June 2, 2021

More On Wendy Bell's Anti-Vaxx Crusade

 Wendy Bell has gotten herself fact-checked by FB. Again:

Ugh - again with misleading the public by misreading the VAERS data.

How long are you going to keep doing this, Wendy? Simply repeating the lie doesn't make it true - you know that, right?

Anyway, I wanted to focus your attention on the "expert" that Wendy chose to virtually welcome into her mid-tech basement studio: Dr. Sherri Tenpenny.

Let's go see what damage the good doctor has done.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate describes itself as:

The Center for Countering Digital Hate is an international not-for-profit NGO that seeks to disrupt the architecture of online hate and misinformation. The Center has offices in London and Washington DC.

And recently it published The Disinformation Dozen

Just twelve anti-vaxxers are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms. This new analysis of content posted or shared to social media over 812,000 times between February and March uncovers how a tiny group of determined anti-vaxxers is responsible for a tidal wave of disinformation - and shows how platforms can fix it by enforcing their standards.

Guess who's one of the twelve?

That's right, Dr Sherri Tenpenny (actually, she's fourth on the list).

Some examples of her "expertise" include:

  Politifact - "Pants on Fire":

A Feb. 9 video features former Nevada City, Calif., Mayor Reinette Senum and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, an osteopathic physician. Over the course of an hour, the two women characterize the coronavirus vaccine as "deadly" and a "bioweapon."
Tenpenny goes on:
"Some people are going to die from the vaccine directly," Tenpenny said in the video, which has nearly 1 million views. "But a large number of people are going to start getting horribly sick and get all kinds of autoimmune diseases, 42 days to maybe a year out."

Reuters:

A video message by [Dr Sherri Tenpenny], an osteopath known for her anti-vaccination campaigns and conspiracy theories says that mRNA-based COVID-19 shots may affect sperm and cause infertility. As of this fact-check’s publication [May 27, 2021], there is no evidence to back up these statements.

And:

Tenpenny wrongly says men have been advised not to have unprotected sex for at least six weeks after receiving Pfizer’s mRNA-based vaccine. She said that in her opinion, that is because the so-called “spike protein” from the virus could bind to the surface of the sperm and could change the sperm’s DNA, slow it or kill it, causing infertility or birth defects.

Reuters drops a dime on tenpenny:

There is currently no credible scientific evidence supporting the central claim made in the video that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines damage men’s sperm.

A study out of Israel published on May 3, 2021 (here), sought to investigate whether mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 affected sperm. They found “ the vaccine does not impair sperm parameters,” and actually recommended “couples desiring to conceive should vaccinate, as vaccination does not affect sperm whereas SARS-CoV-2 infection does impair sperm.”

AFP

An American physician and anti-vaccination advocate claims in a video viewed more than 169,000 times that widely used Covid-19 vaccines have not been properly tested and pose long-term health risks. But experts say her claims are inaccurate, the technology used in the inoculations was under development well before the pandemic, the shots were trialed on tens of thousands of people, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that long-term side effects are unlikely.

And this is who 3-percenter Wendy welcomes onto her show.

How many more people are going to suffer horribly simply because they believe Wendy Bell?

Meanwhile, as the number of vaccinations goes up the rate of Covid-19 deaths goes down.

Wendy Bell is the Angel of Death.