Reply #41: She says "Giving it to 11-year-olds is a great big public health experiment,"

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Here is more about what the researcher did say, and
a live link where the article is archived:

For months, Harper said, she's been trying to convince major television and print media to listen to her and tell the facts about the usefulness and effectiveness of this vaccine. "But no one will print it," she said.

According to Harper, the facts about the HPV vaccine are:

. It is not a cancer vaccine or cure. It is a prophylactic - preventative -vaccine for a virus that can cause cancer. "Merck has proven it has zero percent effectiveness for curing cancer," Harper said. "But it is a very, very good vaccine that prevents types of HPV responsible for half of the high-grade cervical lesions that cause about 70 percent of cervical cancers. For the U.S. what that means is the vaccine will prevent about half of high-grade precursors of cancer but half will still occur, so hundreds of thousands of women who are vaccinated with Gardasil and get yearly Pap testing will still get a high-grade dysplasia (cell abnormality).

http://www.kpcnews.com/articles/2007/03/14/online_features/hpv_vaccine/hpv01.txt

also at http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/03/hpv-vaccine-researcher-blasts-marketing.html