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An Anti-vax Nurse Tried, And Failed, To Make A Key Stick To Her Neck As Proof That COVID-19 Vaccines Make You Magnetic
By Mia Jankowicz
A woman testify- ing at an Ohio Statehouse hear- ing made a failed attempt to get a key and a bobby pin to stick to her neck Tuesday, frustrating her attempt to prove a conspiracy theory that COVID-19 vaccines make people magnetic.
The woman, who was identified as a nurse by the local news site the Ohio Capital Journal, was speaking at a hearing to pro- mote the GOP- sponsored House Bill 248, which addresses civil liberties around vaccines.
Taking the stand, the unnamed nurse tried a practical demon- stration of the conspiracy theory.
Video of the testi- mony was posted by the Ohio Capital Journal reporter Tyler Buchanan.
The nurse said she took her cues from an earlier speaker, the con- spiracist doctor Sherri Tenpenny, who wrote "Saying No to Vaccines" and had been invited
to the hearing by Republicans.
Tenpenny
had falsely said the COVID-19 vaccine could make people "magnetized," claiming that peo- ple could "put spoons and forks all over" and they would stick because of mag- netic particles in the vaccines.
"You were talking about Dr. Tenpenny's testi- mony about mag- netic vaccine crystals?" the nurse said. "So this is what I found out."
"So I have a key and a bobby pin here," she contin- ued, proceeding to put a key on her chest, where
it stayed. "Explain to me why the key sticks to me."
She then put the key on her neck, where it fell off. Trying the same thing with a bobby pin, it fell off.
Nonetheless, she said: "It sticks to my neck too. Yeah so if some- body can explain this, it would be
great. Any ques- tions?"
The full hearing included a jumble of conspiracy the- ories involving 5G towers and other false vaccine claims, the Journal reported.
House Bill 248 has been charac- terized by its sponsor, Republican state Rep. Jennifer Gross, as a "free- dom bill" rather than a "scientific" one, the Journal reported.
It would prohibit mandatory vacci- nations, stop businesses from denying service to unvaccinated people, and out- law any obligation to disclose whether you have been vaccinated, among other measures. It is currently in the committee stage.
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