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In reply to the discussion: Sanjay Gupta is lying. He wasn't misinformed. He toed the line for the Surgeon General's job [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)85. Famously ran away from the embarrassing controversy, you mean?
Liberals were kind of kicking his ass over all that Michael Moore smearing and Vioxx defending and so forth, weren't they?
1) First consider Gupta's extensive coverage of autism, in which Gupta gave inappropriate credibility to those who believe that vaccines cause autism, thereby supporting controversy around the issue.
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3) Although an ardent supporter of new tests and treatments, especially pharmaceuticals, Gupta downplays safety risks. Many have criticized him for his reporting on Vioxx, a pain medication used for arthritis that was voluntarily withdrawn from the market in 2004 because it causes heart attacks. Although the drug's cardiac risk was well-known prior to its removal from the market, Gupta minimized these concerns by citing the lowest possible estimate for the increase in risk of heart attacks, 39 percent, rather than the middle (and most appropriate) estimate of 425 percent.
Moreover, he parroted Merck's response that the number of people with heart attacks was small and that further studies were needed. No doubt further studies were needed to allow the drug to remain on the market for five years while bringing in over $2 billion annually in sales for Merck and causing tens of thousands of excess heart attacks, according to an estimate from the FDA.
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5) Lastly, one cannot forget his hack job on Michael Moore's movie Sicko, which exposed some of the root causes of our national health care crisis and pointed toward a national single-payer health system as the solution. In a highly publicized on-air debate with Moore, Gupta made many erroneous statements about facts and figures, essentially calling Moore a liar, and then failed to correct himself or apologize after being revealed as wrong.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-floyd-md/cnns-gupta-not-what-the-d_b_163330.html
Check out the link for the rest of the piece. Pretty blistering. No wonder Gupta lit out for the hills.
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Sanjay Gupta is lying. He wasn't misinformed. He toed the line for the Surgeon General's job [View all]
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
OP
He is definitely late to the party, but I guess late is better than never. He is ahead of the
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#2
He is an important public face of establishment medicine. I'm glad he came around.
Comrade Grumpy
Aug 2013
#3
I'm sure someone paid him to change his mind. He's as greedy as all the others making their
winterpark
Aug 2013
#128
You are the one characterizing a simple refutation of false assertions as "a fight."
MADem
Aug 2013
#105
You're the one who hasn't provided any "factual support"--just your uninformed opinion.
MADem
Aug 2013
#117
You have a nice day--I'm tired of reading the same inventions from you, over and over.
MADem
Aug 2013
#119
Take care. FYI, here's the same thing you call "inventions" from the LA Times.
DirkGently
Aug 2013
#120
He sees the train leaving the station and he's gonna jump on it and pretend he's driving. n/t
PoliticAverse
Aug 2013
#6
there are 20 states where medical marijuana is legal and more pending.
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#14
Agree 100%. He was willfully ignorant because he was looking for a career in guvmint.
marble falls
Aug 2013
#16
I thought he turned down the job of Surgeon General when it was offered to him.
calimary
Aug 2013
#19
The job was HIS if he wanted it. He didn't want it. His wife was getting ready to have their 3rd
MADem
Aug 2013
#53
This is just a question. I wasn't paying any attention to Gupta's nomination....
Little Star
Aug 2013
#101
No shit. We have the benefit (?) of being inundated by mind readers who can analyse
lumpy
Aug 2013
#136
"NOBODY THINKS THAT. If you were born in the late 60s..." True dat. But I am glad
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#20
not the first Gupta forced to re-invent his position: Michael Moore's Sicko
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#47
I am happy to support his changed attitude about pot. We need to be celebrate
totodeinhere
Aug 2013
#30
the fact that he's come around proves that his support is no longer needed. or relevant.
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#43
Gupta lost all credibility when he joined the Private Health Ins. smear campaign against
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#35
Love the attempt in the thread to suggest it was the "pay cut" that made him run.
DirkGently
Aug 2013
#45
If it follows recent trends on DU, some one is pissed he stopped towing the line.
napoleon_in_rags
Aug 2013
#50
Okay, so he's popular. Why are you critiquing him right after he comes out in support of medical MJ?
napoleon_in_rags
Aug 2013
#63
Because for many DU'ers it's about somehow proving you are more liberal/intelligent/cynical
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#68
Gupta's Haiti trip highlighted the danger of self-promotion in reporting this tragedy.
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#65
actually, what's tacky is talking money from pharma to sell their products and
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#57
what's embarrassing is that you can't tell the difference between him wanting it and being unfit
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#55
The answer to your question is in Post sixty seven, which, plainly you did not read.
MADem
Aug 2013
#72
Obama didn't dump the guy, either. Not sure why you have this need to tell stories.
MADem
Aug 2013
#87
Where is your proof that Obama withdrew the nomination ? And why do you believe the poster
lumpy
Aug 2013
#140
That is just flat-out untrue. You don't have a right to your own made-up "factoids."
MADem
Aug 2013
#70
The one who is "angry" is you. I just can't understand why you have a need to invent history, all
MADem
Aug 2013
#113
yep, he's a big fat liar. & if he's saying now pot is ok, it's only because the political winds are
HiPointDem
Aug 2013
#60
Wrong. Gupta was offered the Surgeon General job and famously turned it down.
Zen Democrat
Aug 2013
#80
this makes no sense at all, i remember when news came out about him being in consideration for the
JI7
Aug 2013
#90
No matter how many bullshit blog posts you pull up- you are still wrong and facts prove you wrong.
KittyWampus
Aug 2013
#110
Even if we accept what you say as true, and I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt...
stevenleser
Aug 2013
#123
Thought that having a mind of his own would impede that career move. Now he just gives props
lunasun
Aug 2013
#127
One of the things brought up in the special got me thinking. If our reward center in our brain
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#142