article_snippet.sent: Four who signed the letter, including leader author Henry Miller, have at some point been associated with the American Council on Science and Health.
article_snippet.sent: the American Council on Science and Health are rent-a-scientists,' said Gary Ruskin, cofounder and the executive director of US Right to Know, of Oz's critics.
article_snippet.sent: The Harvard-educated doctor joined the faculty at Columbia in 1993.
article_snippet.sent: I think I know the motivation at Columbia. 'the motivation at Columbia're star-struck, and like having on the motivation at Columbia faculty the best-known doctor in the country. '
article_snippet.sent: The nine other doctors from across the country included Dr Joel Tepper, a cancer researcher from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and Dr Gilbert Ross of the American Council on Science and Health in New York City.
article_snippet.sent: The nine other doctors from across the country sent the letter to Lee Goldman, the dean of Columbia's Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine.
article_snippet.sent: The New York Ivy League school responded Thursday, issuing a statement to The Associated Press saying only that The New York Ivy League schoolis committed to the principle of academic freedom and to upholding faculty members' freedom of expression for statements they make in public discussion.'
article_snippet.sent: As vice chairman of Columbia's surgery department, Dr Oz still occasionally teaches, said Douglas Levy, spokesman for the Columbia University Medical Center.