The Safety and Efficacy of Gardasil

Having a teen daughter, I really took to researching the vaccine Gardasil, after all it came out in 2006 and was touted that it could make your daughter 'One Less' for cervical cancer. I was still vaccinating at that time and wasn't aware of the testing or risks of Gardasil. I really wanted to know how Gardasil could make my daughter 'One Less'. I researched far and wide and found that there are over 120 different strains of the HPV virus, at least 15 of those that can cause cancer. Was this really going to protect my daughter at making her 'One Less'?

What I found was a lot of misinformation on making my daughter 'One Less'.

I found that Gardasil only has 4 different strains that it 'protects' against. Four, that's it. Why only those four? The four strains of HPV in the Gardasil vaccine are 6, 11, 16 & 18. Four. Apparently, those 4 strains are the highest risk in most women. Two causing cancers, 2 causing genital warts. Genital warts are caused by sexual activity - an STD.

What about minority women and girls, African Americans for example. Are those same strains in the highest risk categories for AA women? Nope.

"An article published on October 28, 2013 on the NIH's MedlinePlus website reported on a study, which found that Black women may get less protection than whites from the vaccines recommended for preventing human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer.”

"researchers found that White participants carried strains 16, 18, 33, 39, and 59, whereas Black participants carried strains 31, 35, 45, 56, 58, 66, and 68.  Note that these two sets of strains are completely different. Thus, Black women who are vaccinated with Gardasil are vaccinated against the wrong strains. This is like taking an antibiotic medication against a viral infection. It won’t work."

 This is important to understand since the rate of infection for Black women is the second highest, after Latinas and it is still 39 percent higher than their White counterparts.

In other words, Gardasil had no impact on the number of infected Black women. How is that helping prevent cancer in Black women?

Adverse Events

This is disturbing to me. Gardasil has been on the CDC vaccine schedule since 2006. The following adverse events have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, (VAERS)

 More than 34,240 adverse events, many of them serious, disabling, requiring trips to the ER, hospitalization, life threatening and even causing cancer. Considering Gardasil is given to only 9-26 year old women to help prevent cervical cancer and the median age at diagnosis is 48 years old, 77 of those who have been given Gardasil within the 17 year age difference it is highly unlikely that those women would have ever had cervical cancer at that age.

Gardasil has not even been tested for efficacy over an extended period of time. To date, Gardasil has only been on the vaccine schedule for 8 years, how are we to know the efficacy over time that 9 or even 26 year old women and men that were given Gardasil will even be effective when they are in their near 50's - 60's+? There is no way to prove that it is effective that long.

•48 years for HPV-associated cervical cancer.
•66 for HPV-associated vulvar cancer.
•69 for HPV-associated vaginal cancer.
•68 for HPV-associated penile cancer.
•60 among women and 56 among men for HPV-associated anal cancer.
•61 among women and 58 among men for HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancers.

Dr. Diane Harper explains the progression of HPV related cervical cancers in women infected with HPV.


So what about the study done on Gardasil? Was it an independent study, not done by the vaccine manufactuer or the CDC? A vaccine or clinical drug study is done by the manufacturer because the information must be approved by the FDA before any kind of treatment or prevention of a health condition can be marketed. The manufacturers need to have everything perfect to present to the FDA for final approval. Everything must be perfect, especially when attempting to fast track a vaccine after only a few years and has been given to girls and women. Studies like this take time, time to thoroughly address any kind of health issue such as autoimmune disorders that can manifest after 10 or 15 years. Gardasil was fast tracked in 2 months.




If you are still 'one the fence' about getting the HPV vaccine for your daughter or son please watch this trailer for the documentary One More Girl. The documentary will be out soon and will be available for purchase at the time of distribution.

Please, educate before you vaccinate.

