Indebeted Physician Sherri Tenpenny: Part of the Disinformation Dozen (activist, premium, fence)

[Phil75230]

https://www.france24.com/en/live-new...vid-falsehoods

For Sherri Tenpenny, God is on the side of those who spurn Covid-19 vaccines. Making money, critics say, is the Ohio osteopath's higher calling.

From a $240 premium podcast annual membership to $165 webinars on why people "should not take the shot," health supplements and ticketed public speaking, Tenpenny runs a sprawling enterprise based on anti-vaccine activism, disdain for masks and testing, and denials that Covid-19 is real.

An AFP investigation has found that the 63-year-old widow developed a business around coronavirus skepticism at the same time as she owes US tax authorities at least half a million dollars.

Earlier this year, Tenpenny was named one of the worst known spreaders of falsehoods, myths and misleading statements about vaccines -- a group the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate dubbed the "Disinformation Dozen."

A separate study put her in the cadre of America's biggest anti-vaccine profiteers.

*Infamous for appearing at a Ohio State Legislature hearing, claiming vaccines were "magnetized" (since then, debunked. Any amateur scam artist can coat adhesive to part of skin the key sticks, and even the key itself).

*YouTube and other social media platforms took down her footage on account of her disinformation that causes harm, shown to be demonstrably false.

*Tenpenny bases her claims that vaccines are killing people on data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a federal government database. However the VAERS reports aren't verified, much less show causality. Agence France-Presse's repeatedly fact-checked VAERS claims, finding them to be inaccurate.

*Tenpenny's specialty is osteopathy, not epidemology. That alone should instantly invoke skepticism about her credentials. In short, she's talking way out of her field.

*She sells a "boot camp" of alternative vaccines for hundreds of dollars.

* She has unpaid assessments to the IRS of more than $500,000. Yet, she refuses to say if there's a connection between her business and the IRS.

*The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) lists Tenpenny as a "Pandemic Profiteer".

Does this physician sounds like someone who actually knows what she's talking about? Or is it more likely she's simply stoking anti-vaccine paranoia for profit?

[Fisherman99]

Not even a Medical Doctor but an anti-vaccine Osteopath...

QUACK!


Sherri J. Tenpenny is an American anti-vaccination activist who supports the disproven hypothesis that vaccines cause autism.[1]​ An osteopathic physician, she is the author of four books opposing vaccination. A 2015 lecture tour of Australia was canceled due to a public outcry over her views on vaccination, which oppose established scientific consensus.[1]​ A 2021 Center for Countering Digital Hate analysis concluded that Tenpenny is among the top twelve people spreading COVID-19 misinformation and pseudoscientific anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. She has falsely asserted the vaccines magnetize people and connect them with cellphone towers.[2]​[3]​[4]​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Tenpenny

[shadowne]

Originally Posted by Fisherman99

Not even a Medical Doctor but an anti-vaccine Osteopath...

QUACK!


Sherri J. Tenpenny is an American anti-vaccination activist who supports the disproven hypothesis that vaccines cause autism.[1]​ An osteopathic physician, she is the author of four books opposing vaccination. A 2015 lecture tour of Australia was canceled due to a public outcry over her views on vaccination, which oppose established scientific consensus.[1]​ A 2021 Center for Countering Digital Hate analysis concluded that Tenpenny is among the top twelve people spreading COVID-19 misinformation and pseudoscientific anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. She has falsely asserted the vaccines magnetize people and connect them with cellphone towers.[2]​[3]​[4]​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Tenpenny

You know who else is an osteopath?

This guy… https://kfor.com/news/local/patients...ls-ambulances/

Of course, we didn’t see you squawking QUACK! in that thread.

https://www.city-data.com/forum/poli...-up-rural.html

[Mr.Retired]

Oh yes.
Plenty of knuckle heads on both sides of the fence.

Give me Liberty of give me Fauci. ( sarcasm )

[Oldhag1]

Originally Posted by Fisherman99

Not even a Medical Doctor but an anti-vaccine Osteopath...

QUACK!


Sherri J. Tenpenny is an American anti-vaccination activist who supports the disproven hypothesis that vaccines cause autism.[1]​ An osteopathic physician, she is the author of four books opposing vaccination. A 2015 lecture tour of Australia was canceled due to a public outcry over her views on vaccination, which oppose established scientific consensus.[1]​ A 2021 Center for Countering Digital Hate analysis concluded that Tenpenny is among the top twelve people spreading COVID-19 misinformation and pseudoscientific anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. She has falsely asserted the vaccines magnetize people and connect them with cellphone towers.[2]​[3]​[4]​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherri_Tenpenny

Your pasted info included handy links to help you understand terminology. So here’s part of the information you would find if you clicked on that Osteopathic Physician link:

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO or D.O.) is a medical degree offered by medical schools in the United States. A DO graduate may become licensed as a physician. DOs have full practice rights in all 50 US states. As of 2021, there were more than 168,000 osteopathic physicians and osteopathic medical students in the United States.

DO degrees are offered in the United States at 37 medical schools. As of 2021, more than 26% of US medical students were DO students. The curricula at osteopathic medical schools are equivalent to those at MD-granting medical schools, which focus the first two years on the biomedical and clinical sciences, then two years on core clinical training in the clinical specialties.

Translation: An osteopathic physician is considered equivalent to a medical doctor..