Sherri Tenpenny is no longer a licensed physician after airing fringe comments and ducking investigators.
good, because if that bullshit were true, I wouldn’t be dropping spoons all the time.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Yup. My best friend growing up was absolutely brilliant, one of the smartest and most well-rounded people I’ve ever met. And yet, when she was new to driving, and her dad handed her the gas pump to fill up the tank, she started spraying it on the windshield. Somehow, despite surely seeing other people perform this task hundreds of times throughout her life, she got it into her head that the pump is where the “soapy water” comes from. You know, those little reserves of water with the squeegee/sponge combo to clean your windshield? That soapy water. She was convinced that the soapy water lived in the gas pump and started dousing her windshield with gas. The fact that it came out with small bubbles further confirmed to her that it was, indeed, soapy water. Her completely flabbergasted dad losing his mind screaming WHATTHEFUCKAREYOUDOING!!! is what finally clued her in that she might be acting in error. It’s like sometimes when you’re that smart maybe you just don’t have any spare brain cells to understand every day things.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Yes unfortunately intelligence does not seem to be a protective factor against media illiteracy. That is also not something that is focused on in medical education too much, and definitely wasn’t being emphasized by small schools in the 80s (which is when this Ohio person went to school).
All vaccines or just the new mRNA ones? I feel like it would be easy to mistrust them at first because of the rapidity they came to market (if iring previous mRNA research), and maybe the media played on that.
If it’s all vaccines that’s just absolutely retarded for a doctor to fall victim to. Who wants polio back? He should have had extensive training on the older vaccines.
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.
In a June 2021 report on the Disinformation Dozen, titled “Pandemic Profiteers,” the CCDH estimated that Tenpenny earned up to $353,925 from a single webinar titled “How Covid-19 Injections Can Make You Sick … Even Kill You.”
This income is on top of sales from Tenpenny’s pre-recorded training courses, her line of supplements, as well as her fees for appearing in multiple vaccine-injury cases. And each webinar produces more customers.
“My job is to teach the 400 of you in the class … so each one of you go out and teach 1,000,” she told her $623-a-head “Mastering Vaccine Info Boot Camp” in March, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sherri-tenpenny-how-anti-vaxxer-fuels-pandemic-makes-money-2021-8
Yeah, that too.
Honestly, one thing that I’ve found to be surprisingly consistent across a lot of the apparently-bonkers-on-the-surface conspiracy crowd is that someone is selling “alternative wellness” products at the bottom of it.
I remember discovering that Alex Jones was off selling a bunch of “alternative wellness” stuff too and saying “oooohhhh, okay, that makes more sense”.
I think that the business model looks something like this. You take some issue that someone doesn’t like. I don’t know, being told to wear a mask. You say “this is unnecessary”. Okay, fine, that’s something of a values call, weighting risks against benefits. Then you promote related stuff that they agree with. So, okay, say someone goes to church, and they pray for someone to get better, and that’s a normal part of the culture, right? But in the case of Sherri Tenpenny, it looks like she’s off encouraging people to perform prayers that include a lot of the other kinda wonky products she’s promoting. She’s trying to leverage the cultural norm of praying for someone to get better to associating the stuff she’s promoting with getting better.
So you put out stuff that people agree with to draw them in. Do a wide range of things targeting sometimes-totally-different groups. Some people don’t like 5G – that’s not new with 5G, as there have always been people worried about the health effects of cell phones and radios. Some people don’t trust vaccines. Some people don’t like being told what to do and don’t like being made to wear masks. Some people are pissed off with overseas competition for the field they work in, so opposition to global trade goes over well. Some people are concerned about the effects that industrial chemicals might be having on their bodies. Some people have the idea that there are some sort of ties between life or biological processes and magnets (though that tended to be more of a left-wing than a right-wing thing in the US in the past, but I suppose the same mechanisms work on people either way). I mean, run down the list, doesn’t need to have much to do with each other. You’re just trying to pick up people who don’t agree with the mainstream on one point or another, so that you look appealing to them on that point. You’re saying something that the mainstream isn’t that they like.
You keep constantly promoting communication channels you run. In Sherri Tenpenny’s case, she’s promoting a ton of podcasts and newsletters and mailing lists. The near-term aim is to get an audience subscribed to those channels, so that you can have as many shots as possible as putting a sales pitch for your products in front of them. The long-term aim is to ultimately use those channels to shift as many as possible onto regularly buying whatever snake oil you’re peddling.
And that explains why you have some weird agglomerations of different views. I mean, she’s talking about chemicals, 5G, anti-vaccines, magnetism, faith healing…it seems incredibly unlikely for someone to have honestly picked up all of those highly-abnormal views and also have honestly come to the conclusion that they are an expert on them. But, if your goal is to just try to do a broad shotgun marketing blast towards anyone who might be upset with the mainstream in any sense and hook them in, you’re just looking to convert anyone you can get to following and listening to you.
The final goal is to use those communication channels you’ve established with them to get them sending you money for whatever product you’re trying to sell. “Alternative wellness” products are hard for the end user to evaluate the efficacy of, and you can mark them up to whatever, so snake oil makes for a good fit.
It’s not that people like Sherri Tenpenny are idiots and believe what they’re saying. It’s that they’re trying to perform a scam, and the collection of conspiracy or at least outside-the-mainstream ideas are “hooks” to try to draw people into the channel used to sell the scam.
Seriously! How does someone with a medical degree think magnetism manifests in the human body?
What do they call the person who graduated at the bottom of their class in med school?
“Doctor.”
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, an osteopathic doctor
She’s an osteopath. Calling her a doctor is like calling myself a “Pasta Architect” because I made a lasagne.
I think you’re confusing osteopathic with homeopathic or chiropractic. DOs are board certified physicians.
She was not a doctor of real medicine. She was a “doctor of osteopathic medicine” which is a pseudo science bullshit degree. Even if they are not nutjobs, at best they are a massage therapist not someone who studied human biology and medicine.
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.
Her license is a pseudoscience D.O. PhD. Her doctorate is treating a whole person. Not the symptoms or ailments. She is a fraud.
Big Magnet once again tries to silence the truth!1!
