this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023

502 points (97.4% liked)

News

23265 readers

3539 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.

2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.

Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.

5. Only recent news is allowed.

Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.

6. All posts must be news articles.

No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.

7. No duplicate posts.

If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.

8. Misinformation is prohibited.

Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.

9. No link shorteners.

The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.

10. Don't copy entire article in your post body

For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

502

This doctor said vaccines magnetize people. Ohio suspended her medical license. (www.cleveland.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/news

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

“I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized,” Tenpenny said to the panel of lawmakers.

“They can put a key on their forehead and it sticks … There have been people who have long suspected there’s an interface, yet to be defined, an interface between what’s being injected in these shots and all of the 5G towers.”

The comments backfired. Gross’ bill stalled out after Tenpenny’s comments. And they sparked the investigation that would cost Tenpenny her license.

Nutter lost her license. Good.

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] mo_ztt 116 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least on paper, they suspended her not directly for being a loony, but for being actively hostile to their attempts to investigate what she was saying and why.

Conspiracy theorists take note: They never attempted to "silence" her; they actually asked her to indicate in detail why she believed these things, and she twice refused to show up and explain. After the second time, they then suspended her license.

While board members emphasized the punishment is connected to the procedural issues and not the bunk health claims, the medical board’s staff makes clear the basis for its inquiry in their formal report. They asked Tenpenny what evidence she had that vaccines make people magnetic or interface with cell towers, and for more information about the claim that major metro areas are “liquifying dead bodies and pouring them into the water supply.”

Tenpenny failed to attend either of her two hearings before board staff. Her attorneys even failed to show up to the second. Forcing protracted litigation every time the board wants to interview physicians it regulates, he said, would render the body unable in practice to carry out its duties.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

the claim that major metro areas are “liquifying dead bodies and pouring them into the water supply.”

Welp, that one's new to me

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because you didn't do your research!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

2+ hour video

[–] mo_ztt 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

So I think things like this, and like the one about harvesting knee fluid from patients to resell on the black market, are actually a feature of the conspiracy theories.

If you start buying into something pretty plausible, and then later you come to your senses, it's not that painful to just let it go and admit you were wrong. If, on the other hand, you buy into something that's clearly batshit insane, then you can't admit you were wrong and that any toddler could have seen that it didn't make sense. Because at that point it's tantamount to admitting that you're a helpless gullible moron whom no one should ever listen to again.

And presto, you're in deep, and you can't let go, or you pay a terrible cost.

[–] Joecool2087 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait...my knees are pretty garbage. How would you know if your knee fluid had been harvested?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does the knee fluid indicator light up?

[–] oKtosiTe 4 points 1 year ago

Doctors and car mechanics don't want you to know this, but knee fluid is actually the same as blinker fluid.

You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think that's a concious realization or subconscious?

[–] TurtleJoe 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's subconscious. Once people have their identity sufficiently tied into a set of beliefs, it can be impossible to see their own logical mistakes. This can go for religion, politics, conspiracies, etc.

Maybe check out George Lakoff's excellent book on the concept of reality framing, "Don't Think Of An Elephant."

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] Alteon 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we actively chum our local River with human remains. Blood for the Blood God, am I right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The water....is PEOPLE! It's made of people!!

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tap water with extra flavors. The Old Guy's Ghost, Granny's Sweetest, Forever Young, OSHA Told-ya So.

[–] geogle 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well vaccines certainly polarized the population

[–] Imgonnatrythis 7 points 1 year ago

Mechanism found!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not a doctor. She's a fucking osteopath, ie a masseuse with delusions of grandeur

[–] bluu 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Doctors of osteopathic medicine (DO) are legitimate doctors (at least from my experience in the US healthcare system). They function identically to doctors of allopathic medicine (MD) with the rare addition of osteopathic manipulation. But their standards of training and credentialing are essentially the same. You'll find crackpot DOs and MDs if you look for them.

Source: I am a M.D. in the US.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] itsAsin 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... a fucking osteopath without a license.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 6 points 1 year ago

So not an osteopath.

[–] SulaymanF 10 points 1 year ago

Osteopaths in general are good and competent physicians, she’s just insane.

[–] PKMKII 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn all these vaccines have turned me into Magneto? Awesome!

[–] andrewta 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it’s your fault! You stole the iron from my body. The neurons in my head needs to eat that iron to stay healthy. You’re the reason I’m dumber than I used to be.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also the reason I don't have any copper wiring left in my house, probably.

[–] andrewta 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry that was my fault. I needed to replace my copper fillings in my teeth. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

@andrewta @nueonetwo

Your green teeth are cute tho.

[–] LEDZeppelin 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She can run for and win Ohio senate seat with that qualification*

as long as she runs with ‘R’ next to her name.

[–] meldroc 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder if there's a /c/HermanCainAward...

[–] RampageDon 9 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“They can put a key on their forehead and it sticks …

What kind of people can't do that? Has she even tried it herself?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People who palm a glue stick when they need to prove that keys that are mostly made of brass and nickel will stick to them “like a magnet”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like that fat guy who claimed the same thing until someone told him to put baby powder on his sweaty ass arms and miraculously it quit sticking

[–] reversebananimals 11 points 1 year ago

Did she ask to speak to Ohio's manager?

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 11 points 1 year ago

If vaccines cause magnesium then call me Magneto

[–] firewyre 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OMG, I wrote to the state medical board when she started saying this dumb shit asking them to revoke her license and they actually did it!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think she's just made up the magnetized thing, I've not heard anyone else make that claim before, you know because it's easily disprovable.

Also why would anyone deliberately magnetize the population what's the benefits supposed to be?

I wish these idiots would come up with conspiracy theories at least had some internal consistency.

[–] schroedingershat 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, it's been around for a while. Someone pulled it in front of a public forum and the speaker made him put talc on it and try again. The look of sheer confusion and mild sadness when it fell of was golden.

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Their liquefying dead bodies and dumping them in the water supply!

Oh those companies that are dumping carcinogens and chemicals that remain in your body forever? That's fine, they're just businessers doing business.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She probably shouldn't have driving or fishing licenses either.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Redredme 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Years ago I shot a guy named Tenpenny and threw him and his aide from his tower after he made me nuke a small town because it was a blight on his horizon.

Since then I never trusted anyone named tenpenny.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

How did she arrive here, at a conclusion that can be disproven by anyone, anywhere, anytime?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Being slightly magnetic could prove useful: never again would cutlery fall from your hands!

And being capable of interfacing with 5G antennas? Becoming my own personal signal booster?

ah, foiled again...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I dunno, I mean, I could stick a key to my forehead when I was eight, I just needed to be a little sweaty.

[–] Ddhuud 6 points 1 year ago

In the minds of conspiracy theorists this validates her speech.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“They can put a key on their forehead and it sticks

Be honest, you tried it didn't you?

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Tiny bit of justice. I love it.

[–] eatisaiy 3 points 1 year ago

No offense but how is this news

load more comments