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In reply to the discussion: Lead investigator for HPV vaccines "comes clean so she can sleep at night." [View all]pnwmom
(108,952 posts)24. The lead investigator on the Gardasil vaccine might actually know something about this.
For one thing, she points out that it has NEVER been studied on children under the age of 15, yet it is being marketed to children as young as 9.
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Lead investigator for HPV vaccines "comes clean so she can sleep at night." [View all]
pnwmom
Jul 2013
OP
The OP makes a claim that those side effects are more dangerous than cervical cancer.
jeff47
Jul 2013
#12
Need to measure the danger of the vaccine vs. the disease to figure out if it's "more dangerous"
jeff47
Jul 2013
#15
When a researcher wants funding for a particular vaccine or drug, we should make sure that
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#36
I think it adds weight to the skeptics' argument when the lead investigator comes out on their side.
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#13
Apparently she was saying what her employers wanted her to say. Now she's not. n/t
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#40
Actually, that was my mistake. She didn't receive money from them for that work. n/t
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#88
No, but as the lead researcher in Phase 2 and 3 research on those vaccines, she is better positioned
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#30
The other research shows that the number of HPV cases caused by those strains has decreased.
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#45
Sorry, but you're still avoiding the issue of cancer deaths rather than HPV cases.
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#68
But she's been collecting much of the data that other people have been relying on to analyze. n/t
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#35
The lead investigator on the Gardasil vaccine might actually know something about this.
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#24
The person speaking out was a lead researcher in the development of the vaccines.
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#52
sorry, but the actual scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports the efficacy and safety of this
cali
Jul 2013
#56
Actually, human beings have been dying from preventable illnesses for thousands of years.
Gravitycollapse
Jul 2013
#53
Where is the evidence that it actually saves lives -- not just reduces the number of cases
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#74
I'm not an anti-vaxxer. Name calling doesn't impress anyone but other name callers, cali.
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#63
The vast majority of girls and women clear HPV from their bodies after a couple years
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#65
I'm so very sorry this happened to you. But the vaccine covers only 4 of the 40 HPV strains
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#90