Seth MacFarlane calls out Oprah Winfrey for her association with Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz in wake of their coronavirus disinformation

The Daily Beast

In a Vice TV interview, MacFarlane expanded on a recent tweet calling Oprah out for giving Phil McGraw and Mehmet Oz a platform as executive producer of their TV shows. While reiterating that he believes Oprah has mostly “used her platform for good," MacFarlane added: “The exception to that is the elevation of these purveyors of pseudoscience. People like Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, all the way back to Jenny McCarthy and the anti-vax movement. And it’s a strange dichotomy that I think a lot of people, particularly right now, are having trouble reconciling. You know this person who has done all of this positive work for the world and yet somehow has gotten caught up in this web of junk science on many occasions. So, it’s a tough thing to balance.”