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The right and wrong way to talk about Gardasil; Update: A really, really stupid attack on Palin
Michelle Malkin ^ | 9/13/11 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 09/13/2011 12:27:11 PM PDT by Anamnesis

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To: ozzymandus
I don't think it's a matter of Malkin hating anyone. It's a matter of understanding exactly what a candidates policies have been, not just what their statements are now in campaign mode.

As to those who wish to ignore or justify their specific candidates shortcomings, they do so at their own peril. It might work. Then again (in a General Election), it might not.

21 posted on 09/13/2011 12:57:43 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: ozzymandus
I’d say Malkin really hates Perry. I’d also say this whole issue has really been overblown. Wasn’t there an “opt-out” on this vaccination deal?

An opt-out that was not publicized and put the onus of responsiblity on the Parents to do all the leg-work to NOT have their children vaccinated for a disease or condition acquired through sexual promiscuity.

Got any more excuses?
22 posted on 09/13/2011 12:57:55 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: Anamnesis
If Perry was simply “erring on the side of life”...

Since to err is human and some politicians are human, we would do well to choose politicians who are likely to err on the side of caution, more specifically, to err on the side of the Constitution and individual freedom and liberty.

The Gardasil issue tells me that the politician we're looking for is not Perry.

23 posted on 09/13/2011 1:00:04 PM PDT by GBA
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
who were putting “women’s lives” at risk

You said he was being transferred because he was in grave danger.
Jessep: That's correct-
Kaffee: You said danger, I said grave danger? You said "is there any other kind?"

24 posted on 09/13/2011 1:05:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: beandog

Michelle Malkin has certainly done her homework here. And I think I largely agree with her position. I am not an “anti-vaccine loon”, and would get my child a shot where the risks of death from the disease, or an epidemic killing large numbers, was sufficiently high. But this list has absolutely exploded since I was a kid, and something does not pass the smell test. Like her I look at the list and decide which I feel as a parent are worth the risk. Chicken Pox and Mumps have never killed anyone.

Also very interesting that Merck suspended their lobbying campaign once Perry decided he had designs on the White House.


25 posted on 09/13/2011 1:06:13 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Perdogg

>>If going to call someone a moron, at least have the balls to do it to his or her face.<<

Here is my exact quote:

“Exactly. I have little respect for morons who are willingly blind, and actually hostile to the truth.

It’s stupidity like that that got us McCain.”

You have put the shoe on and found it fits, I see.


26 posted on 09/13/2011 1:06:33 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: kevkrom
Texas has an "opt out" system in general, but the EO to mandate Gardasil references it only in directing the health department to make the form avaialble via the Internet

Pennsylvania has a vaccine opt-out, but the forms are harder to find than the first hole on Ed Rendell's belt. A little hole-in-the-wall health foods store I know keeps a stack of them by the register. And if you call your school officials they will deny up-and-down that any such opt-out exists, until you throw one of these forms on their desk and they begin stammering.
27 posted on 09/13/2011 1:13:18 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Anamnesis

Thank you for posting this. Mrs. Malkin has a sharp wit for cutting to the chase scene. This was very well done and quite informative.


28 posted on 09/13/2011 1:15:28 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I did not support McCain in the primary, I supported Fred Thompson. I did support McCain in the GE which I hope you did.


29 posted on 09/13/2011 1:16:47 PM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: Anamnesis

I think when the Perry population sees this clarification, some unusual neural transfer behind their glazed retinas turns it into a recipe for chicken pot pie.

“Vote Perry, he’ll give you chicken pot pie! It’s so good it gives 12 year old girls seizures!”


30 posted on 09/13/2011 1:17:42 PM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Michelle Malkin is on a roll. And talk about a fast update/rebuttal.
After all this, Perry comes out as a slippery Statist with ethical problems.

TWB

31 posted on 09/13/2011 1:20:29 PM PDT by TWhiteBear (Jobs, Peace, Food, Security .... Down with Obama(Peacefully))
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To: Jim from C-Town
Look, I don't even know if I have a problem with the vaccine. What I do have a problem with is everybody excusing Gov. Perry's actions. I firmly believe, if a Democrat Gov. had done the same thing and said the same things Perry said about people who were against, it we would all be screaming bloody murder.

I just hate the hypocrisy.

32 posted on 09/13/2011 1:21:25 PM PDT by beandog (You can't elevate Perry by tearing down Palin)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

>>A little hole-in-the-wall health foods store I know keeps a stack of them by the register. And if you call your school officials they will deny up-and-down that any such opt-out exists, until you throw one of these forms on their desk and they begin stammering. <<

Someone needs to do a sting video of exactly what you described. Then expose it for all the world to see.


