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Erin Brockovich: Gardasil (the case against Merck's HPV vaccine)
The Brockovich Report ^ | August 6, 2008 | Erin Brockovich

Posted on 08/07/2008 7:13:47 AM PDT by weegee

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1 posted on 08/07/2008 7:13:48 AM PDT by weegee
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To: weegee

While I have reservations about Gardasil, I know that Erin Brockovich is just another scam artist.


2 posted on 08/07/2008 7:16:28 AM PDT by ikka
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To: weegee

You’ve got 28 bullets coming at you. Are you really better off if you can stop one of them?


3 posted on 08/07/2008 7:16:40 AM PDT by DManA
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To: weegee

Good article. Governor Perry managed to piss off a lot of Republicans and Conservatives in Texas when he tried to shove it down Texans’ throats, even after his ties to the company were already publicized.


4 posted on 08/07/2008 7:17:31 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: ikka

She may or may not be, but Merck needs to have their dirty laundry aired. They’ve bought off a lot of politicians.


5 posted on 08/07/2008 7:18:25 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: weegee
Gardasil, as you should know by now, is an HPV vaccine sold by Merc, a vaccine with a flawed marketing campaign targeting young girls.

Actually, it is spelled "Merck".

If you are going to sue somebody for umpty-diddly dollars, the first step is to spell their name right.

6 posted on 08/07/2008 7:19:00 AM PDT by gridlock (Barack Obama is the Sanjaya Malakar of American Politics...)
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To: weegee
Personally, I wouldn't let any female member of my family be a guinea pig for this vaccine.
7 posted on 08/07/2008 7:19:00 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: ikka

But, but Hollyweird says she is a heroine. Beautiful too.

After all she “stood up” to a greedy, exploitative American corporation run by hateful, white Christian males.

And what, after all, is more important than that?


8 posted on 08/07/2008 7:19:45 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: weegee
getting all our ducks armed for bear and in a row

Is there a vaccine against hybridized metaphors?

9 posted on 08/07/2008 7:19:46 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Stop the O-bomb.)
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To: weegee

Spell check is your friend. Fix Merc and waver; please.


10 posted on 08/07/2008 7:22:58 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Stop the O-bomb.)
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While I have reservations about Gardasil, I know that Erin Brockovich is just another scam artist.

Do you have any evidence which shows that anything said in this article is untrue?

11 posted on 08/07/2008 7:24:14 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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I don’t understand how the FTC is even allowing this stuff to be marketed the way it is.

It is shown to prevent HPV (genetal warts) at least certain strains... and yes, genital warts can lead to cervical cancer, but not always.

So the logic is, prevent HPV, you prevent cancer, but that’s a secondary, not what the vaccine actually does, so its marketing campaign seems disingenuous from the get go.


12 posted on 08/07/2008 7:24:19 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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Uh, I don’t think the religion of the PG&E executives had anything to do with them poisoning people and trying to cover it up.


13 posted on 08/07/2008 7:25:20 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: weegee
Logically, if there are 15 types, and the vaccine only prevents two of them, then the end result is that two will be eliminated, and the other 13 will expand to take their place.

I think that if a vaccine needs to be advertised on TV, then it's likely not a very good vaccine.

14 posted on 08/07/2008 7:25:54 AM PDT by wbill
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I couldn’t believe that she spelled it wrong, so I checked the link..and she did. I’m with you...if you’re going to sue the pants off of them, at least have the courtesy of spelling the name right.


15 posted on 08/07/2008 7:26:16 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast; gridlock

Her posting had both spellings in it (Merck and Merc).

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The enemy of my enemy is not my friend but I opposed the mandatory use of this vaccine. And I never heard why only the girls were getting it when guys get cancer from HPV too.

Also there will be women in this world who would not have the HPV vaccination and the guys would still be carriers.

I thought at the time that it had to be so that this vaccination could be tabled as a “women’s issue”.


16 posted on 08/07/2008 7:27:56 AM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: weegee

Holy DES, Batman, why would anyone foist a drug on pre-pubsecent girls with no clue as to the reproductive impact even 10 years down the road.


17 posted on 08/07/2008 7:32:42 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (College kid: "Do you have a minute for Obama?" NVA: "Not now or ever.")
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To: af_vet_rr

Gov Perry is a disappointment just like his good friend Bush. Government Mandatory positions are not conservative way of thinking.


18 posted on 08/07/2008 7:36:03 AM PDT by Orange1998
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And of course, there are even worse things girls can get from unprotected intercourse. I worry about these things that give kids a false sense of security. I remember the looks on some of my students’ faces when I told them that birth control pills did not protect them from STDs.

susie


19 posted on 08/07/2008 7:37:17 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: weegee
We have been spending our days getting all our ducks armed for bear and in a row...

Nothing quite like starting off your rant by butchering metaphors.

20 posted on 08/07/2008 7:37:29 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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