine at the Ivy League school.
“Dr. Oz is guilty of either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgments about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both,” the letter concluded.
“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.”
Although his television duties forced Oz to cut back on his hours, he remains a presence at Columbia as a researcher, teacher and physician.
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It’s not the first time the 54-year-old Oz has come under fire for his on-air persona. At a Washington appearance in June 2014, a Senate panel blasted Ozfor his endorsement of “miracle” weight loss products that didn’t work.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/doctors-dr-oz-removed-columbia-faculty-article-1.2187815

'A fake and a charlatan': Doctors call for Dr. Oz to be dismissed from Columbia surgery faculty over alleged quack science
BY LARRY MCSHANE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Thursday, April 16, 2015, 2:29 PM Updated: Friday, April 17, 2015, 4:39 PM

University Presidents Share Qualities of Politicians

Roger Morris, in his book, Partners in Power, about the Clintons, suggests that the preferred leader is  weak with relaxed rectitude. It applies to the public, private and academic communities. 

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University presidents love to form study committees -- they embrace them almost with the same glee exhibited by Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland rushing into the barn to form a band: "Let's form a (band) committee". Bureaucracy at its best. But nowhere is there a word about addressing the pertinent issue here: false rape accusations. (Nor, to sharpen the point, a syllable about protecting the actual victims -- the falsely accused. That isn't part of the PC agenda.)

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/whats_wrong_with_our_university_presidents.html

December 9, 2014
What's Wrong With Our University Presidents?
By R.B. Parrish

More Women Accuse Bill Cosby of Rape

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A local woman is the latest of more than a dozen women to accuse comedian Bill Cosby of being a sexual predator.
Renita Chaney Hill, 47, tells KDKA reporter Ralph Iannotti she was a 15-year-old model and aspiring actress when she first met Cosby back in the 1980s.
[. . .]
Her appearance in Cosby’s videos was the start of a four-year, on-again, off-again relationship with the actor.
“He would fly me to a number of cities,” including New York and Atlanta she remembers. “He would be busy during the day, then I’d come to his hotel room at night,” she said.
Hill says when she was alone with Cosby the scenario was always the same. Cosby would insist she have a drink even though she was underage. She says she now believes she was drugged.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/11/20/local-woman-latest-to-come-forward-accusing-bill-cosby-of-being-sexual-predator/

Local Woman Latest To Come Forward Accusing Bill Cosby Of Being Sexual Predator
Renita Chaney Hill: "The Bottom Line For Me Is That No One Has The Right To Violate Someone Else, No Matter Who They Are"
November 20, 2014 11:15 PM
Ralph Iannotti

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[From article]
Before Cosby was accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a passel of women — I think the number is up to at least 17, but I stink at math — Jackson cried out that this man was her father. And Cosby treated the young lady like roadkill.
Jackson and [Cosby] had a reunion of sorts in 1997. In a depressing trial in New York City, Jackson, then 22, faced Cosby, who’d just turned 60, in Manhattan federal court. The married father of five acknowledged kids had admitted in an interview that he’d enjoyed a “rendezvous’’ with Jackson’s mother. And Cosby, who all but said that he was, at best, a lousy husband and, at worst, a rank hypocrite, testified that he paid the mother and daughter $100,000 over the years to keep his image-crushing extramarital affair a secret.

http://nypost.com/2014/11/20/bill-cosby-should-have-gone-down-as-a-loser/

Cosby should have lost in the 1st case
By Andrea Peyser
New York Post
November 20, 2014 | 11:04pm

Presidential Cycles

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Americans often elect presidents who conspicuously lack the perceived defect of the preceding president (e.g., Jack Kennedy's youth contrasting with Dwight Eisenhower's age, Ronald Reagan's strength correcting for Jimmy Carter's weakness). Christie, who exudes executive authority, is the antithesis of today's bewildered incumbent floundering from the disappearing red line regarding Syria, to the HealthCare.gov debacle, to the Veterans Affairs scandals, to the no-one-tells-me-anything surprise about the Islamic State, to the Secret Service that cannot lock the White House's front door.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will100914.php3

