Posted on 09/20/2011 9:22:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two bioethics professors have said that they are willing to pay $11,000 for medical records that could prove that the story Rep. Michele Bachmann told about the toxicity of HPV vaccine, after Monday night's GOP presidential debate, is true.
Bachmann first raised the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine issue during the presidential debate, attacking Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who issued an executive order in 2007 mandating that girls get the HPV vaccine as part of a school immunization requirement. She questioned the state's authority to force "innocent little 12-year-old girls" to have a "government injection" that was "potentially dangerous."
The following day, she told NBC's "Today" show the story of a woman from Tampa, Florida, who approached her after the debate and said her daughter became "mentally retarded" after getting the Gardasil vaccine made by Merck.
Steven Miles, a bioethics professor at the University of Minnesota, is offering $1,000 if medical records of the woman from Bachmann's story can be produced for scrutiny by a medical professional. Following Miles' offer, his former boss from the University of Minnesota, Art Caplan, who is now director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, offered $10,000 for proof of the HPV vaccine victim, Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
"These types of messages in this climate have the capacity to do enormous public health harm," Miles said of why he made the offer. "The woman, assuming she exists, put this claim into the public domain and it's an extremely serious claim and it deserves to be analyzed."
Bachmann's comments on the vaccine's toxicity have drawn heavy criticism from medical professionals who fear the damage has already been done.
"Since the vaccine has been introduced (in 2006), more than 35 million doses have been administered, and it has an excellent safety record," Dr. O. Marion Burton, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a statement.
Bachmann repeated the story to several news outlets over the next 24 hours after the presidential debate, and sent a fundraising letter to supporters about the exchange she had with Perry on the debate stage. But when she was pressed by Fox News' Sean Hannity on his radio program about the story, Bachmann said she had "no idea" if it was true.
Don’t more people die from falling in the bathtub? I think Bachmann did a great dis-service to this country. I believe vacinations are important. I get my dog her rabbies shot every two years. I got my children every shot the law required and they are now healthy and strong parents. Geeze Louise, give me a break!
You are wrong here. There is such a thing as a “liberal gene”. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Scientists-May-Have-IDd-Liberal-Gene-105917218.html.
Scientific study proves it.
The 2006 population of women in the US per the census was 151,795,031.
Number of cervical cancer cases diagnosed in 2005 per the CDC was 11,999.
Therefore, 00.07904% of women were diagnosed with cervical cancer that year.
The number of deaths by cervical cancer in 2005 were 3,924.
Percentage of cervical cancer death incidence was 00.00258%.
The Gardasil complication rate is at least .375%.
The Gardasil death rate is .0125% .
You left some things out:
- If gardasil works, it’ll only protect against two forms of HPV that (supposedly) protect against 70% of cervical cancers, not all cervical cancer
- Gardasil will need boosters every 5 years. if a woman doesn’t get the boosters, she won’t be protected at all
- Merck admits that they don’t even know for sure that gardasil will work. HPV has a 15-20 year incubation period before it causes cancer. Merck only followed their test subjects for 1.5-3 years. (It was those subjects that showed a 17% reduction in HPV infections vs. controls - not the 70% that should’ve been had gardasil worked as well as promised)
Gardasil is NOT worth the risk and should NOT be mandatory.
“No it was because some people will look for any reason to attack a candidate they don’t like.”
For example, their hair style.
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