“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”
– T.R. Pynchon (Gravity’s Rainbow)
October 7, 2008
Morgana, Tamsin [VC]
Regional Immunisation Leader
Communicable Disease Control
British Columbia, Canada
Ms. Morgana . . .
It’s come to my attention that you will be launching the HPV vaccine into the community. As one who has just been marketed to, courtesy of the HPV package being distributed by schools, I feel it’s only appropriate to reciprocate by sharing some observations and opinions with you.
A VCH (Vancouver Coastal Health) newsletter submission by you stated that the “HPV vaccine is a safe vaccine that is highly effective in preventing infection from four types of HPV that cause 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts.” [1] May I ask what your sources are? I can find no double-blinded studies (by disinterested third parties) in support of your position. Studies are ongoing (see below), and, apparently, the jury will be out until, at the very least, September 30/2009 (again, see below). It is, therefore, by definition, an unproven vaccine – an experiment. On children. Our children.
I’d like to bring your attention to the following quote: Read the rest of this entry »
