Saturday, June 21, 2014

Gardasil Kills 1 out of 912. True or False?

GARDASIL® is a vaccine manufactured by MERCK which is used to prevent certain strains of HPV (human paploma virus), a virus which has infected 79 million Americans, with 14 million new cases per year, and is a major cause of cervical cancer (70%), as well as several other cancers. Gardasil was approved in the U.S. in 2008 and has been approved for use in 120 other countries.

As with all vaccines, there seems to be an ever increasing fear of them and people love to spread dramatic and scary memes across the interworlds to "prove" the evils of the anti-vax flavor of the month. The fight against Gardasil began immediately, but I'd like to take the time to address a specific claim.



The "Common Sense Show" and "Liberty Beacon" websites have "fact" laden articles about the dangers of Gardasil and attack the evil pharmaceutical industry for making money off the corpses of your slaughtered daughters. Most of the outrage seems to stem from page 8 of the Gardasil product information pamphlet. And their conclusion is that the vaccine kills 1 out of every 912 patients.

So, let's look at page 8.

The results of clinical trials reported looked at 29,323 patients. Of those, 15,706 were actually given the vaccine, 13,023 were given a control, and 594 were given a saline (salt water) placebo. The control was amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate (AAHS), which is a commonly given drug to enhance immune activity.

Of the 258 "adverse effects" listed, 128 (0.8%) were from those given the vaccine and 130 (1%) came from those given the control. Now, the definition of "adverse effects" is anything from a simple rash or headache, all the way up to infection and death. During clinical trials the entire health of the patients are looked at and they do not make the distinction between specifically proven connection and non-proven, because these particular studies aren't for that determination. They only allow you to see if there is a statistical likelihood of connection.

The most common adverse effect for those given the vaccine was appendicitis, with 5 cases or 0.03% of the total trial population.

For the deaths, there were 40 reported. Out of 15,706 people given the actual vaccine, 21 died or 0.1%. However, 38% of those deaths were NOT caused by the vaccine. As I said, they must report all injuries & deaths during these studies including: 5 from car crashes, 2 from suicide, and 1 from somebody getting shot. So really, the death rate that conceivably could be related to Gardasil (but not proven to be) was 0.08% - or 1 out of every 1,208.  For context, the overall death rate for the United States is 8 per 1,000! Cancer death rates tend to be far higher.

Plus, of the remaining 13 non-accident/self-inflicted deaths, five were from other types of cancers, 1 occurred after a surgery, and 1 died from some kind of chemical poisoning.

Conclusion

I cannot stress this enough, based on this report alone you can't make a determination that the vaccine caused the deaths. Which, makes the 1 in 912 figure completely out of context and false for the purposes of the claim that Gardasil caused these deaths. I'm also not sure where the 1 in 912 figure comes from: as noted, the death rate for those given the vaccine (21 out of 15,706) is 1 out of 1,208, and the death rate for the whole trial (40 out of 29,323) equals 1 in 1,396.

As I discussed in my flu vaccine entry, there is no such thing as a perfectly safe drug, be it man-made or naturally growing herbs. By definition, a drug/medication is any substance which alters the internal chemistry of the body to elicit a healthy outcome. There is no way to ensure a healthy outcome. It all boils down to risk vs. benefit. Each year, 225,000 women die from cervical cancer and a further 470,000 will develop the disease. Even in the United States, the fiver-year survivability rate is 68%, meaning you still have a 32% chance of dying.

You tell me which is the greater risk?

Regardless, I'm not here to debate anything other than the specific claim that Gardasil kills 1 out of every 912 people. The judgement is a resounding FALSE.  


Jacob Bogle, 6/21/14
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11 comments:

  1. Very nice piece. I plan to quote from it liberally, with a rinse and repeat upon each new encounter with HPV hysteria.

    A paraphrased NB: To elicit is to give rise to, to draw out, or to evoke. Illicit means illegal, unlawful or not permitted. The words are ~not quite~ homophones, but they sound similar enough to elicit occasional confusion.

