Sherri Tenpenny is no longer a licensed physician after airing fringe comments and ducking investigators.

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    1 year ago

    I agree. I work with a bunch of literal rocket scientists - amazingly smart people. In discussing work stuff, every one of them will insist on data to make decisions. But a few of them will start taking about politics and go off on some diatribe about vaccines, climate change, deep state, or whatever - things completely unsupported by facts or data. I just don’t understand how people can compartmentalize their whole way of thinking like that.

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      1 year ago

      And then there’s religion… it always seemed similarly odd to me that otherwise rational people can believe in the adult version of Santa. These are often the same people.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, agreed, though I suppose it’s a lot harder to get away from something that your whole family, maybe even your whole community, has been saying is true since your entire life, especially something that includes “there’s no proof, it’s a matter of faith.” I cut people a little slack for that.