The celebrity doctor who rose to fame after being featured on Oprah’s massively popular talkshow has said he would like to run for office as far back as 2007. But since then, Oz helmed his own talk show, where he regularly peddled pseudo-science to millions of daytime viewers with little incredulity of its efficacy. In his Why I’m Running essay, Oz writes, “Doctors are trained to tell it like it is because you deserve to hear our best advice and make your own decisions. It’s why I have fought the establishment my whole career.”

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I guess that’s why he’s pushing hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 remedy in April?

According to the AP, it’s unclear why Oz is even running in PA: “Still, Oz may have to explain why he isn’t running for office in New Jersey, where he has lived for the past two decades before he began voting in Pennsylvania’s elections this year by absentee ballot, registered to his in-laws’ address in suburban Philadelphia.”

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I suspect he will not win, but stranger things have happened in this country.