House Republican Mark Green, A Doctor, Makes Debunked Claim About Fentanyl At CPAC

[RandySF]

Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), a physician, dubiously claimed at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday that touching fentanyl on a dollar bill can kill you.

That prompted a diagnosis of “idiocy” on Twitter.

“Every American in our country is at risk for this,” Green told the D.C.-area CPAC gathering in discussing the opioid crisis. “You pick up a dollar that’s got fentanyl on it and you’re dead.”

The claim about casual fatal contact with the synthetic opioid has been making the rounds and has been dismissed as a myth.

“You can’t overdose on fentanyl by touching a doorknob or dollar bill,” said Daniel Colby, co-medical director at UC-Davis Health’s Department of Emergency Medicine.



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-green-fentanyl-cpac_n_6401dd21e4b08223f12e0342

[hlthe2b]

1. Uggh. This is what happens when we don't have repercussions for physicians that lie about COVID-19

Now, they are emboldened to do so about every damned thing, from fentanyl to childhood vaccines. Free speech applies to everyone, but knowingly harmful and untrue speech--especially from a professional licensed by a state's medical board-- should not be free of repercussions

[underpants]

2. Green is a doorknob

[keithbvadu2]

3. Name some names, Doc. Who has died from this?