Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Hoo boy. Sherri Tenpenny is a Cleveland-based physician with a reputation for spreading baseless claims about the novel coronavirus (which she called a “scamdemic”) and vaccines in general. Among those fabricated claims were assertions Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine can cause genetic defects in sperm that cause congenital disabilities, and that covid-19 vaccines will wreak havocon the lungs, causing auto-immune disease among both adults and children and killing many “directly.”
But that all pales beside her biggest whopper. Addressing legislators in the Ohio House in early June, Tenpenny claimed that people who received the vaccines would become magnetized. Really. We’re not joking.
“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, according to the Washington Post. “They can put a key on their forehead. It sticks. They can put spoons and forks all over them and they can stick, because now we think that there’s a metal piece to that.”
She also argued that somehow, the vaccine was interfacing with next-generation wireless communications technology being rolled out around the globe: “There’s been people who have long suspected that there’s been some sort of an interface, ‘yet to be defined’ interface, between what’s being injected in these shots and all of the 5G towers.”
According to the Post, a number of Republican representatives present at Tenpenny’s testimony praised her, with one calling her “enlightened.”
As part of a demonstration to the assembled legislators, a woman who identified herself as a nurse defended Tenpenny’s remarks by attempting to stick a key to her neck. It didn’t work.
Wow. An anti-vaccine nurse in Ohio tried to prove the Vaccines Cause Magnetism theory in an state legislative committee. The demonstration did not go to plan pic.twitter.com/0ubELst4E8
— Tyler Buchanan (@Tylerjoelb) June 9, 2021
“Explain to me why the key sticks to me. It sticks to my neck too,” the woman told the Ohio House as the key repeatedly fell off her neck. “Yeah, if somebody could explain this, that would be great.”
