Mod: From the article: "Columbia's internal investigation found that Oz's research team inflicted extensive suffering on canine test subjects in violation of the Animal Welfare Act."Dr. Oz’s Scientific Experiments Killed Over 300 Dogs, Entire Litter of Puppies (Jezebellink): In a scandal that will surely make Mitt Romney—who famously strapped his family dog atop the roof of his car for a road trip—look like a PETA activist, a review of 75 studies published by Mehmet Oz between 1989 and 2010 reveals the Republican Senate candidate’s research killed over 300 dogs and inflicted significant suffering on them and the other animals used in experiments.
Oz, the
New Jersey resident who’s currently running for
U.S. Senate from
Pennsylvania, was a “principal investigator” at the
Columbia University Institute of Comparative Medicine labs for years and assumed “full scientific, administrative, and fiscal responsibility for the conduct” of his studies.
Over the course of 75 studies published in academic journals reviewed by Jezebel, Oz’s team conducted experiments on at least 1,027 live animal subjects that included dogs, pigs, calves, rabbits, and small rodents. Thirty-four of these experiments resulted in the deaths of at least 329 dogs, while two of his experiments killed 31 pigs, and 38 experiments killed 661 rabbits and rodents.
In the early 2000s, testimony from a whistleblower and veterinarian named
Catherine Dell’Orto about
Oz’s research detailed extensive suffering inflicted on his team’s canine test subjects, including multiple violations of the
Animal Welfare Act, which sets minimum standards of care for dogs, cats, primates, rabbits, and other animals in the possession of animal dealers and laboratories. The law specifically requires researchers and breeders to use pain-relieving drugs or euthanasia on the animals, and not use paralytics without anesthesia, or experiment multiple times on the same animal.
Dell’Orto testified that a dog experimented on by Oz’s team experienced lethargy, vomiting, paralysis, and kidney failure, but wasn’t euthanized for a full two days. She alleged other truly horrifying examples of gratuitously cruel treatment of dogs, including at least one dog who was kept alive for a month for continued experimentation despite her unstable, painful condition, despite how data from her continued experimentation was deemed unusable.
According to
Dell’Orto, one
Oz-led study resulted in a litter of puppies being killed by intracardiac injection with syringes of expired drugs inserted in their hearts without any sedation. Upon being killed, the puppies were allegedly left in a garbage bag with living puppies who were their littermates.
Mehmet Oz's research tortured and killed over 1,000 animals including more than 300 dogs (
AlterNetlink):
Doctor Mehmet Oz, the
Republican candidate for the
United States Senate in
Pennsylvania, conducted research at
Columbia University in
New York City between 1989 and 2010 that resulted in the grisly deaths of over a thousand animals – including more than 300 dogs – according to dozens of studies that were reviewed by
Jezebel.
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