Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. And now, she’s claiming she has a doctorate in a slightly more unusual subject.
During Thursday’s meeting of the House oversight committee’s COVID-19 subcommittee, Greene questioned Food and Drug Administration official Dr. Peter Marks about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines once they became widely available in 2021.
“It’s estimated in the United States about 3.2 million lives [were saved] and it’s estimated, globally, that COVID-19 vaccines saved over 14 million lives, conservatively,” Marks said.
Greene wasn’t buying it.
“I may not be a doctor but I have a PHD in recognizing bullshit when I hear it,” Greene told the panel.
She then spent the rest of her time citing misinformation about the dangers of COVID-19 vaccines.
Greene has pushed other conspiracy theories, such as the idea that a prominent Jewish banking family used space lasers to set wildfires in California. So many folks on X, formerly known as Twitter, were skeptical.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), who followed Greene, opened up his questioning with an apology to Marks:
“I’m sorry you all had to go through that. That was a lot of conspiracy theories and wild accusations that have been debunked by medical science.”
Rep. Garcia responds to MTG’s testimony by telling witnesses, “I’m sorry you all had to go through that. That was a lot of conspiracy theories and wild accusations that have been debunked by medical science.” pic.twitter.com/yOZNXGtGjF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 15, 2024
Garcia then followed up by displaying posts from Greene about COVID-19 and had Marks address their accuracy.
Spoiler alert: Not accurate at all.
You can watch the exchange below.
with MTG looking on, Rep. Garcia displays one of her vaccine misinformation tweets and has an expert witness debunk it. The witness apologizes on MTG’s behalf to the parents of children who had died from covid, and says that’s why getting vaccinated is so important. pic.twitter.com/rP3fvg2OHq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 15, 2024
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