PHILADELPHIA — Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, is facing accusations over his treatment of animals following a report that dozens of his experiments at Columbia University resulted in the deaths of hundreds of dogs.
The issue went viral after Jezebel published a report Monday about Oz’s time at the Columbia University Institute of Comparative Medicine labs, where he served as a “principal investigator” for a number of years. Between 1989 and 2010, he published the results of 75 experiments that involved 1,027 animals.
Of those experiments, at least 34 killed about 329 dogs, two killed 31 pigs, and 38 killed 661 rabbits and other rodents, Jezebel reported.
