HPV is a deadly sexually transmitted virus that can kill millions of women by giving them cervical cancer.

Or is it?

I asked a lot of Merck employees and other advocates of Gardasil about exactly how the HPV causes cancer. Their answers are somewhere along the lines of "Well, there are many factors that can lead to cervical cancer, and HPV is just one of the things involved." Ask them if there is any evidence at all that the vaccine will significantly reduce incidence of cervical cancer. Guess what? There isn't.

Just because they did a couple of studies where they found that most of the women who had cervical cancer had a certain virus in them. From that, they concluded that the virus causes cervical cancer.

One thing that's strongly emphasized in Statistics class is that correlation does not prove causation. That means just because you find a bunch of women with cervical cancer who have HPV, you can't prove that the two have anything to do with each other.

As with everything else, it's all about the money. If you mandate vaccination for all teenage girls, think about how much money Merck would make. They're paying everybody off to promote the vaccine in the media and the medical community. They also have lobbyists giving politicians special favors to make it mandatory. Look at how the governor of Texas handled the situation and tell me he's not corrupt.

The vaccine is only expected to last about 15 years, and even that's debatable. Let's say that a 12 year old girl gets vaccinated. It stops working when she's 27, and she still doesn't have cervical cancer. 15 more years later, she's 42. She finally has cervical cancer. By then, the vaccine will already be obsolete. So what was the point of all of that?

Remember VIOXX? Basically, Merck pushed for speedy approval by the FDA and promoted it heavily t the gullible masses. Any criticism was crushed and ridiculed. Do I need to remind you how that turned out?

This is basically another one of the dirty tricks by Big Pharma. They can only get away with these things in the United States of America. They charge overinflated prices for things that you can get ten times cheaper importing from Canada. Pathetic.

Basically, Gardasil will go down like VIOXX. Except this time, it'll take a couple decades because middle-aged women get cervical cancer, not 12 year old girls.