Comments on: Gardasil and Fear-Mongering http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2008/07/gardasil-and-fear-mongering Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: deline http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2008/07/gardasil-and-fear-mongering/comment-page-1#comment-562 deline Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:18:13 +0000 http://ourbodies.s467.sureserver.com/blog/2008/07/gardasil-and-fear-mongering#comment-562 This is possibly the best commentary on Gardasil which I have read. From Dr. Diane M. Harper, the lead author of Merck's Gardasil clinical trials: <a href="http://www.kpcnews.com/articles/2007/03/14/online_features/hpv_vaccine/hpv01.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.kpcnews.com/articles/2007/03/14/online_features/hpv_vaccine/hpv01.txt</a> This is possibly the best commentary on Gardasil which I have read. From Dr. Diane M. Harper, the lead author of Merck’s Gardasil clinical trials:

http://www.kpcnews.com/articles/2007/03/14/online_features/hpv_vaccine/hpv01.txt

]]> By: Karen Houppert http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2008/07/gardasil-and-fear-mongering/comment-page-1#comment-561 Karen Houppert Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:31:52 +0000 http://ourbodies.s467.sureserver.com/blog/2008/07/gardasil-and-fear-mongering#comment-561 Indeed, the ongoing hoopla about the HPV vaccine is puzzling indeed. Took me weeks to sort out who was objecting to it and why and whether there was any legitimacy to the objections. Tried to separate the wheat from the chaff myself in this Nation article: <a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070326/houppert/single" rel="nofollow">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070326/houppert/single</a> But it seems that the abstinence-only hardliners continue to come at this sideways, by twisting the numbers a bit and professing that their only concern is young womens' health. Hmmm. Karen Indeed, the ongoing hoopla about the HPV vaccine is puzzling indeed.

Took me weeks to sort out who was objecting to it and why and whether there was any legitimacy to the objections. Tried to separate the wheat from the chaff myself in this Nation article:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070326/houppert/single

But it seems that the abstinence-only hardliners continue to come at this sideways, by twisting the numbers a bit and professing that their only concern is young womens’ health. Hmmm.

Karen

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