HPV vaccines and cancer prevention, science versus activism

February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Trust me?

Lucija Tomljenovic, Judy Wilyman, Eva Vanamee, Toni Bark and Christopher A Shaw Infectious Agents and Cancer 2013, 8:6 doi:10.1186/1750-9378-8-6 Published: 1 February 2013 Abstract (provisional) The rationale behind current worldwide human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination programs starts from two basic premises, 1) that HPV vaccines will prevent cervical cancers and save lives and, 2) have no risk of serious side effects. Therefore, efforts [...]

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Only trusted research will quell vaccine fears

March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Michael Framson MY VIEW • Parents, others worry that the next bad drug is being used now. Peter Latham once said, “Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.” For just a moment, can all those in and out of medicine who [...]

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The Research Works Act: a damaging threat to science

January 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Lancet, Volume 379, Issue 9813, Page 288, 28 January 2012 (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60125-1 “Academic publishers have become the enemies of science.” So wrote Dr Mike Taylor, a scientist at the UK’s University of Bristol. He, and many scientists like him, are angry that publishers are supporting the Research Works Act  (RWA), a controversial Bill before the US Congress. The [...]

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Vaccination Causes Autism – Say US Government & Merck’s Director of Vaccines

December 17, 2011 By 1 Comment

From ChildHealthSafety A New Scientist article 29 June 2010 by Jim Giles states:- We still do not know what causes autism.“ Desperate measures: The lure of an autism cure That is not correct. Here we set out four ways autistic conditions are caused and confirmed by statements from the current President of pharmaceutical giant Merck’s Vaccines Division, [...]

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JAMA & Cochrane Tacitly Admit Evidence-Based Medicine Nonexistent

October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Gaia Health The prestigiousJournal of the American Medical Association and the Cochrane Collaboration have jointly and officially concluded, albeit tacitly, that evidence-based medicine does not generally exist. To counter that lack, they are suggesting voluntary changes in how medical studies are reported. JAMA’s article on the subject, “A Model for Dissemination and Independent Analysis of Industry Data “, starts [...]

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How to fix peer review

October 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By David Caplan, PhD Despite its importance as the ultimate gatekeeper of scientific publication and funding, peer review is known to engender bias, incompetence, excessive expense, ineffectiveness, and corruption. A surfeit of publications has documented the deficiencies of this system.[1-4] In September, the fifth in a series of international congresses concerned with how peer review [...]

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THE HPV VACCINE MYSTERIES – MUST READ

September 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Janine Roberts WHY IS A NOBEL AWARD BEING GIVEN FOR THIS ON DECEMBER 10TH? There are two licensed HPV vaccines in the world. Merck makes Gardasil. It contains proteins said to come originally from four different types of HPV. By early 2008 over 10 million doses had been distributed, three-quarters of these in the USA. It [...]

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Addressing The Vaccine Confidence Gap: More Research Needed Globally On Local Factors Influencing Public Trust In Vaccines

June 11, 2011 By 2 Comments

Source:  Medical News Today/The Lancet In the fifth and final paper in the Series, Dr Heidi J Larson (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) and colleagues analyse the complex range of factors that are causing loss of public confidence in vaccines: the so-called vaccine confidence gap. The authors say: “The vaccine community demands [...]

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Universities 'should trade in morals not profits'

June 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Yuko Narushima UNIVERSITIES need to reclaim a moral purpose to distinguish themselves from  other businesses, the vice-chancellor of Macquarie University says. In an article published in Professional Educator today, Steven  Schwartz says universities are losing sight of their ethical function in their  desire to turn a profit. ”The purpose of university research was the [...]

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Vaccines and autism: a new scientific review

April 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News investigative journalist For all those who’ve declared the autism-vaccine debate over – a new scientific review begs to differ. It considers a host of peer-reviewed, published theories that show possible connections between vaccines and autism.   The article in the Journal of Immunotoxicology is entitled “Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes–A review.” [...]

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