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In reply to the discussion: Lead investigator for HPV vaccines "comes clean so she can sleep at night." [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)26. Is she an immunologist or an epidemiologist?
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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