Bari Weiss new hire as contributor at CBS News is a well-known quack

 

Headline:  The Guardian, 1/29/2026 

Jason Wilson reports:

Among the new hires at CBS announced by Bari Weiss is a doctor who has claimed that he has reduced his biological age by 20 years with therapies including cold plunges; that cod liver oil can treat autism and that conditions like Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with the kind of nutritional supplements he also sells on his online store. 

Dr Mark Hyman, who has been called a “germ theory denialist” by the medical author Harriet Hall, and has been brought on as a contributor in Weiss’s revamping of CBS’s news division. He is perhaps the most prominent exponent of so-called “functional medicine” (FM), an alternative medicine that the oncological surgeon David Gorski has described as “pure quackery”. 

Like some other moves at CBS, his hiring is likely to win favor with the Donald Trump administration. [emphasis added]

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