Comments on: Rather Off Topic http://leighsteele.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/rather-off-topic/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:20:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Isabel http://leighsteele.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/rather-off-topic/#comment-2281 Isabel Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:17:12 +0000 http://leighsteele.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/rather-off-topic/#comment-2281 Thoughtful as always. Your voice is so uniquely your own and I love being on the receiving end. Thoughtful as always.
Your voice is so uniquely your own and I love being on the receiving end.

]]> By: mb http://leighsteele.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/rather-off-topic/#comment-2273 mb Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:58:35 +0000 http://leighsteele.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/rather-off-topic/#comment-2273 It's all about the money, honey. sad. sad. sad. It’s all about the money, honey.

sad. sad. sad.

]]> By: Crunchy [On The Inside] :: What she said.2 :: August :: 2007 http://leighsteele.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/rather-off-topic/#comment-2266 Crunchy [On The Inside] :: What she said.2 :: August :: 2007 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:12:16 +0000 http://leighsteele.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/rather-off-topic/#comment-2266 [...] Go read. Especially for those of us who are mothering little girls, this is too important to ignore. [...] [...] Go read. Especially for those of us who are mothering little girls, this is too important to ignore. [...]

]]> By: Jeanette http://leighsteele.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/rather-off-topic/#comment-2265 Jeanette Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:05:32 +0000 http://leighsteele.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/rather-off-topic/#comment-2265 My reaction was as deep and as strong as yours Leigh. I echo the chorus of women thanking you for articulating what has been circulating in my head and heart. One other important point on this vaccine is the cost - at $300 -$500 for the series - this is a vacccine for the rich/insured. If it were really so necessary, so important, so foolproof - then what about all those girls who just cannot afford to get the shot? (of course, that's also an argument about universal health care). Then there is the whole idea that the approval was fast-tracked, and the active lobby efforts of the manufacturer "Merck announced that it would suspend lobbying states to require girls – as young as 11 – to submit to Gardasil, the HPV “vaccine”. Yes, Merck was actively lobbying States to require girls as young as 9 to buy their product." http://betterwaytowellness.com/blog/2007/02/23/people-protest-%E2%80%93-merck-backs-down-a-little/ And this: "The FDA allowed Merck to use a potentially reactive aluminum containing placebo as a control for most trial participants, rather than a non-reactive saline solution placebo.[1] A reactive placebo can artificially increase the appearance of safety of an experimental drug or vaccine in a clinical trial. Gardasil contains 225 mcg of aluminum and, although aluminum adjuvants have been used in vaccines for decades, they were never tested for safety in clinical trials. Merck and the FDA did not disclose how much aluminum was in the placebo.[2]" http://www.inciid.org/article.php?cat=&id=433 sigh. My reaction was as deep and as strong as yours Leigh. I echo the chorus of women thanking you for articulating what has been circulating in my head and heart.

One other important point on this vaccine is the cost – at $300 -$500 for the series – this is a vacccine for the rich/insured. If it were really so necessary, so important, so foolproof – then what about all those girls who just cannot afford to get the shot? (of course, that’s also an argument about universal health care).

Then there is the whole idea that the approval was fast-tracked, and the active lobby efforts of the manufacturer

“Merck announced that it would suspend lobbying states to require girls – as young as 11 – to submit to Gardasil, the HPV “vaccine”. Yes, Merck was actively lobbying States to require girls as young as 9 to buy their product.”
http://betterwaytowellness.com/blog/2007/02/23/people-protest-%E2%80%93-merck-backs-down-a-little/

And this:
“The FDA allowed Merck to use a potentially reactive aluminum containing placebo as a control for most trial participants, rather than a non-reactive saline solution placebo.[1] A reactive placebo can artificially increase the appearance of safety of an experimental drug or vaccine in a clinical trial. Gardasil contains 225 mcg of aluminum and, although aluminum adjuvants have been used in vaccines for decades, they were never tested for safety in clinical trials. Merck and the FDA did not disclose how much aluminum was in the placebo.[2]”
http://www.inciid.org/article.php?cat=&id=433

sigh.

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