Comments on: Merck To Text Teens About Gardasil Reminders?

By: Justin Bentley

Justin Bentley — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:36:19 +0000

I am so glad to live in a free country where drug makers can bend & break rules. You know what I find really hilarious about the US? A batch of tomatoes makes a lot of people sick so all the tomatoes are immediately recalled. On the other hand, a moneymaking worthless drug like Gardasil that is left on the market after nearly 4000 bad reactions and 11 deaths.

Go Merck!!!

You know what my vote is? Let’s let it kill 100 poor unsuspecting teens. How about 1000? I mean, what number of children must we kill before anyone gives a rats ass about them and recalls this ridiculous drug that is marketed like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

The United States is an absolute joke. The FDA is an atrocity. I think we are the laughing stock of the free world.

Any Merck executives who give a crap can give me a call at my office anytime so I can give you some advice on how to run an honest business. You have my information.

By the way, I am selling all my Merck stock and encouraging all of my friends and customers to do so.

Thank you,

Justin Bentley
National Sales Director
Telcom National

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:34:12 +0000

Where were the trials conducted for this product….fast tract from abroad?????

By: punter

punter — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:52:22 +0000

Gardasil is, quite possibly, the greatest scientific fraud in history (and it has some great competition). When they evaluated the vaccine for safety, they asked the FDA if they could give the ‘placebo’ recipients injections of an undisclosed amount of aluminium instead of saline. The FDA, astonishingly (astonishing if you don’t know much about the FDA that is), agreed. Lo and behold, the ‘placebo’ recipients had only slightly less significant adverse reactions than the Gardasil recipients. Conclusion: The vaccine was safe.

This experiment is equivalent to me giving 100 kids cyanide and 100 kids ‘placebos’ containing arsenic, noting that deaths occurred in 100 per cent of both the control and trial groups, therefore, cyanide was safe.

As astonishing as this is, you can look for yourself on the web for the study at http://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/g/gardasil/gardasil_pi.pdf

By: how about the truth

how about the truth — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:52:05 +0000

Nathan,
No one wants anyone to die from cervical cancer, but you’re not guaranteeing that your daughter won’t get cervical cancer just because she gets Gardasil. Why? First, because it only protects against the viruses that cause about 70 percent of cervical cancer — meaning she still can get the other 1/3 that can lead to cancer. And, she still has to get her Pap tests, or she might get cervical cancer anyway from those other 1/3. Second, the other thing Merck isn’t telling you is that if you just so happen to be positive for the HPVs against which the shot protects at the time you get the shot, it does NOT work — it has ZERO percent efficacy then! So, until they approve some kind of test for HPV that can tell you whether you’re positive for the HPVs Gardasil protects against before you get the shot, you may or may not be protected, especially since you don’t necessarily have to have been sexually active to acquire HPV. Oh, yes, sex is the primary way that it’s spread. But not the only way. Educate yourself more about what HPV is and how it’s spread, and about what this vaccine does or does not do. Then decide what to do for your daughter. P.S. I am NOT anti-vaccine. My kids, who are now grown, did have all their shots.

By: harpy

harpy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:23:52 +0000

Typically when I need a follow-up visit the receptionist schedules it before I leave the office and I get a reminder call a day or two before I’m due back in. Merck may have good intentions with this program, but it still seems shady to me. I wouldn’t fill it out.

Nathan - in addition to abstinence I do hope you teach your daughters about birth control, and by this I mean condom use, because there are far more immediate consequences they could suffer from poor judgment in the back seat after a football game. Condoms don’t protect against everything, but they’re better than nothing.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:51:53 +0000

I worked for Merck way before Gardasil came about, yet I feel this way about any drug, vaccination, or injection: It should never be enforced by anyone except an agreement between an unaffiliated doctor and a patient regarding these matters.

If you do your homework, you’ll find that children were injected with awful medications and even diseases on occasion by force and with intent, and we should not allow this to happen ever again.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:38:25 +0000

Nathan,

Same here.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:44:07 +0000

BTW, just so you don’t think I’m hypocritical about this:
I have two young daughters. I’m a conservative Christian and like most Christians I will teach them abstenence until marriage. But I’m still going to get them vaccinated for HPV. Why? I don’t want one of them to die of cervical cancer due to some poor judgement she made in the back seat of car after a football game.
And, no, I don’t work for Merck.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:38:18 +0000

Doug,
Are you aware of the risk-benefit ratio for the chicken pox vaccine? Just wondering…

This will open up a can of worms — but remember that manditory vaccines are NOT about the risk-benefit ratio of the individual. They are about the risk-benifit ratio of SOCIETY. Polio and smallpox vaccines have taught us that (as a society) we can essentially eradicate particular diseases. In my opinion, if we can eradicate a disease that kills ~4000 people per year, we should do it. 4000 people may seems like a small number to you. Only 3000 people died on 9-11. It seemed like a huge number at the time. We’re talking about 4000 people EVERY YEAR — year, after year, after year. We CAN eliminate this desease — and we should.

(clarification: we can eliminate 2 isoforms of the disease with current vaccines — that accounts for 70% of the 4000 annual deaths)

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:12:50 +0000

“What is the concern with using the information for market research purposes? All that typically means that is that a participant can be contacted to participate in surveys or focus groups. ”

These are minors who should NOT be solicited for market research without their parents knowledge.