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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 2 years ago

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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 81 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] pedro@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 62 points 2 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?

[–] tal@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago (13 children)

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

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 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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[–] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 34 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] jelyfride@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago

Seriously- how is this not a selling point?

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[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 years 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 2 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.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (17 children)

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

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[–] TheMusicalFruit@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

This is not true.

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[–] MSids@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 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.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 23 points 2 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.

[–] Frog-Brawler@kbin.social 18 points 2 years 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 2 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.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago
[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Poot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 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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