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

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (22 children)

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

[–] afraid_of_zombies 18 points 1 year 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?

[–] NielsBohron 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Maybe.

Although, medical doctors are also known to be severely lacking in skepticism and understanding of the scientific method (much like engineers), so depending on the doctor you talked to, they might actually believe it.

Source: anecdotal, but I've spent my entire adult life in higher ed chemistry departments taking classes with and then teaching premeds, and it's a real thing. Med school does nothing to alleviate this, being focused as it is on basically troubleshooting a single particularly complicated and poorly designed machine.

Edit: here are a few studies that corroborate my experience, although they're far from comprehensive ( Source 1 and Source 2)

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