What TV host has popularized the pseudoscience of Deepak Chopra and Dr. Oz?
Mehmet Oz Mehmet Oz Mehmet Cengiz Öz (; born June 11, 1960), known professionally as Dr. Oz, is a Turkish American television personality, cardiothoracic surgeon, Columbia University professor, pseudoscience promoter, and author. Oz came to general prominence with appearances on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" beginning in 2004, and later on "Larry King Live" and other TV programs. In 2009, "The Dr. Oz Show", a daily television program focusing on medical issues and personal health, was launched by Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures. He is a proponent of alternative medicine, and has been criticized by physicians, government officials, and publications, including "Popular
Deepak Chopra mechanical body" composed not of matter but of energy and information, he believes that "human aging is fluid and changeable; it can speed up, slow down, stop for a time, and even reverse itself," as determined by one's state of mind. He claims that his practices can also treat chronic disease. , Deepak Chopra lived in a "health-centric" condominium in Manhattan. The ideas Chopra promotes have been regularly criticized by medical and scientific professionals as pseudoscience. This criticism has been described as ranging "from dismissive [to] damning". For example, Robert Carroll states Chopra attempts to integrate Ayurveda with quantum mechanics