(NaturalNews) One of the key researchers involved in the clinical trials for both
Gardasil and
Cevarix cervical cancer vaccines has gone public with warnings about their safety and effectiveness. This highly unusual warning against these vaccines by one of Big Pharma's own researchers surfaced in an exclusive interview with the
Sunday Express in the UK over the last few days. There, Dr. Diane Harper openly admitted the vaccine doesn't even prevent cervical cancer, stating, "[The vaccine] will not decrease
cervical cancer rates at all."
This is astonishing news. The whole push behind the cervical cancer
vaccines is based on the belief that they prevent cervical
cancer. That belief, it turns out, is a myth.
Editor's note: This story has been updated since first being published. The Sunday Express story originally quoted here has been pulled. We suspect the intimidation of Dr. Harper to retract her statements may be a factor. Read full details in this updated report:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027225_cancer_cervical_Merck.htmlDr. Harper also warned that the
cervical cancer vaccine was being "over-marketed" and that parents should be warned about the possible
risk of severe side effects from the
vaccine. She even concluded that
the vaccine itself is more dangerous than the cervical cancer it claims to prevent!Hysteria over genital warts?
In a New York Times
article published last year, Dr. Harper spoke about the fear-based
marketing of Gardasil by Merck:
"'Merck lobbied every opinion leader, women's group, medical society, politicians, and went directly to the people -- it created a sense of panic that says you have to have this vaccine now..."This behavior by drug
companies -- using fear tactics to promote a particular
disease in order to sell the "treatment" -- is called
disease mongering. Most of the pharmaceutical
profits generated today are based on precisely this tactic: Spread the fear, then sell the treatment. Read more about disease mongering here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/disease_mongering.htmlYou can also toy around with the
NaturalNews disease mongering engine, where you can invent your own diseases at the click of a button:
http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-mongering-engine.aspWhy is disease mongering so important to the profits of the
drug companies? They figured out many years ago that selling
drugs only to those people who are sick was a very limited income opportunity. To rake in the real profits, they needed to devise a way to
sell drugs to healthy people (i.e. people who don't need them). That's what cervical cancer vaccines really are: A scheme to sell vaccines to people who aren't suffering from any disease at all.
That one of the industry's own researchers is willing to speak out against this is not just highly unusual; it's also highly courageous. It makes you wonder: Who, exactly, is this Dr. Harper?
Dr. Diane Harper
Dr. Harper is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studied additional courses at Stanford and received her medical degree from the University of Kansas. She was a key researcher in both
Gardasil and
Cervarix vaccines, and she's one of the most experienced researchers in the world on HPV-related diseases. She's done work for both
Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.
Dr. Harper's warnings about cervical cancer vaccines are especially relevant considering her expertise in the cost/benefit analysis of vaccines. Her conclusion is that cervical
cancer vaccines aren't worth the risks, nor are they worth all the effort being put into hyping them to the public. "This may not be the best use of our resources at this time," she said in a
Washington Post article.
So why do cervical cancer vaccines continue to be pushed by doctors and
health authorities across the US, UK and other first-world nations? Because
Big Pharma is the great corporate puppeteer that's pulling the strings of legislators. With enough
money and lobbyists, you can always overcome scientific thinking with fear-based marketing and under-the-table deal-making. Science-based
medicine has no place in a world where
disease is big business.
There's a ridiculous amount of money to be made by pushing vaccines onto people who don't need them. If I had ten bucks for every teenage girl that's been injected with a cervical
cancer vaccine, I'd be... well... GlaxoSmithKline.
Sources for this story include:UMKC
http://www.med.umkc.edu/informatic_medicine/Faculty/harper.shtmlDartmouth Medical School
http://dms.dartmouth.edu/faculty/facultydb/view.php?uid=2880Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032...Daily Express (article no longer online)
See updated report on this story here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027225_cancer_cervical_Merck.html
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