Abstinence offers 100% protection against the same diseases. Why isn’t this a option to parents of six-year old? Merck, like all other drug companies are not obliged to publish negative or adverse events of a given clinical trial. They can keep tweaking the statistics and design of the study to get the results they want. “Extensive clinical studies” are not what they seem.
“Abstinence offers 100% protection against the same diseases”
Exactly.
“They can keep tweaking the statistics and design of the study to get the results they want.”
This point was well illustrated in the CDC’s 2000 Simpsonwood conference (on mercury in vaccines) minutes.