33 posted on 09/13/2011 1:23:41 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: Tribune7

Sorry but you are wrong. Simply making the funds available to get the vaccine if you choose to and mandating that a child get the vaccine are two different things. Perry could have done the exact same thing, he chose not.

My question is, if as Perry and his supporters claim, he had to have an opt out option, instead of an opt in option, in order to get Federal Funds, how did Alaska get the funds?

I also didn’t hear Gov. Palin imply that if you were against the requirement that you didn’t care if women got cervical cancer.

Also, if it’s such a super idea, why now is Perry apologizing for it?


34 posted on 09/13/2011 1:28:15 PM PDT by beandog (You can't elevate Perry by tearing down Palin)
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To: Anamnesis

Hope people research this for themselves, but here’s an article that lists some concerns about Gardasil...

Those with Perrywinkle Glazed Eye Syndrome that blocks out info critical to Perry may only see what looks like a Chinese takeout menu...

GARDASIL is the vaccine promoted as protection against various types of cervical cancer supposedly caused by the HPV virus, and obviously is intended for other purposes. Even with the number of deaths and injury from the vaccine the ads ran non-stop on TV while state and federal governments tried to find ever newer and more invasive ways of making mandatory vaccination a reality. They got their wish; Obamacare calls for mandatory vaccination and proof of updates to vaccinations in order to get any healthcare.

Neither, Gardasil® nor any of the individual active ingredients have been previously approved for commercial marketing or use under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Public Health Service Act, or the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act, according to their application for patent.

Gardasil! It isn’t just for the girls!

In 2010 Merck was still waiting for the blessings of FDA to make mandatory their Gardasil vaccine for boys. As recently as November 2010, FDA was thinking of changing the terminology for male Gardasil from “Mandatory” to “Recommended”; after all, we’re dealing with the family jewels here and these are far more important than a few dead ovaries. But approval did come after the male version of Gardasil was tested on 602 young men from the ages of 9 to 26. (I can’t help but wonder how many of these young men knew they were being tested with this deadly vaccine).

Please note in this next article that Gardasil has been expanded to include far more than cervical cancer and includes the observation that “HPV is THOUGHT to be the cause”…not, is the cause or, we know it’s the cause, or we can prove conclusively, or there is substantial evidence,…they just think it could be. This is a broad and vague claim and totally without any conclusive supporting evidence.

Med Page Today:

WASHINGTON — An FDA advisory panel has expressed its support for expanding the indication on the quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine Gardasil to prevent anal intraepithelial neoplasia and anal cancer in males and females ages 9 through 26.

Gardasil was approved in 2006 to prevent genital warts and cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancer in females ages 9 to 26; the vaccine’s indication was expanded in 2009 to include prevention of genital warts in males of that age range.

FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee agreed that the three-dose vaccine should also be used to prevent anal intraepithelial neoplasia and anal cancer caused by HPV strains 6, 11, 16, and 18. HPV is thought to be the cause of 90% of anal cancers.”

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In 2008 Merck planned the expansion of Gardasil injections targeting young boys and says the most important new opportunity for the vaccine will be for its use in males. (Merck claims: The vaccine could help prevent males from contracting Human Papilloma virus and spreading it to females through sexual contact.) Merck was on track to seek approval for use in males by the end of 2008 and of course now they have approval. And how many of the deaths and other injuries to young boys and men will go under-reported while MERCK profits?

Gardasil was never tested for cancer causing agents or proof of cancer prevention. It still has not been tested or proven to prevent cervical cancer or any of the other afflictions it claims to prevent. They just “think” it might.

In the interim, Merck’s sales of Gardasil have plummeted beginning back in 2007. Merck claims the reason was that women and girls forgot to go back for the second and third shots.

“We have put in place substantial reminder programs that allow them to improve the ability to remember to go back to the second and third dose. So, we’re doing it by mail, we’re doing it by e-mail, we’re doing it by text messages, and a variety of different technologies to be able to make sure [that] they get to their second, and third doses.”

Only they didn’t come back. Many who received the first shots suffered from partial paralysis, seizures, fevers, muscle spasms and a host of other symptoms. Although every effort was made by Merck and the CDC to squash or minimalize any adverse event reporting, the stories leaked out and the news wasn’t good. The CDC as of 2010 had posted these responses to Gardasil among hundreds of adverse events:

Examples:

“Pt had unwitnessed seizure on 5/21/09. H/O probable seizure activity in the past 6 wks. After seizure, pt has had complaint of headache, dizziness, weakness, balance difficulty. 7/6/09 MR received for DOS 5/21-24/2009 with D/C DX: Seizure. Headache. Pt presented to ER after episode of unresponsiveness with limb flexion, staring, and fall. Disoriented with slurred speech, inappropriate affect, weakness, tiredness and severe H/A after. Recent episodes of involuntary fluttering of R hand. Started on Depakote.

