Is Dr. Oz Fit To Join the U.S. Senate?

Ron Bailey has long been a science writer who is more knowledgeable than most.

I didn't read any articles in that "elite thinkers" list, they might just be knee jerk responses by triggered elites. More likely by Oz, Trump, and hydroxychloroquine.

Bailey's article questions Dr Oz's support for alternative medicine and energy healing. Discussion of Oz's views on COVID-19 and government.

https://reason.com/2021/12/02/is-dr-oz-fit-to-join-the-u-s-senate/

Oz's "Why I'm Running" statement leans heavily on the disarray and discord provoked by COVID-19. "The urgency of my decision crystalized during the pandemic," it says. "At least half a million American people have died from the virus, a devastating toll for families and communities. What also hurts is that many of those deaths were preventable." He adds, "In this emergency, we needed capable leaders ready to act—and we didn't get that. The entire situation angered me."

Oz specifically inveighs against "elite thinkers who controlled the means of communication" and the "arrogant, close-minded people" who "closed our schools, shut down our businesses and took away our freedom." He adds: "America should have been the world leader on how to beat the pandemic. Instead, we were not."

A lot of "elite thinkers" in the media are responding by calling Oz a quack. "Just What the Quack Ordered: Dr. Oz Expected to Announce Pennsylvania Senate Run," proclaims Vanity Fair. "Quack TV Doctor Thinks He Deserves to Be a Senator, Because That's Where We Are Now," headlines Rolling Stone. "Dr. Oz Quacks the Code of Republican Party," quips The Bulwark. MSNBC piles on with "Dr. Oz is the TV quack candidate Republicans deserve."