While I have reservations about Gardasil, I know that Erin Brockovich is just another scam artist.
You’ve got 28 bullets coming at you. Are you really better off if you can stop one of them?
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.
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.
Is there a vaccine against hybridized metaphors?
Spell check is your friend. Fix Merc and waver; please.
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.
I think that if a vaccine needs to be advertised on TV, then it's likely not a very good vaccine.
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.
Nothing quite like starting off your rant by butchering metaphors.
A decade or so ago I was at a scientific conference where this bimbo was invited as a “motivational” speaker. At the end of her talk she opened her blouse and shook her bra-enclosed boobs at the audience. Someone like that is difficult to take seriously.
Just another scumbag lawyer in search of that big class-action payoff.
The scam worked on PG&E, why not on Merck?
This vaccine being shoved down young girls throats is the same as distributing condoms in school. The problem is the perpetuation of ignorance. You can’t get pregnant if you use a condom. You can’t get HPV if you get the vaccine. Nowhere in either of these progressive mantras is abstinence mentioned. The only way not to get pregnant is not to have sex. The only way not to get HPV is not to have sex.
The behavior is being subversively promoted. This time, it’s big pharma who is doing the promoting, not Planned Parenthood.
There were relatively few side effects of vaccination. The proportion of subjects who reported one or more injection-site adverse events was higher in the vaccine group than in the placebo group (84.4% vs. 77.9%), with the most common event being injection-site pain (risk difference, 6.5 percentage points; 95% CI, 1.4 to 11.7) (Table 4). One subject in the placebo group discontinued participation owing to a serious injection-related adverse event (hypersensitivity). The proportions of women reporting serious adverse events were similar in the two treatment groups. (All systemic and serious adverse events, categorized by organ system and treatment group, are provided in Tables 5 and 6 of the Supplementary Appendix.) Within these categories, there were nominally significant differences in the percentages of subjects in the vaccine group and the placebo group who reported seasonal allergies (10 in the vaccine group and 2 in the placebo group [risk difference, 1.8; 95% CI, 0.3 to 3.7]) and neck pain (2 in the vaccine group and 10 in the placebo group [risk difference, –1.8; 95% CI, –3.7 to –0.3]). No multiplicity adjustments were made for these comparisons. Adverse-event profiles were generally similar for women with and without antibodies to one or more of the vaccine-related HPV types at enrollment.
This is a hard choice for the moonbats.
There's a better way not to get cervical cancer. It's called monogamy.
The human immune system is already being overloaded with too many vaccines. Mercury, animal viruses and animal DNA are not supposed to be injected directly into the human blood stream. The toxins can make their way into the CNS and the immune system and the body goes haywire. Because people's immunity and genetic vulnerabilities are different, you get different reactions in the test subjects. Who wants to play guinea pig or lab rat for this? The young women who take this should be tracked for MS, infertility, miscarriages, and weird cancers over the next few decades.
The medical mafiosi pushing this on young girls are irresponsible. They simply don't know this is safe. The adverse reactions already logged suggest otherwise.
If you took the experimental Polio vaccine in the 1950s or 1960s, there is a strong chance you were exposed to a cancer-causing monkey virus, spread from the monkey kidneys used to grow the vaccine. Know anyone with MS or a weird cancer in their 40s or 50s? Yeah, look around...
The article mentions that about 9000 adverse reactions have been reported, some of them very serious reactions. Of cours it doesn't mention how many of them were serious, not how many people have been given the drug.
I'm guessing it seems safe to assume that people are far less likely to have an adverse reaction to this drug than to peanuts or shellfish. There are very few substances to which someone doesn't have a serious adverse reaction.
I'm sure the drug doesn't immunize against all versions of the virus that have been linked to cancer. I however, suspect they picked the two that are most common.
What is so notable about this article is how obviously it attempts to skew the facts by leaving out important details.
You would think that on a topic so important as people's children's health that someone that was truly concerned about those children's health would try and present an accurate picture of the risks and benefits of this drug so that the parents can make an informed decision about how best to protect the health of their children.
The author doesn't appear to have that kind of integrity.
Good grief. That pig is looking for another jackpot?