Dr. Scott Jensen under investigation by the Minnesota Medical Board
The failed gubernatorial candidate is a member of Pandata, per the HART leaks
Dr. Scott Jensen, the family medicine doctor who lost his run at Minnesota governor in the midterm elections last year, announced on social media that he was under investigation by his state’s medical board, adding “If it can happen to me, it can happen to you!”.
The Complaint Review Committee has called for a conference with Dr. Jensen on February 24th, per the Notice of Conference he provided to local news outlet KTTC. It contains 18 complains about his spread of Covid disinformation.
Minnesotans fed up with his pandemic lies had called for medical license accountability for Jensen prior to re-electing his opponent Tim Walz in the November race.
Jensen used the attacks on his credentials on the campaign trail, crying censorship and vowing retribution on the medical board if elected.
In all of this political theater he failed to disclose his involvement in international organized disinformation. While not a member of the US-based disinformation doctor groups, Jensen is a member of South Africa-based, UK-active Pandata (alongside American physician Dr. Peter McCullough) and World Doctor’s Alliance, per the HART leaks. Their leaks show how closely far-right politicians and media worked with these groups to distort messaging. It’s a near overlap of what we have seen in the United States and individuals from the UK arm have worked with stateside groups.
Jensen’s attempts to convey his overdue accountability as an attack not just on him but on anyone who speaks out as he so “courageously” does (in line with his political affiliations) is Trumpian. It’s also how fascists gaslight for undeserved support. He is the problem. His actions have had consequences on others and it is high time they have consequences for him. Thanks to his November loss, he’s just a regular citizen without the power to carry out his revenge fantasies on the medical board.
In any case, accountability has come far too late for these politically-aligned disinformation doctors thanks in large part to politically-aligned lobbying efforts. One state over in Wisconsin, Senator Ron Johnson - who had hosted Jensen’s Pandata colleague McCullough on his conspiracy panels - won his re-election. He has joined the fight against medical license accountability for his allies, despite that falling completely outside his jurisdiction as a senator.
Doctors like Jensen and politicians like Johnson claim to want to take politics out of healthcare while politicizing medicine during a global crisis. There is no sympathy to be felt for power-hungry men like these who lie so brazenly and so destructively. Covid was not a political game; it has cost real people their real lives. Disinformation has been central to the global failure that has been the Covid response.