COM 301 Buzzsumo Assignment
In an exclusive interview with KDKA-TV, Gisele Fetterman double-downed on the charge.
We all know the wonderful joy of election time. Candidates sling the most outrageous stories out there and we eat them up. Are all those stories factual though? My most recent adventure in fact-checking brought me to a story about Dr. Oz who is in a heated race against John Fetterman for US senate. The article accuses Dr. Oz of killing puppies and other animals for medical research.
Columbia's internal investigation found that Oz's research team inflicted extensive suffering on canine test subjects in violation of the An
My search began on Buzzsumo.com using the words, "Oz puppies research". Many articles popped up accusing the famed surgeon and TV show host of his involvement in the slaughter of puppies as well as other animals. It seems this isn't really a new story, as the scandal was first exposed in 2004. Columbia University, where the research was conducted, was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine for violating the Animal Welfare Act. Later that year, they defended Dr. Oz as a top-notch researcher and doctor.
Questions over treatment of animals in research that Oz oversaw at Columbia date back to the early 2000s. But there's no evidence that the S
Allegations have circulated implicating Oz in the cruel treatment of animals at Columbia University. PEOPLE talked to a former Columbia empl
I continued my fact-checking journey by searching popular websites including factcheck.org and politifact.org, neither of these sites had any information on the Dr. Oz controversy. I took my search to Google.com and found articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer and a "fact check" article posted on people.com. Both articles concur, that while Dr. Oz was a principal investigator in the research studies, he wasn't directly involved in the abuse or murder of the animals. The article also mentions that Dr. Oz wasn't even mentioned in the case filed against Columbia University in 2004.
So is Dr. Oz a puppy killer as the Fetterman campaign would like you to believe? No, he isn't, but he did have some involvement and perhaps should've been in closer contact during the research studies that were conducted so that the animals hadn't been abused and treated inhumanely. Yet again I've learned how important it is to fact-check before believing any viral stories that I read on the internet.
