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

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[–] 152 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 62 points 3 years 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?

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  • [+] 88 points 3 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 39 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 13 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years 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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  • [–] 13 points 3 years 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"

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 3 years 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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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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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    [–] 35 points 3 years 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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    [–] 34 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 30 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 44 points 3 years 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.

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    [–] 27 points 3 years 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.

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    [–] 23 points 3 years 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.

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    [–] 22 points 3 years 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.

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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years 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! 😕

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

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

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