Now there are claims that the Covid-19 vaccine will somehow magnetize your body so that spoons, ... [+]
On Wednesday, Ohio lawmakers asked Sherri Tenpenny, DO, for her thoughts about Covid-19 vaccines. And she provided a “key” argument against vaccination: that Covid-19 vaccines are actually magnetizing people so that keys can now stick to their foreheads.
Tenpenny, an osteopathic doctor and author of the book Saying No to Vaccines: A Resource Guide for All Ages, was testifying for the passage of Ohio House Bill 248. Sponsored primarily by Ohio State Representative Jennifer Gross (R), Bill 248 bears the name “Vaccine Choice and Anti-Discrimination Act,” but has nothing to do with racial or gender discrimination. Instead, the Act aims to “prohibit mandatory vaccinations, vaccination status disclosures, and certain other actions regarding vaccinations.” Given the title of Tenpenny’s book, take a wild guess as to the stance that she was taking when it comes to this Act and the Covid-19 vaccine.
The following NBC News video contained part of Tenpenny’s testimony:
As you can see, Tenpenny said, “I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized. They can put a key on their forehead. It sticks. They can put spoons and forks all over them and they can stick.”
Holy Magneto, Batman. I have already covered for Forbes unfounded claims on social media that magnets can stick to your arm where you’ve received the Covid-19 vaccination. The unproven assertions have been that the vaccines contain metal microchips that are being used to track you. Many of these claims have been shared on social media platforms such as Facebook, which ironically is most definitely tracking you.
But asserting that Covid-19 vaccines can actually make you into a gigantic magnet would be taking such claims to another level. It’s one thing if people want to spoon with you because you are attractive. It’s something completely different for you to become attractive to spoons. How the heck are you supposed to cook or eat anything if spoons and forks keep sticking to your body, like the following tweet thread suggests:
As you can see, things could get quite out of hand or face for that matter. At least though, this could keep from losing your keys, assuming that you could locate your face every day.
So how exactly might Covid-19 vaccines make you magnetic but not in a personality sort of way? Tenpenny for your thoughts? Well, she continued by saying, “There's been people who have long suspected that there was some sort of an interface, 'yet to be defined' interface, between what’s being injected in these shots and all of the 5G towers.” Oh, 5G, here we go with the 5G conspiracy theory that I have covered for Forbes previously.
There is one recurring issue issue with all of these claims, the claim that the Covid-19 vaccine is implanting a microchip so that magnets can stick to your arm, the claim that the Covid-19 vaccine can magnetize you, and the claim that the Covid-19 vaccine is somehow connected to 5G. And that issue has been the lack of scientific evidence supporting such claims. After all, anyone can make an assertion without providing any real hard evidence such as hedgehogs are taking over the Senate and squirrels are trading too much Bitcoin to make the market unstable.
So what evidence did Tenpenny provide? Well, later in the testimony, a nurse named Joanna Overholt gave the “demonstration” seen in the following tweet:
In the video, Overholt said, “Explain to me why the key sticks to me. It sticks to my neck too. So, yeah, if somebody could explain this, that would be great."
OK, there are plenty of possible reasons why a key may momentarily stick to your chest such as a little sweat, some honey, Gorilla Glue, or lack of showering. She didn’t seem to get either the key or the hairpin to stick to her neck though, unless that video was sped up by about 1000 times.
Of note, Tenpenny added the words, “yet to be proven,” after making her claims, because who needs proof before saying anything? For example, why not say that bunnies are plotting to take over the world when you see disturbing pictures like this:
By the way, what on Earth could these bunnies be talking about? Carrots? The Kardashians? Surely, it has to be plans for world domination since seeing pictures of bunnies huddling like they are on the field during the Super Bowl must be enough evidence. Something must be going down, because when someone posts something on social media, it’s gotta be true, right?