(Depakote is a psychotropic drug used for bi-polar disorder)

Body aches, fatigue, blisters inside mouth, swollen glands, sores on lips and gums, swollen lips were also reported in many cases.”

The VAER report (Vaccine Adverse Event Report) is populated with reports of seizures, fainting, involuntary flailing of limbs, rashes, fevers, paralysis, vomiting, muscle contractions, ringing in the ears, blurred vision, and many other symptoms which appeared immediately after the first injection of Gardasil. It will be years before we know the long term and most likely devastating effects of this killer vaccine.

Gardasil contains extremely high levels of aluminum and polysorbate 80, a known cause of sterility in lab tests on mice, and also known to cause sterility in humans. High levels of other neurotoxic chemicals and the presence of thimerisol, a derivitive of mercury is said to be present although MERCK continues to deny that allegation.

Thanks to the Vaccine Liability Fund, funded in whole by US taxpayers, MERCK will never be held responsible or liable for the deaths and injuries they have caused and instead will simply add up the billions in profits while taxpayers foot the bill for the damages.

Cynthia Janek wrote an article in 2006 for the New American called “FDA and HPV….when did they know?….(follow up). Janek’s research revealed:

“ …the FDA knew back in 2003 that a HPV is not the actual cause of cervical cancer. The actual cause is a ‘persistent HPV infection that may act as a tumor promoter in cancer induction.’”

“What we have here is proof that there is scientific evidence that has been published in the past 15 years that states that HPV infection does not bear a direct relationship to the forming of cervical cancer. It also tells us that HPV, if allowed to will be taken care of by our own body’s natural processes. . .“most infections are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer.” With this being said, why do we need Gardasil when our own body is more than capable of eradicating HPV?

What we need is a government policy to assist women with the cost of getting follow-up tests when persistent HPV infection is present. This would make more sense and our government would save so much money on these types of programs instead of $360 each for the Gardasil vaccination.” MERCK applied to the FDA for approval of the vaccine to be used on older women.”

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As MERCK can produce not one independent test trial that proves the link between HPV and cervical cancer, and has even less evidence that Gardasil in fact will prevent any form of cervical cancer, one might think the FDA would have no hesitation in denying access to the market for this lethal vaccine. Oh! We could only dream! The FDA, noted for its funding by the same companies who seek their approval, was dragging its feet, but gave its approval of the extended vaccine in 2010.

As the FDA states with regards to many pharmaceuticals, death is an acceptable side affect. Acceptable to whom? MERCK? Now that the male version of the vaccine is on the market, I believe all males at MERCK and followed by everyone at the FDA should receive the initial doses. We should vaccinate all their children too…….we don’t need successive generations of genocidal monsters.

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/janak/071220


35 posted on 09/13/2011 1:32:36 PM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: Buckeye McFrog
-- Also very interesting that Merck suspended their lobbying campaign once Perry decided he had designs on the White House. --

The timeline has Merck shifting gears on that front, years ago.

Merck Suspends Lobbying for Vaccine - February 21, 2007

36 posted on 09/13/2011 1:32:40 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: beandog
-- Also, if it's such a super idea, why now is Perry apologizing for it? --

The only thing he is apologizing for, as far as I know, is enacting the requirement via EO. Again, AFAIK, he still believes the HPV vaccine should be mandatory, by government action.

37 posted on 09/13/2011 1:35:46 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

2007 is also when they first began getting reports that Gardasil had an unexpectedly high incidence of complications. Did Perry get the memo?


38 posted on 09/13/2011 1:37:21 PM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Chicken Pox can most certainly be fatal if contracted later in life. Far from never having killed anyone - Chicken Pox can indeed kill.


39 posted on 09/13/2011 1:42:20 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Have you ever heard of Shingles? do you know that if you have had chicken Pox you are susceptible to Shingles in later life when you are most vulnerable ? Do you know that Shingles can cause blindness,heart,lung,liver and kidney issues,on top of the horrific nerve pain and disability, and that the vaccine for shingles is in very short supply and unavailable in many areas.

I understand that the manufacturer of the Vaccine has stopped distributing. I am wondering if this entire system is corrupted, and it is just the tip of the Iceberg.

I am starting to get very pissed about this mess that Perry had caused,and still stands up and acts like it was not pay to play.

40 posted on 09/13/2011 1:44:53 PM PDT by samantha (Sarah is our TEAple. candidate for America the Beautiful...)
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