S.A.N.E Vax, INC Supports Bachmann Gardasil/Mental Retardation Charge

Monday, 19 September 2011 As of June 2011 there have been 68 deaths related to the HPV Gardasil vaccine were reported to VAERS. At the Republican Presidential Candidate debate, Michele Bachmann stepped on a hornet's nest when she strongly criticized Rick Perry for issuing an Executive Order mandating Texas school girls to be vaccinated with Merck's HPV vaccine, Gardasil.

Controversy has swirled around this vaccine since Merck's aggressive unethical marketing tactics were uncovered in 2007. These included pay offs to public officials. See: Merck Lobbies States to MANDATE cervical-cancer vaccine forschoolgirls and Merck Payola Pays Off: Texas Governor Orders STD Vaccine for ALL girls

Bachmann called Perry's use of the Executive Order an abuse of his executive power.

Indeed, mandatory vaccination against HPV is unsupportable HPV is not communicable in a school setting--it is communicated only by sexual contact. The condition Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is present in 50% of the sexually active population. HPV does NOT automatically develop into cancer in the overwhelming majority of the population. HPV is mostly benign--no treatment needed.

Furthermore, early detection of pre-cancerous cervical cells is readily accomplished by routine PAP smears--which sexually active women in the US routinely have. And pre-cancerous cervical condition is eminently treatable.

Therefore, cervical cancer does not pose a major danger for all children--therefore, the risk from the vaccine itself is not justifiable.

Indeed, the Texas legislature had overruled (then) Governor Perry's Executive Order because it was unsupportable.

Bachmann correctly noted that the HPV vaccine poses serious risks of harm: As of June 22, 2011 there have been a total 68 deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) related to Gardasil.

As of June 22, 2011, approximately 35 million doses of Gardasil® were distributed in the U.S. and VAERS received a total of 18,727 of which 8% were deemed serious.

The following HPV-linked injuries have been reported to VAERS (estimated at 1% to 10% of injuries linked to vaccines)

Bachmann stated that Merck “made millions of dollars because of this mandate;” and that Governor Perry had received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Merck. She also noted that “the governor’s former chief of staff was the chief lobbyist for this drug company.” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63329.html#ixzz1YPZbncRy

First among the hornets to attack Bachmann is none other than bioethicist Art Caplan who came to Rick Perry's and Merck's defense.

Ironically, when Rick Perry entered the race for Republican Presidential candidate, on August 15, 2011, he acknowledged in an Iowa radio call-in show his mistake in issuing that Gardasil Executive Order: "I readily stand up and say I made a mistake on that. "

Art Caplan is the director of the Bioethics Center at the University of Pennsylvania, which has beenn criticized for its copious pharmaceutical industry funding. Oblivious to the reports of vaccine-related encephalitis, cognitive disorder, and more, Caplan challenged Bachmann with a $10,000 bet to prove her claim that the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer caused mental retardation.

Mental retardation can be caused by encephalitis, an infection involving inflammation of the brain as well as autoimmune inflammatory diseases involving the central nervous system.

Below, the organization SANE challenges Art Caplan with peer-reviewed published reports of harm from the HPV vaccine.

Subject: Challenge Issued to Republican Presidential Candidate, Michelle Bachmann

On behalf of the parents of a group of neurologically injured teenage girls after HPV vaccination, we feel obligated to question your ‘bio’-ethics as you challenge Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann with a $10,000 bet to prove a claim that a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer caused mental retardation. We represent many parents of teenage girls who have suffered a variety of central nervous system (CNS) dysfunctions, including various degrees of mental ‘retardation’ (impairment) as a sequelae of Gardasil® vaccination injuries. It is hard to believe that as bioethicist you openly instigate violation of the HIPAA law.

Do you accept the standard medical teaching that mental retardation may be the sequelae of an inflammatory pathology of the brain, namely encephalitis, in the surviving patients1? We do. If you do not, please cite some peer-reviewed, published studies to support your argument.

The SANE Vax team has found seven reports published in various peer-reviewed medical journals, documenting HPV vaccination as the most likely cause of a hitherto poorly understood and probably autoimmune-based inflammatory disease involving the central nervous system, including various parts of the brain 2-8.

