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Sherri Tenpenny is no longer a licensed physician after airing fringe comments and ducking investigators.

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[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 152 points 1 year ago

good, because if that bullshit were true, I wouldn’t be dropping spoons all the time.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pedro@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

The article started with "Texas", so I did not go further. Felt like enough was said

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (10 children)

How did she become a Doctor? Is the one of those times where just pretended one day, got away with it and just carried on?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I actually know one family doctor who is really, really smart. He took care of my family, and he has always been on point with his advice.

Three years ~~from now~~ (edit:) ago, he started spewing bullshit about vaccines. It was really disappointing.

My point is, some people (including thia doctor) are very susceptible to social media brainwashing. I'm not justifying them, but I can see how they became doctors long, long, long ago when we were not constantly online.

[–] Misconduct@startrek.website 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If there's one thing working in insurance taught me it's that you just never know. You can be talking to the smartest person in the world with five degrees etc and they just got into an accident watching Bluey while driving lol. People are gonna people and intelligence does NOT equal common sense/rational thought.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. I work with a bunch of literal rocket scientists - amazingly smart people. In discussing work stuff, every one of them will insist on data to make decisions. But a few of them will start taking about politics and go off on some diatribe about vaccines, climate change, deep state, or whatever - things completely unsupported by facts or data. I just don't understand how people can compartmentalize their whole way of thinking like that.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And then there's religion... it always seemed similarly odd to me that otherwise rational people can believe in the adult version of Santa. These are often the same people.

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[–] Falmarri@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

and they just got into an accident watching Bluey while driving lol

c/suspiciouslyspecific

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, know a teacher. Smart person.

Had the COVID shot, had side effects (flu symptoms), "researched" online. Next time we saw her, she had opinions on Hunter Biden and thinks Russia is justified in invading Ukraine. Don't really want to talk with them any more. You end up tiptoeing around things so as not to activate the Fox news programming.

She's not even American. This shit is more infectious than any virus. You don't even have to leave home to catch it.

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Three years from now would mean three years into the future.

Three years ago would be three years into the past.

And yes it’s sad how even intelligent people fall down very deep rabbit holes.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've noticed a few people on here use "x years from now" incorrectly to refer to the past. I wonder if it's an ESL thing and maybe their native language uses that construct to refer to the future.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You're discounting the possibility that the person is a time traveler.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I've read that intelligent people can be more susceptible to rabbit holes because they trust themselves to see through the bullshit. They don't realise the bullshit is carefully crafted to slip past their filters.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

"I know I spent a decade or more of my life in post-grad, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, attended hundreds of hours of lectures, but this blog with a .blogspot.com domain just convinced me that vaccines can ionize your body"

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woo boy, a couple years ago I got a vasectomy. I didn't know the doctor, I'm not at an age that one typically sees a urologist. This otherwise seemingly intelligent and congenial medical professional starts making small talk about how much bullshit the COVID vaccine is WITH MY NUTS IN HIS HANDS. I just nodded and grunted noncommittally until I could rush out of that office. Bright side is his work has held up at least!

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Being smart in one subject doesn't mean anything else. I have meet some interesting characters in engineering. One I worked with only drank fluoride removed water and every day wolfed down a king size candy bar. Which according to him was okay since it is sugar and sugar is natural. His teeth were as you expect. Also had like 8 patents.

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[–] tal@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It sounds like she may be a scam artist rather than an idiot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Tenpenny

she is the author of four books opposing vaccination

Tenpenny promotes anti-vaccination videos sold by Ty and Charlene Bollinger and receives a commission whenever her referrals result in a sale, a practice known as affiliate marketing.

If you look at her website, the front page is mostly selling her books and various snake oil treatments, like "heavy metal detox" substances. looks further And what appears to be faith healing stuff.

Getting a medical degree doesn't mean that you can't be a scam artist.

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[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Seriously! How does someone with a medical degree think magnetism manifests in the human body?

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do they call the person who graduated at the bottom of their class in med school?

"Doctor."

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

She did her undergrad at PragerU and her residency at Trump University Collij uh Medisin.

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[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At first, I thought that revoking her license on procedural grounds, rather than addressing the nonsense she was spewing, was a cowardly decision. After some thought, I realized that the board probably did the right thing. They are using this opportunity to reinforce the board’s authority, which is essential. They’re also giving themselves a second chance to revoke her license on professional grounds, in case she fights the procedural decision in court and somehow wins.

Also, I wonder how the Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom feel about a woman’s right to choose? I can only guess, but this “nonpartisan” group provides a handy election guide which endorses every Republican and absolutely no Democrats. That might be a clue. I bet they don’t even see the hypocrisy of using the words “Medical Freedom “, because they don’t acknowledge that abortion is health care.

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[–] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 34 points 1 year ago

Big Magnet once again tries to silence the truth!1!

[–] Zardoz@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wanna be magnetized! I think my vaccines were defective.

[–] jelyfride@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago

Seriously- how is this not a selling point?

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[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To be fair an osteopathic doctor is barely even a doctor to begin with... more like a glorified masseuse.

[–] somethingp@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

My background: I'm a medical student (MD school), in a combined MD/PhD program. I've completed my PhD and am in the last year of the MD.

I think you might be confusing DO's with chiropractors. Most DO's go through the same licensing exams and residencies as MDs. Some of the other comments are true that MD schools can be more difficult to get in to, but this has to do with their performance in undergraduate education. By the end of their respective programs, MDs and DOs are usually competing for the same residency programs using the same board exams.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I was told by multiple MD holders that DOs and MDs were basically the same at this point. Were they being polite?

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There are plenty of outstanding DOs and many poor MDs. But it is a fact that you need better qualifications to get into MD school.

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[–] TheMusicalFruit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This is not true.

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[–] MSids@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

'Sherri Tenpenny, an osteopathic doctor who says she’s been researching for 21 years vaccine adverse events, testified before a legislative committee this week that people can stick keys, spoons and forks to their foreheads after getting the coronavirus vaccine possibly because they've been magnetized.'

Yeah keys are brass or nickel and brass. Both are non-ferrous.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't believe this comment! He's been compromised by big magnet!

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[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Damn they won't make me magnetic? That would be useful, I could avoid dropping screws and bits every time I do a project.

[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

I was hoping to be able to take down the X-Men soon, but this bitch lied to me!

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Good.

The medical community needs to come down harder on these people, if you ask me. It's not a free speech matter when junk science is being proliferated and causing people's deaths, and there should be professional and legal consequences for people who do this.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago
[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

How do these crackpots become doctors? What the ever-loving fuck!

[–] Poot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I was hoping that getting the vaccine would let me shoot Jewish Space Lasers out of my eyes, but all the vaccine did for me was make me ruin my credit cards every time I try to swipe them! 😕

[–] bauhaus@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

at least I still get free 5G! Thanks Obama!

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got da vaccine and my internet is still trash. Fake news.

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