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Gardasil and the Sad State of Present-Day Medical Practices
Posted on 2011/10/27
A common albeit bowdlerized statement of the Hippocratic Oath is, “First, do no harm”. In modern parlance, one might put it that any medical treatment should have a very high ratio of benefits compared to risks. Present-day practices do not conform to that. Some friends call me cynical, other friends call me naïve. I suppose […]
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HPV does not cause cervical cancer; HPV vaccination can be deadly
Posted on 2018/09/16
(Cross-posted from http://scimedskeptic.wordpress.com/) Evidence continues to mount that the presumed connection between HPV and cervical cancer is no more than a statistical association, not a causative relationship: The Gardasil controversy: as reports of adverse effects increase, cervical cancer rates rise in HPV-vaccinated age groups Annette Gartland “The Gardasil vaccines continue to be vaunted as life-saving, but […]
Posted in uncritical media, unwarranted dogmatism in science, vaccines | 9 Comments »
Vaccines: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Posted on 2017/05/21
Only in recent years have I begun to wonder whether there are reasons not to follow official recommendations about vaccination. In the 1930s, I had the then-usual vaccinations, including (in Austria, perhaps Europe) against smallpox. A few others in later years when I traveled quite a bit. But the Andrew Wakefield affair *, and the […]
Posted in consensus, experts, Legal aspects, unwarranted dogmatism in science, vaccines | 2 Comments »
HIV/AIDS Skepticism 