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Merck Pays Medical Associations to Promote Gardasil
By Dr. William Campbell Douglass on 09/15/2009
The news about Gardasil keeps getting worse. A report has recently come to light revealing that docs from as many as three respected medical associations accepted money from Merck to promote this dangerous and unnecessary vaccine.
According to the authors of the report, the American College Health Association (ACHA), the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), and the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) all accepted money from Merck and then subsequently promoted the vaccine using practically the same strategy as Merck's marketing department.
One doctor who was part of the testing for Gardasil said that Merck "was able to influence opinion leaders in the medical field to promote the vaccine without presenting any downsides."
And with Gardasil, the downsides are many.
The FDA has received reports of as many as 32 deaths associated with the vaccine since September of 2007. But there's now a more recent report, also published in JAMA, which says that the CDC has analyzed as many as 12,000 incidents of adverse side effects caused by this inoculation.
Yet despite the controversy, the ASCCP actually encouraged its membership to lobby "state and federal agencies to pay for the vaccine."
You read that right: a group of doctors was being goaded into practically becoming lobbyists to get the government to start paying for what I can only assume would be mandatory Gardasil vaccinations.
Merck has admitted that it provided $199,000 to the ACHA, $300,000 to the ASCCP, and $250,000 to the SGO to fund "education efforts." I can promise you that this is less money than Merck spent to get their ad agency to generate even one TV commercial for Gardasil.
For less than $1 million, three medical associations peddled their reputations and legitimacy to a pharmaceutical company.
And your daughters and granddaughters are the ones paying the price.
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SoaringCanary
Once again, Dr. Douglass not only speaks to truth but so does he perform his ethical due diligence while peeling back the lies about Gardasil's "safety." In the beginning, Merck also used deceitful PR to get this dubious vaccine pushed by going to the top of state government so that political animals like Governor Rick Perry from Texas [no background in health education] would soon announce that such vaccine would be 'mandatory' [pHARMa loves guarantee of profits] for all Texan girls ages 9-21. Fortunately, there was enough of a backlash from savvy parents so that he was forced to back down, but the point is...there is much deceit and collusion between those who think they can "get away with" using an unwitting pool of consumers as their test market pawns. To be fully aware of these dangers, go to Barbara Loe Fisher's National Vaccine Information Center at www.nvic.org to read about life-altering "and deadly" effects of the Gardasil vaccine [being pushed for young boys too] as well as other vaccines that have caused grievous harm. My mother died at age 49 from Cervical Hyperplasia or Cancer [unchecked HPV] in 1969, but this was NOT for lack of a vaccine...but rather...because she had smoked since age 14 [carcinogens drift to 'seat of pelvis' to sit in tissue which over time festers into angiogenesis], she had a sorely deficient diet [no veggies/fruit/antioxidants/Vit C], didn't get restorative sleep and was suffering from undiagnosed hypo-adrenal/thyroid-ism. I am the first-born daughter who inherited her hormonal imbalances of deficiency and by now, I have pulled myself through such knot hole of metabolic dis-ease so that I better understand what neither she or the medical community knew back then to help her. With a robust metabolism [balanced homeostasis via wholesome dietary choices/targeted supplementation/balanced hormones/adequately performing systems including detox] the human body, via its miraculous immune system, can eradicate HPV all "on its own" and does not require a prophylactic vaccine for such self-clearing and repair. Many vaccines are inherently disruptive to any body [young/compromised/old] when they contain the foreign agents [animal parts, diseased by-products], adjuvants [boosters], heavy metals [mercury, fluoride, aluminum, formaldehyde]...which altogether and over time [like 'annual' flu vaccines] can incite brain toxicity and CNS disorder and paralysis in those who are more constitutionally vulnerable. Needless to say, for all young girls, women, and boys...do what you can to best support the immune system [find Board Certified Nutritionist if necessary] and stay far away from Merck's Gardasil. Again, my sincere kudos to Dr. Douglass for his usual feisty keen [appropriately countering] discernment. May we all stay vigilant, and be well.
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