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  2. Let's not bother ourselves with the facts, right? Just in case there is someone out there that loves truth and will seek it like gold and silver, this is for you:

    Real Life Stories From Vaccine Injured Girls: http://sanevax.org/

    Gardasil Vaccine: One More Girl Dead: http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/gardasil-vaccine-one-more-girl-dead/

    Young woman's ovaries destroyed by Gardasil: Merck 'forgot to research' effects of vaccine on female reproduction: http://www.naturalnews.com/041512_Gardasil_ovary_destruction_HPV_vaccine.html#ixzz2vlIUsaqt

    Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gardasil-researcher-speaks-out/

    Does Gardasil Actually Increase Your Risk of Cervical Cancer? http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/20/does-gardasil-actually-increase-your-risk-of-cervical-cancer.aspx

    Gardasil Destroys Girl’s Ovaries: Research on Ovaries Never Considered: http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/07/22/gardasil-destroys-girls-ovaries-research-on-ovaries-never-considered-10497/

    Merck Researcher Admits: Gardasil Guards Against Almost Nothing: http://www.pop.org/content/gardasil-guards-against-almost-nothing-1671

    Merck’s Former Doctor Predicts that Gardasil will Become the Greatest Medical Scandal of All Time: http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mercks-former-doctor-predicts-that-gardasil-will-become-the-greatest-medical-scandal-of-all-time/

    Lead Gardasil Vaccine Creator Confesses to Clear Conscience: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/lead-gardasil-vaccine-creator-confesses-to-clear-conscience_072013#sthash.xHO9IOV2.dpuf

    Oncology Dietitian Exposes Fraud in CDC’s HPV Vaccine Effectiveness Study: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/16/hpv-vaccine-effectiveness.aspx

    HPV Gardasil Vaccine Proves Lethal - 140 Girls have now Died VIDEO LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pTUtP0K4E4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

    Gardasil deceptions hide true numbers of deaths and injuries: http://www.tbyil.com/Gardasil_Deception.htm

    US government spending $500k to push HPV vaccine that keeps killing young women: http://www.naturalnews.com/041429_Gardasil_HPV_vaccines_government_spending.html#ixzz2vlIfgGyL

    Japan withdraws support for HPV vaccines due to infertility side effects: http://www.naturalnews.com/041099_Gardasil_side_effect_Japan_infertility.html#ixzz2vlIw8kB1

    30 stunning facts they don't want you to know about Gardasil and HPV vaccines: http://www.naturalnews.com/037154_Gardasil_HPV_vaccines_scientific_facts.html#ixzz2vlJEt5GS

    HPV Vaccine Maker’s Study Proves Natural HPV Infection Beneficial, Not Deadly: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/hpv-vaccine-maker-s-study-shows-natural-hpv-infection-beneficial-not-deadly?utm_source=www.GreenMedInfo.com&utm_campaign=0d890fec9c-Greenmedinfo&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_193c8492fb-0d890fec9c-86796697

    Dr. Russell Blaylock exposes criminal fraud of Gardasil, HPV vaccinations: http://www.naturalnews.com/036874_Dr_Russell_Blaylock_Gardasil_HPV_vaccines.html#ixzz2vlJRJ754

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tells the Truth About the Vaccine Government Cover-Up
    Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLzdOFwd_xw
    Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-RG-mS2Vc

    The Truth About the Gardasil Vaccine by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh_Qb0B0QKg

    42% of Drug Reactions Are Vaccine Related, Groundbreaking Chinese Study Finds: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/42-drug-reactions-are-vaccine-related-groundbreaking-chinese-study-finds

    Silent Epidemic; The Untold Story of Vaccines Movie dire - A Gary Null Production FULL LENGTH VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1m3TjokVU4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

    Exposed: The Truth About Vaccines (Too Many Links to Count! This is one of the most comprehensive pages on the dangers of vaccines on the internet): http://tradeoutthishatewithlove.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/exposed-the-truth-about-vaccines/

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  3. This is a great article...but what it's missing is sources! Cited sources! It's not that I doubt any of this, but listing sources would give you more credibility.

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    1. And I don't agree with it but agree with you that it needs references or it's just as they accuse others of.....hearsay.

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  4. OOPS...I guess you did, as embedded links. So sorry.

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  5. Your stats regarding cervical cancer are misleading because you haven't taken age into consideration and therefore including older women rather than young women which the vaccine is directed at protecting. Are you really trying to tell us that young women die at the same rate as older women here ? It's very rere. Also having a controlled study in an Aluminium solution is a joke when we all know Aluminium is toxic and also one of the toxins which causes the immune system to react. The CDC haven'tveven tested how these chemicals react with one another and talk nonsence about them not crossing the blood brain barrier when some of them have been proven to allow others to cross it and anyway we are talking about injection not ingestion or inhalation. Injection is a lot more potent. There's a reason why heroine addicts inject rather than eat heroine. Of cource vaccine companies aren't concerned about safety when they have been immune from liability since a government vaccine court in America was set up in 1986 payout out compensation with tax payer money. Even a quick google search will show you that.

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