New York Magazine
Hot New Conspiracy Theory:Vaccines Turn You Into a Magnet
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| IF A COVID SHOT CAN ATTRACT CAR KEYS, WHAT WILL TEN BILLION DO TO SOLAR WIND, GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS, AND SPACE WEATHER ? |
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
On Tuesday, dozens of people packed into a Cleveland, Ohio, health committee meeting to review a bill in the legislature that would weaken the state’s vaccination laws. Then a physician and “expert witness” stepped forward with an awesome claim:
The shots magnetize people, causing metal objects from pennies to forks to stick to their bodies.
“I’M SURE YOU'VE SEEN PICTURES... OF PEOPLE WHO'VE HAD THESE SHOTS, AND NOW THEY'RE MAGNETIZED"
SAID OSTEOPATH DR. SHERRY TENPENNY.
"THEY CAN PUT A KEY ON THEIR FOREHEAD. IT STICKS. THEY CAN PUT SPOONS AND FORKS ALL OVER THEM AND THEY CAN STICK."
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a bulletin last week:
“No. Receiving a COVID-19 vaccine will not make you magnetic...”
because the vaccine is free of “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” that can create an electromagnetic field.
THIS PECULIAR BELIEF IS NOT, ALAS, UNPRECEDED:
