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OH. DEAR. GODS.
Sep. 2nd, 2009 01:35 amPlease, PLEASE tell me that these people are a fringe minority.
Sep. 2nd, 2009
Please, PLEASE tell me that these people are a fringe minority.
Writer's Block: On the List
Sep. 2nd, 2009 01:24 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
The Modern world? If "Modern" means "Not ancient and still around", then hmm.
Okay, here's an off-the-cuff list, in no particular order:
1. Insulin.
2. Electricity.
3. The Constitution of the United States.
4. Antibiotics.
5. Flight.
6. Rock and Roll.
7. The Internet.
8. Bonus: Cameras. Because I still can't figure out why they work except by MAGIC.
A list of Seven Wonders of the Natural World would have been so, SO much more interesting.
The Modern world? If "Modern" means "Not ancient and still around", then hmm.
Okay, here's an off-the-cuff list, in no particular order:
1. Insulin.
2. Electricity.
3. The Constitution of the United States.
4. Antibiotics.
5. Flight.
6. Rock and Roll.
7. The Internet.
8. Bonus: Cameras. Because I still can't figure out why they work except by MAGIC.
A list of Seven Wonders of the Natural World would have been so, SO much more interesting.
From CBS News Investigates:
WASHINGTON, August 19, 2009
Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out: "Public Should Receive More Complete Warnings"
Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing.
Dr. Diane Harper says young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Dr. Harper helped design and carry out the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies to get Gardasil approved, and authored many of the published, scholarly papers about it. She has been a paid speaker and consultant to Merck. It’s highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticize a medicine or vaccine she helped get approved.
Dr. Harper joins a number of consumer watchdogs, vaccine safety advocates, and parents who question the vaccine’s risk-versus-benefit profile. She says data available for Gardasil shows that it lasts five years; there is no data showing that it remains effective beyond five years.
( rest of article under here )
Source here.
Hopefully a lot of parents will read this article before they go running off to get the Gardasil vaccine for their daughters.
WASHINGTON, August 19, 2009
Gardasil Researcher Speaks Out: "Public Should Receive More Complete Warnings"
Amid questions about the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil one of the lead researchers for the Merck drug is speaking out about its risks, benefits and aggressive marketing.
Dr. Diane Harper says young girls and their parents should receive more complete warnings before receiving the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Dr. Harper helped design and carry out the Phase II and Phase III safety and effectiveness studies to get Gardasil approved, and authored many of the published, scholarly papers about it. She has been a paid speaker and consultant to Merck. It’s highly unusual for a researcher to publicly criticize a medicine or vaccine she helped get approved.
Dr. Harper joins a number of consumer watchdogs, vaccine safety advocates, and parents who question the vaccine’s risk-versus-benefit profile. She says data available for Gardasil shows that it lasts five years; there is no data showing that it remains effective beyond five years.
( rest of article under here )
Source here.
Hopefully a lot of parents will read this article before they go running off to get the Gardasil vaccine for their daughters.