While testifying, the physician did mention her books, podcast, blog and social media. 'It has to be specifically in order to solicit patients or you specifically get money for those false misrepresentations.'

'That sometimes is a difficult question,' she said. 'It's not 100% crystal clear that she violated anything, but they're just trying to investigate.'īut could the board take action against someone for spreading disinformation? Hoffman said potentially. 'It sounds like maybe that's why she's being investigated,' Case Western Reserve University law professor Sharona Hoffman said. Right on cue, someone claiming to be a nurse practitioner attempted to stick a key to her neck after asserting she, herself, was magnetized. 'There has been people who have long suspected that there was some sort of an interface, yet to be defined, in the interface between what's being injected in the shots and all of the 5G towers,' Tenpenny continued in her demonstrably false testimony. Beth Liston (D-Dublin), who is also a physician, challenged each of Tenpenny's claims, much to the audience's frustration. '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.' 'I'm sure you've seen the pictures all over the internet of people who've had these shots, and now they're magnetized, and put a key on their forehead, it sticks,' she said, repeating a conspiracy theory. The doctor gave an egregiously erroneous testimony for a 'medical freedom' type house bill, one which never passed. Sherri Tenpenny, an Olmsted Falls osteopathic physician, has been failing to cooperate with investigators for more than a year, including by defying a subpoena, according to the board's formal action letter.Īlthough the letter doesn't go into detail on why the original investigation began, as investigations are confidential, the medical board said the first time an investigator reached out to Tenpenny was just a few weeks after she spoke at the Ohio Statehouse in June of 2021. COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Cleveland doctor who falsely claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine makes people magnetic and may be connected to 5G towers is currently under investigation by the state medical board.ĭr.

Magnet sticking to covid shot