Rob > 9/11, Sky News, Kay Burley: “The entire Eastern Seaboard of the United States has been devastated by a terrorist attack.” Awesome.

Po > Correct. But who in Sky News or The Times (and, I’m sure, may others) actually thinks that way?

Ro > I’m blissfully unhappy with getting my shock-hooror-skandaal[ sic] online, thanks.

HH > Education is the key to all these things. But some people just don’t want to learn. Or they want to learn the wrong thing.

D > Wakefield’s Lancet jaunt was a watershed for publishing in peer-reviewed journals. That he could have take everyone (including one of the biggest medical journals) for a ride was incredible. His legacy lives on: Gauteng measles outbreak – current He should be sued for hundreds, if not thousands of deaths.

Stan > Which is why you come here to read better quality nonsense?

Gregory > Where to begin?
1. No, there is not a higher incidence of GBS associated with HPV vaccine. Link:

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) has been reported after vaccination with Gardasil. GBS is a rare disorder that causes muscle weakness. It occurs in 1-2 out of every 100,000 people in their teens. A number of infections can cause GBS. There has been no indication that Gardasil increases the rate of GBS in girls and women above the rate expected in the general population, whether or not they were vaccinated.

I know this incident was with Cervarix, not Gardasil, but the differences between the two vaccines are cosmetic.

2. As an aside, cervical cancer is also (usually) fatal. In far more cases than GBS.

3. It is not irresponsible to give terminally ill child a shot, especially if you are unaware that she is terminally ill. Nor was she, at any stage, misdiagnosed by doctors – only by the media.

4. Nearly right, but I’ll add one small correction:

“She died of a malignant thoraic tumour after getting the shot end of story.”

She also probably had Weetabix for breakfast that morning and walked past a bakery on the way to school. Why aren’t you (or the media) blaming them?

But hey, why bother – there’s always IVF treatment available years down the line!
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But now there will be thousands of people that won’t get the vaccine, because they are scared of it.
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