Maybe they just had a better diet, got a lower dose of virus, etc. Also, biology is inherantly variable. Personally, I would not care to rely on the role that genetics may have to save my kids from smallpox or polio, I far prefer the vaccine.

The commercials are motivating, children skipping rope, playing, having fun, and it reminds you that getting your daughter a shot will save her life and make you a hero. I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials for Gardasil. I would get a shot of that myself if it weren’t for a few things that the commercials don’t tell you.

First let’s start with what Gardasil is supposed to do. It’s supposed to protect women from an infection of HPV or Human Papilloma Virus. It doesn’t keep you from getting it or coming in contact with it, it helps to stimulate the body to kill the virus off before it can harm you. This virus is so common that half of adults have HPV at some point in their lives. That’s right-HALF. To make this stat more real, you or your spouse has very likely had HPV at at some point in life.

As you can see it is very common, but the good news is as many as 90% of those infected with this virus clear the infection within 6 months or less. Many people never even know they were exposed in the first place. You see our bodies have a strong and intelligent immune system, and it kills the virus before it can harm you.

Now I have a very simple question, What do we need the vaccine for? A vaccine, like Gardasil, "tricks" the body into thinking its infected, thus creating an immune response to create antibodies to fight an infection of HPV . It doesn’t keep us from being exposed to it, we just have antibodies to fight it. Now half of you reading this will or have had exposure to HPV and your body has or will create the antibodies to destroy the virus naturally and you’ll go on with life. Where exactly is the need?

I suppose you could ask "where’s the harm" and get one anyway, but the truth is we really don’t know what the harm is, or what the benefit is either for that matter. With so many people having HPV at some point it’s not really a suprise that a lot of people with cervical cancer have had an HPV infection. But for the sake of argument we’ll assume HPV is the cause of cervical cancer.

Cervical cancer affects woman who are between the ages of 40 and 55. Usually someone is infected in their late teens or in their 20's with HPV. Then 20+ years later they develop cervical cancer. Basically 20 or more years passes before cancer is the issue. This study that got Gardasil’s approval was done on 9-26 year old’s and lasted a grand total of FOUR years.

How can anyone tell in 4 years how effective a vaccine will be against something that takes 20 or more years to develop?

I will tell you that the reported effectiveness during that trial was astounding. They had 100% effectiveness. 100%, can you believe that, they don’t even advertise that because they know vaccines can never be 100% effective. In fact just 70% or 80% is considered to be an outstanding rate of effectiveness.

Before you get too excited about the 100% effectiveness you should know a few more things about this 4 year study. About 21,000 people were involved, 9-26 year old females and incredibly, 9-15 year old boys were also involved. I’m pretty sure they’ll never have any problems with their cervix. Anyway, of those 21,000 people they found ZERO cases of cervical cancer after 4 years, in both the vaccinated AND the unvaccinated group.

Yes you read that correctly, ZERO cases in the vaccinated group and ZERO cases in the unvaccinated group. Its easy to explain, you wouldn’t expect to find any cases of cervical cancer in the groups they studied anyway. Sure it can happen, but those cases are very, very rare, less than one case per every 100,000 people, they only studied 21 thousand or so.

How anyone, in good concsience, can declare something effective, when the study to prove it is so severely flawed.

Not only is there absolutely zero evidence that this vaccine will put your daughter in the "one less" group 20+ years from now or not, but we haven’t gotten into the side effects. Now most of the side effects reported from this vaccine were relatively mild, but they also have no idea what the Amorphous Aluminum Hydroxyphosphate Sulfate will do to a 9 year old 20 years from now either.

　

There is more than just a casual link between aluminum and a whole host of chronic diseases. Aluminum is implicated in many Cancers itself, yet here it is a part of this new supposed cancer vaccine, does that make sense? Not only does aluminum have ties to cancer, but also chronic neurologic diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lou Gehrig’s disease all have shown links to aluminum in the body. Again those things take a long time to develop. We have no way of knowing what kinds of effects these shots will have 20 years from now.

Now knowing everything, how the effectiveness was determined, knowing that unvaccinated had the same rate of cancer as the vaccinated group, knowing that almost all of us that come in contact with HPV will rid our bodies of it naturally anyway, and you still want to vaccinate against it, feel free. It’s your choice.

What makes me most angry about this new marketing campaign is that its aimed right at your emotions and your hearts in an attempt to get this vaccine mandated to all young girls. There are still gigantic question marks on its effectiveness and it’s safety. Five years ago, they didn’t have any commercials on tv about smoking, diets low in fruits, or birth control pills increasing your risks of cervical cancer, which they do, but now they have a vaguely studied vaccine that can generate them billions of dollars, you’ll hear about it every time you turn on the TV. Its’ 120 bucks a shot, given three times for all school aged females in America. You do the math. Its on the agenda in over 30 states to Mandate yet another vaccine to children.

We used to get a few shots before going into school, now newborns are bombarded with almost 40 shots, all of these contain metals like aluminum, formaldehyde, some still contain mercury (even though they’re not supposed to make them with it anymore they get exemptions to use it) and other toxic substances. Whether or not all these things have any effect on the autism rates that have jumped from 1 in 10,000 in 1992 to 1 in 152 by 2005, I can’t tell you yes or no.

I can tell you we need to be careful what we’re subjecting our kids to. Mandating another vaccine with questionable validity is not a step in the right direction. Many kids can withstand vaccinations with no apparent or immediate problems, but it only takes one shot for severe brain damage to occur. One shot for encephalopathy, spastic clonus, paraplegia, seizures, retardation, or blindness.

I’m not trying to downplay cervical cancer, or HPV. Cancer of any kind is devastating to everyone involved. I’m all for finding ways to treat and prevent it from ever happening. I’m not for using our children as a mass social experiment to see how it turns out 20 years from now.

Should we really be mandating a vaccine of more than questionable effectiveness and safety?

Here's a link to the recent NYTimes article commenting on its fast rise from unknown to universal endorsement.

... Many of you are very strongly anti-vaccination, and will not see the value of preventing infectious diseases. ...