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Fact check: Hoax post impersonating Mayo Clinic physician continues to circulate

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  1. Pro_Line_FL

    Pro_Line_FL Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    This comes across as a very typical ploy by the Trump supporting pseudo-cons. They love to paint themselves as the victims of some dark conspiracy, and I say its typical because it combines their 3 favorite topics: Abortion, whiteness, Trump supporter victimhood. They claim some doctor at Mayo Clinic tricked Trump supporters to abort their white babies. This is spreading like a wildfire in the RW social media

    Fact check: Hoax post impersonating Mayo Clinic physician continues to circulate
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...trump-supporters-hoax-mayo-clinic/7637860001/
    The claim: Mayo Clinic staff member misdiagnosed pregnancies of Trump supporters
    Recently, some social media users have been outraged to read a post in which a Twitter user purporting to be a doctor claims to be tricking supporters of former president Donald Trump into terminating healthy pregnancies.

    "When Trump supporters come to my office at the Mayo Clinic, I love misdiagnosing their healthy pregnancies as ectopic so they have to abort their white fetuses," the tweet reads.

    A screenshot of the tweet appeared in a June 14 Instagram post posted by conservative outreach group Young America's Foundation. The screenshot also included a tweet from another anonymous social media poster claiming to be a doctor who gives Trump supporters vitamins instead of antibiotics.
     
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    Pro_Line_FL, Jun 29, 2022
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  2. MJ Davies

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    Why would anybody reading that think it's legitimate? It sounds stupid. They don't advertise it if that's what is happening (and I actually know some that really do but they target minorities and pregnant teens).
     
    MJ Davies, Jun 29, 2022
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    fmw Well-Known Member

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    This is the price we pay for using Twitter and then believing what we read there. I don't understand why this was brought up at all here.
     
    fmw, Jun 29, 2022
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    WTH? I visit a bunch of 'social media' and haven't heard a thing about this, much less it looks like it was written by a twelve year old.
     
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  5. Durandal

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    It's the kind of thing that Russian trolls would come up with and circulate on wrong-wing sites and Fakebook groups.
     
    Durandal, Jun 29, 2022
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    Pro_Line_FL Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes, it sounds stupid. Even if it was true, no doctor would be dumb enough to admit doing it.

    Sure, but people swallow it anyway.
     
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    MJ Davies Well-Known Member

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    RAW:
    Until the Orange Stain happened, I had a higher opinion of our fellow countrymen and women.
     
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    Or, some people will swallow the idea that other people are swallowing it.....
     
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    Sterilization would be a much more effective solution IMO.
     
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    We just need to find a way to hype up leuprolide acetate as a miracle cure for Covid. :D
     
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    If true I'm sure we can all agree that this is criminal.
     
    Steady Pie, Jul 3, 2022
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    Identifying and fully ignoring misinformation is an acquired skill. Perhaps doing so is a bit selfish. Then again, perhaps not.
     
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