Thursday, 29 October 2009
Lead Gardasil Researcher Says the Drug Will Do Little To Reduce Cervical Cancer Rates
I'm pleased to be able to provide my readers with more science based medicine news. This one is a doozy.
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.
Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, made these remarks during an address at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia on Oct. 2-4. Although her talk was intended to promote the vaccine, participants said they came away convinced the vaccine should not be received.
“I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all,” said Joan Robinson, Assistant Editor at the Population Research Institute.
Dr. Harper began her remarks by explaining that 70 percent of all HPV infections resolve themselves without treatment within a year. Within two years, the number climbs to 90 percent. Of the remaining 10 percent of HPV infections, only half will develop into cervical cancer, which leaves little need for the vaccine.
She went on to surprise the audience by stating that the incidence of cervical cancer in the U.S. is already so low that “even if we get the vaccine and continue PAP screening, we will not lower the rate of cervical cancer in the US.”
Is it too much to ask the pharmaceutical companies to make safe vaccines and stop trying to foist unneeded vaccines on Americans and their children? Not according to the Pharma-shill spundits at Science Based Medicine Blog who just can't seem to wrap their medically myopic minds around the concept of Pharmaceutical and Medical researchers crafting studies so as to produce a corporate positive outcome. By the way, Albietz and crew still have not responded to my points about the people with allergies and squalene (paragraph 7)... gee do you think its because there are no studies? Maybe there should be?
I truly hope with this new information the parents of Texas litigate the hell out of the governor whose only motivation for forcing this vaccine on young girls was based solely on his getting lobby money from the manufacturers. Seriously you folks in Texas, do what that lady in Alaska did to Gov. Palin, keep taking the Tx. Governor to court until he resigns.
Fix the Damn Vaccines! Make them Safe!
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