The authors, reviewers and editors of these articles all felt that a highly unusual CNS pathology following Gardasil® vaccination needs to be brought to the attention of the world’s medical community because the inflammatory pathology and its pathogenesis cannot be easily explained; it is apparently autoimmune-based.

This letter is to inform you that SANE Vax Inc., representing parents whose daughters have been injured by the Gardasil® vaccination, have reported to the FDA that the currently marketed Gardasil® is probably 100% contaminated by recombinant HPV DNA firmly bound to amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate adjuvant9.

This HPV DNA/aluminum complex may mediate an immunotoxic reaction leading to some of the inflammatory neurodegenerative disorders observed in the Gardasil® victims, similar to the mechanism observed in experimental animals10.

We suggest you visit the CDC HPV Vaccine VAERS Reports site to see the prevalence of various sequelae after the patients recovered from the acute phase of CNS injuries.

Now, SANE Vax Inc. challenges you, Dr. Caplan. Prove the vaccine Gardasil® has prevented a single case of cervical cancer. We have not found such a case in the world literature, or in the published clinical trial materials. The endpoints used for evaluating the efficacy of Gardasil® were largely self-reversible precancerous changes, not true cancer as defined in any pathology textbooks.

At least two proven invasive cervical cancers developed shortly after HPV vaccination have been reported in medical literature. According to the report, one of the young patients had received a full course of HPV vaccination when she was enrolled in a clinical trial for which the subjects must be pre-screened to be cytology-negative before enrollment. The HPV-found in her cancer was HPV-3111, subsequently recognized as a vaccine-relevant genotype due to “cross reaction” and “cross protection”.

How would you, Dr. Caplan, justify the vaccination from the standpoint of a bioethicist when the vaccine may have actually accelerated an undetectable precancerous change associated with a vaccine-relevant HPV to a clinical invasive cancer with lymphatic invasion?

Signed on behalf of the Board of Directors, SANE Vax Inc. Leslie Carol Botha, Vice President of Public Relations Janny Stokvis, Vice President of Research Rosemary Mathis, Vice President of Victim Support Freda Birrell, Secretary Linda Thompson, Treasurer

Nice try, but since your post mentioned the 68 dead people at least two times, it’s clear that was your focus, until I told you that nobody died.

I’d be concerned if government was forcing it, but it isn’t, it wasn’t, and it never was going to. It was encouraging it, in this case by putting it on the required list, while leaving an opt-out for parents who cared.

Other states like Alaska encouraged it by advertising it on the government web site, recommending people take it, and offering it for free under a federal tax-payer funded program.

It’s a vaccine with relatively few side effects which will, if given universally, wipe out the cause of a good number of deaths each year. I can see why people are encouraging it.

Suppose two parents had a kid with a congenital heart defect. An operation might save his life. But the parents refuse the operation, so the kid is guaranteed to die. The operation is virtually 100% effective.

Would you support goverment stepping in and forcing the kid to have the operation, or do you believe the parents have an absolute right to decide what happens to their kid.

Does your answer change if I tell you the operation is 20% effective? or 5%?

If you support government stepping in to save the life of a child from parents who decide not to protect them, how do you distinguish that from parents not giving a life-saving vaccine? Is it different simply because the kids aren’t guaranteed to die without the vaccine, while in my example they were guaranteed to die?

What if there were 100 kids in a room. A man in the room has promised to kill 1 of the kids. The government can remove the kids from the room, and ensure that none of them die.

But 10 of the parents refuse to let the government take their kids out of the room. We know that 1 kid will die, but we don’t know if it is one of those 10 kids. It could be that none of them were the one that was picked to die. Now should we prohibit government action?

“Nice try, but since your post mentioned the 68 dead people at least two times, it’s clear that was your focus, until I told you that nobody died.”

You can TELL other people anything you want to TELL them.

We seem to be entrenching behind a statement from the CDC that they can’t Prove that Gardasil was the actual cause of death, therefore, neither does their statement Prove that it Wasn’t.

The CDC’s statement amounts to “Dunno” and “Dunno” Proves zero either way. We also seem to be drawing the dividing line at the issue of Death. The non-lethal adverse reactions suffered by 11-12 yr old girls are being ignored here. Where’s the cut off? What types of damage Are acceptable?