Why Christie matters
By George Will
Published Oct. 9, 2014

Some Successful People Are Psychopaths

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“I wanted to debunk the myth that all psychopaths are bad,” says Dutton, who has explored this subject before. “I’d done research with the special forces, with surgeons, with top hedge fund managers and barristers. Almost all of them had psychopathic traits, but they’d harnessed them in ways to make them better at what they do.”
[. . .]
“Being a psychopath isn’t black and white; it’s a spectrum, like height and weight.”
[. . .]
The lack of fear which characterises psychopaths could also help people in the work place, says Dutton, who asks of the book’s readers: “What would I do in this situation if I wasn’t afraid?”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10788449/Why-psychopaths-are-more-successful.html

Why psychopaths are more successful
Andy McNab and Oxford psychology professor Kevin Dutton reveal how acting like psychopaths could help us in work, life and love
By Theo Merz
8:17AM BST 07 May 2014

Meta Data Reveals Personality Types

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A group of researchers from the MIT Media Lab found that your metadata — including, but not limited to, the way in which you use your phone, how you make calls, to whom, for how long, etc. — can serve as an indicator of your personality.
Here’s how they figured it out. The researchers, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Jordi Quoidbach, Florent Robic and Sandy Pentland, had 100 students fill out surveys to determine their personality along five distinct personality types:



Neurotic: Defined roughly as a higher than normal tendency to experience unpleasant emotions
Open: Defined as broadly curious and creative
Extroverted: As in, looks toward others for stimulation
Agreeable: As in warm, compassionate, and cooperative
Conscientiousness: Self-disciplined organized and eager for success

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/03/how-nsa-can-use-metadata-predict-your-personality/81538/?oref=d-topstory

How the NSA Can Use Metadata to Predict Your Personality
Patrick Tucker March 28, 2014

Preferred Character Traits For Lasting Marriage

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Certain behaviors — like signs of defensiveness or resentment — were noted. With these details, trained researchers were able to detect whether or not the couple would divorce in 10 years with 90 percent accuracy. In another similar study done at Harvard, even untrained undergraduates were able to guess the couples’ futures based on a 15 minute interaction with an 81 percent accuracy.
While researchers can see clearly, so many of us are blinded by love.
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Knowing all this — and most of us should — doesn’t stop the fact that finding a mate is largely an “irrational” process. Statistics and love are like oil and water, but Tashiro hopes to make the mixture a bit more palatable, especially for those looking for long-term love.
[. . .]
“If you choose someone with traits that drive you crazy or make you sad while you’re dating, then those traits will make you crazy or sad for decades to come,” he writes. “So you want to choose well, because what you see is what you get.”

http://nypost.com/2014/02/02/for-real-long-lasting-love-the-no-1-trait-to-seek-is-niceness-expert/

The science of happily ever after
By Susannah Cahalan
February 2, 2014 | 12:37am

New York Post

Soul Mate? Unlikely. More Like a Growing Mate

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Life circumstances can sometimes also compel significant changes in personal philosophies and approaches to life. Significant traumas can completely uproot a previously established sense of trust in others and will often change someone’s personality greatly. More than half of the women who responded to my survey (The Lifestyle Poll) (a total of 633 women) reported that they’ve experienced an event that has made them a “much less trusting person than they used to be.”

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-joint-adventures-well-educated-couples/201207/the-fallacy-the-soul-mate-part-i

The Joint (Ad)Ventures of Well-Educated Couples
What it really takes to create and sustain an exceptional and lasting marriage.
by Shauna Springer, Ph.D
The Fallacy of the Soul Mate (Part I)
Well-educated people do not usually believe in “soul mates.”
Published on July 7, 2012

Personality Set in Youth

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“I would definitely say that how teachers and how people treat you in life will affect how you see yourself and how you’re going to behave,” Nave said.
[. . .]
“Undeniably, we need to pay attention to the power of personality,” he said. “It really does predict behavior later in life across contexts.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/can_you_change_your_personality_3wqMIzOZmjfmNqbSZtyZpK

Can you change your personality

By MAYRAV SAAR

Last Updated: 5:10 AM, August 15, 2010

Posted: 1:24 AM, August 15, 2010

Personality Set by First Grade

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100806/sc_livescience/personalitysetforlifeby1stgradestudysuggests

Personality Set for Life By 1st Grade, Study Suggests

LiveScience Staff

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