Sunday Express cancer jab story denied (anti-Gardisal story complete fiction)

I agreed with Gary Andrews, who described the story as "not just wrong, but dangerously misleading to a degree that goes beyond scary."

But it transpires that it was an even worse piece of journalism than we thought. The Guardian's bad science columnist Ben Goldacre has discovered that it was false in every respect because it rested on statements from a single expert, Diane Harper, who trenchantly denies all the quotes attributed to her.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/oct/10/sundayexpress-express-newspapers

it wasn't the I'm leary of all vaccines crowd that was trying to destroy the campaign to get girls vaccinated with Gardisal. It was the religious groups who insisted that if girls got the shot it would encourage them to have sex. That group is still out there, so we have to be careful about the information that is out there. If you are leary of all vaccines that is one thing but be careful you are not reading material put out there by the religious crowds that may be tainting the information.

comments, all of which are demonstrably TRUE, per the research.



"She went on to surprise the audience by stating that the incidence of cervical cancer in the U.S. is already so low that “even if we get the vaccine and continue PAP screening, we will not lower the rate of cervical cancer in the US.”

There will be no decrease in cervical cancer until at least 70 percent of the population is vaccinated, and even then, the decrease will be minimal.

Apparently, conventional treatment and preventative measures are already cutting the cervical cancer rate by four percent a year. At this rate, in 60 years, there will be a 91.4 percent decline just with current treatment. Even if 70 percent of women get the shot and required boosters over the same time period, which is highly unlikely, Harper says Gardasil still could not claim to do as much as traditional care is already doing.

Dr. Harper, who also serves as a consultant to the World Health Organization, further undercut the case for mass vaccination by saying that “four out of five women with cervical cancer are in developing countries.”

Ms. Robinson said she could not help but wonder, “If this is the case, then why vaccinate at all? But from the murmurs of the doctors in the audience, it was apparent that the same thought was occurring to them.”

However, at this point, Dr. Harper dropped an even bigger bombshell on the audience when she announced that, “There have been no efficacy trials in girls under 15 years.”"

Harper may have made a public speech about Gardasil, but this was claimed as "Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Express, Dr Diane Harper ...", and being about the vaccine being used in Britain - Cervarix. And notice how the Express headlined it: "JAB AS DEADLY AS THE CANCER ".

From Goldacre's piece:



The Express's 'reporting' was absolutely appalling. It really was full of misinformation and lies.

About the bad representation of science (mainly health related, but that's fairly broad - he's had a go at cosmetics companies for the meaningless twaddle in their marketing, for instance) by the media, 'alternative medicine', nutritionists, and drug companies.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/series/badscience

My doctor said it was a bullshit vaccine. I was stunned but he said that it the risk/reward ratio was not good.

like the Express.

Makes me wonder who's really behind the "falsified" story.

' because it rested on statements from a single expert, Diane Harper, who trenchantly denies all the quotes attributed to her. '

Koresh damn, I'm sick of anti-vax lies.