From the same Heavenly Budgeted CDC which gives us their “Dunno”
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccines/HPV/HPVArchived.html

we find Them, And their Heavenly Budget, exactly as expected. Check the Dates on Their “Dunnos”, from when I accessed their page Today at 1:45pm.

Page last reviewed: March 10, 2010
Page last updated: February 7, 2011

That CDC argument clincher (as of 8 MONTHS AGO) was 20 reported Deaths, not 68.

So we’re left with another 48 reported Deaths in the last 8 months, but causation is not established beyond “Dunno”. What would the total be over the next 8 months, or 8 years? What would the total be if Gardasil had been on the market for the last 20 years? “Dunno”, and Wouldn’t know until After State Attorney Generals had sued the makers for damaging their own state Medicaid programs, and dragged all kinds of internal Company Documents from those makers into Court and the public record. And involving those State AGs takes Years, sometimes 10-15 years.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccines/HPV/jama.html

“Of the 12,424 reports of adverse events, 772 (6% of all reports) described serious adverse events, including 32 reports of deaths.
The 32 death reports were reviewed and there was no common pattern to the deaths that would suggest they were caused by the vaccine. In cases where there was an autopsy, death certificate, or medical records, the cause of death could be explained by factors other than the vaccine. Some causes of death determined to date include diabetes, viral illness, illicit drug use, and heart failure.”

That says that the Cause of death Could be explained by other factors, NOT that it Wasn’t caused by the vaccine, (by itself or in combination with other factors) while telling us that the vaccine inflicts 6% Serious Adverse Reactions. But we’re OK with that? 6 out of every 100 11-12 yr old kids having a Serious AER?

So, the CDC has All the answers we’d Ever need because they Are the Unelected and unaccountable short of convening a Congressional Investigation (which will issue yet Another toothless, do nothing report) Government Bureaucrats (who as everyone at FR Knows, are Incapable of screwing up) we allow to make potentially Lethal (or 6% CDC Admitted, Seriously Negative, Life Impacting) decisions for ourselves and our children, and everybody Else’s 11-12 yr old children.

JAMA: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/302/7/795.full.pdf+html

“HPV is the most prevalent sexually transmitted infection, with an estimated 79% infection rate over a lifetime5,6 The virus does not appear to be very harmful because almost all HPV infections are cleared by the immune system.7,8 In a few women, infection persists and some women may develop precancerous cervical lesions and eventually cervical cancer. It is currently impossible to predict in which women this will occur and why. Likewise, it is impossible to predict exactly what effect vaccination of young girls and women will have on the incidence of cervical cancer 20 to 40 years from now.”

79% estimated lifetime infection rate, does not appear to be very harmful, cleared by immune system, and JAMA “Dunno” about 40 years down the road.

Life is full of risks. Yes, it is. Risk is an act of increasing “Dunno”, in This instance (Perry’s EO) through Government Fiat. 6 kids out of every 100. People were allowed to “opt out”? Tell me; Were those people informed at the time they were allowed to “opt out” of the 6% Serious Adverse Reaction Factor?

Since the CDC argument devolves into they “Dunno”, “Go To” Gorski is working for a University with a financial stake in positive outcomes, and Hope & Change for a cervical cancer free nation of 11-12 yr olds in trade for 6 out of every 100 of those kids being Seriously, Negatively Impacted, (based on another Financially Conflicted Government Fiat/EO) remains a Sewer of Ethical Dubiety, I’ll restate my open and principled defiance to allowing Anyone to force Any foreign substance into Anyone of Any age, let alone 11-12 yr old children.

I’m understanding that we will probably remain of opposing opinions on this issue, and therefore must agree to disagree while scratching my own head wondering What it is you’re so vociferously attached to in defending the application of Government Force (or misdirection, which is fraud) to Adversely, Negatively, Physically and Emotionally Harm 6 out of every 100 kids, even if None of them were actually Killed by the process: which conclusion has Not been Proven by the CDC with their definitive “Dunno”.

Returning to: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccines/HPV/jama.html

“An adverse event is considered serious if it is life threatening, or results in death, permanent disability, abnormal conditions at birth, hospitalization or prolonged hospitalization.”

6 out of every 100.

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