Sometimes you cannot believe what people tell you. For handling our current Coronavirus crisis the last thing we need is useless disinformation. A web page at the Rational Wiki says that:
“Sherri J. Tenpenny is an osteopath and an American professional anti-vaccination liar…”
And there is a page on her at the Encyclopedia of American Loons, which never a good sign.
There is a three-minute YouTube video from June 10, 2021 taken from the Brian Williams show, The 11th Hour, on MSNBC and titled Conspiracy Theorists Think Covid Vaccines Make You Magnetic. Sherri spoke to a committee of the Ohio legislature and delivered information worth even less than the $0.10 her name might imply:
“Is it a combination of the protein which now we’re finding has a metal attached to it? I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who’ve had these shots and now they’re magnetized. You 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 there’s a metal piece to that. There’s been people who’ve long suspected that there was some sort of an interface, yet to be defined, an interface between what’s being injected in these shots and all of the 5G towers.”
On May 22, 2021 BBC News had a reality check article with a video titled Covid Vaccines: No, your jab isn’t magnetic. Joe Schwarcz of the McGill Office for Science and Society has an article on June 11, 2021 titled Can vaccines make our body magnetic? where his answer of course is NO! The Centers for Disease Control has a web page titled Myths and Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines. Under the question Can receiving a COVID-19 vaccine cause you to be magnetic? they have this reply:
“No. Receiving a COVID-19 vaccine will not make you magnetic, including at the site of vaccination which is usually your arm. COVID-19 vaccines do not contain ingredients that can produce an electromagnetic field at the site of your injection. All COVID-19 vaccines are free from metals such as iron, nickel, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth alloys, as well as any manufactured products such as microelectronics, electrodes, carbon nanotubes, and nanowire semiconductors. In addition, the typical dose for a COVID-19 vaccine is less than a milliliter, which is not enough to allow magnets to be attracted to your vaccination site even if the vaccine was filled with a magnetic metal.”
Why can keys and other objects stick to your skin? At Skepchick on June 15, 2021 there is an article (and a ten-minute YouTube video) by Rebecca Watson titled The long history of people who think they’re magnetic. She explains that the skin secretes an oily, waxy substance called sebum. (Look at another article by Mary Salisbury at howstuffworks titled Sebum Overview). Rebecca explains that if you coat skin with baby powder, then objects won’t stick anymore.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate has a web page for their March 24, 2021 report titled The Disinformation Dozen (Why platforms must act on twelve leading online anti-vaxxers). Sherri is number four on the list of twelve who are responsible for almost two-thirds of the web disinformation.
I am awarding Sherri a special pink Magnetic Spoutly for her spouting a whale-load of nonsense.
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