Data Reveals Measles Outbreaks Have Nothing to Do With Non-Vaccination Trends

Whatever we might each think about the decision to not vaccinate ourselves or our children, one thing is clear: vaccination is a heated topic and debates about it often result in polarization. Maybe another thing is clear too: most opinions about vaccination (for or against) are influenced more by editorials on the subject, than by data itself. Thus, here is one more editorial on the subject, albeit one that does not pass judgment on vaccinations, for or against. It is, instead, intended as a call to research, and a reminder of the scientific maxim: correlation is not causation. That goes for both sides of this debate.

On the anti-vaccination side, there are many claims made that are often based on things that the data might imply, but is far from proving. This results in many ideas that are later discredited being circulated as fact.

On the pro-vaccination side, every time there is a measles outbreak, it seems mainstream news outlets trip over themselves to implicate “the growing trend to opt out of vaccinations” as the cause (read: causation). Again, “correlation is not causation”. Here’s why…

If the measles outbreaks in California, and particularly in and around Orange County, as well as New York City are because of non-vaccinators, then why aren’t we seeing outbreaks of everything not being vaccinated for? Why just measles and why all of a sudden, when the number of people opting out of vaccinations has actually steadily dropped in the last few years – after an initial wave of people not doing it?

Non-vaccinators in NY are .1-1% of the population. In California we are talking 1.1-2%. Why aren’t we seeing increases in outbreaks in Vermont, Michigan and Oregon where the rate is over 6%? Correlation (or worse yet, public perception of correlation), is not causation: whether it’s vaccines and autism, or whether it’s a tiny number of people not vaccinating, and a few places having measles outbreaks.

What does the data show on measles in the states where opting out of vaccination trends the highest? There was an instance in Oregon last year, and one this year with a 6% rate of opting out in the state. A child in Washington County, Oregon who developed measles on an overseas trip and exposed hundreds of people in the Portland area. Add to that one case in Oregon this year where a child contracted measles from a vaccinated adult.

Shouldn’t the state be the worst off? And where are Vermont’s outbreaks at 6% non-vaccination?
Measles has been trending down, but in the past year it has spiked in the U.S. in spite of the trend of non-vaccination dropping a bit. Measles outbreaks have been happening all over the world in the past year, even and especially where there is no significant increase of anti-vaccination trends (Turkey, Vietnam, Philippines and several countries in Europe). It’s up in California which likely is accounted for by the fact that there is so much travel in California from abroad. The 2013 case in Oregon? That was a traveller too, who had been in and out of international airports before contracting the disease. Same thing with New York City where outbreaks have been happening at a rate higher than the statistical norm.

States with the highest non-vaccination rates have not seen an increase in measles outbreaks that are statistically significant. News websites like to run with headlines that will get people to share, and vent outrage. But that doesn’t make such articles a good source of scientific data.

Remember, if you take nothing else away from this: correlation is not causation. Just because you heard on the news that there are a lot of people not vaccinating their children (an exaggerated statement, to be sure), does not mean that the rise in measles globally is due to families in Utah refusing vaccinations across the board. This is all the more so when the correlation does not even overlap the places where vaccine refusal is the highest.

Do some research. Use the search field on the CDC website. Hit your local University library up and search scholarly journals and databases. The data on these issues is not hiding, but it will not deliver itself to your email inbox without a little work. When you do the research you’ll find that the facts are not quite as sensational as many headlines might have you believe. There has been a recent spike in measles. That much is clear. But it is happening all over the world and it is actually not happening in places where people are refusing vaccinations the most. Whatever your position is on vaccinations, get the facts and don’t spread assumptions made by lazy writers. Again, that goes for both sides of the vaccination issue.

Unacceptable Levels

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Unacceptable Levels examines the results of the chemical revolution of the 1940s through the eyes of affable filmmaker Ed Brown, a father seeking to understand the world in which he and his wife are raising their children. To create this debut documentary, one man and his camera traveled extensively to find and interview top minds in the fields of science, advocacy, and law. Weaving their testimonies into a compelling narrative, Brown presents us with the story of how the chemical revolution brought us to where we are, and of where, if we’re not vigilant, it may take us.

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