National Cancer Institute Scientist Admits HPV Vaccine Has Little Value

In a misleading article attempting to promote the HPV vaccine, one of their scientists states that most vaccinated girls are at 'pretty low risk'.

by Heidi Stevenson

15 June 2011

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has issued a bulletin claiming to answer early doubts about the HPV vaccine.⁽¹⁾ It doesn't, of course, answer the real issue. The vaccine has been sold as a cancer preventive. However, whether it actually prevents cancer can be found nowhere in the article. Instead, the question answered is whether the vaccine prevents HPV infections.

The article starts with the misleading statement, "Cervical cancer is the second most deadly cancer in women worldwide." While that's true worldwide, in the United States and other industrialized nations, it's far from the truth. Cervical cancer is one of the most easily detected and treated, with a resultant low rate of death.

That statement is misleading in another sense, since the article does not address whether cervical cancers have been shown to be reduced by the vaccine.

It then goes on to state, "The discovery that human papillomaviruses (HPV) are responsible for cervical cancer initiation..." This is simply not true. A correlation between HPV and cervical cancer has been shown. However, no cause and effect has ever been documented. It is, though, convenient because it's allowed an extremely expensive—not to mention dangerous—vaccine to be pushed.

No Proof that HPV Causes Cervical Cancer

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) acknowledges that:

...at least 50% of sexually active men and women get it at some point in their lives.⁽²⁾

Now, consider that women are more susceptible to HPV infections than men. In fact, the Illinois Department of Health states:

By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection.⁽³⁾

In their bulletin, the NCI states:

HPV types...cause approximately 70 percent of all cervical cancers.

So, the number of cervical cancers that the NCI claims are caused by HPV infections is actually lower than the percentage of women who are infected with them. A more reasonable case might be brought that HPV infections provide a limited degree of protection against cervical cancer. (No, I'm not suggesting that's true—merely pointing out that such correlations are not evidence of cause and effect.)

Nothing but a correlation between cervical cancer and HPV infection has been demonstrated. In light of the numbers, it's equivalent to claiming, "99% of the men in prison have eaten mashed potatoes. Therefore, mashed potatoes must cause crime."

What Does the NCI's Article Claim?

The NCI claims that the HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, prevent certain HPV infections. That's all. But, that isn't what it's being pushed for. It's being pushed as a cancer preventive—something it's never been shown to do.

They admit that a single injection doesn't do the job, that it requires several. More importantly, Dr. John Schiller, head of the NCI's Laboratory of Cellular Oncology's Neoplastic Disease Section, a lead person in developing an HPV vaccine, admitted:

Right now, most of the girls and women getting vaccinated will get screened [for cervical cancer], so they are really pretty low risk; we're mostly preventing premalignant lesions.

So, one of the NCI's lead scientists and a primary person in the development of the HPV vaccine quite clearly acknowledges that, even if it were true that the HPV vaccine did prevent cancer, there is very little value in the jab for the people who've been targeted to receive it. Nowhere are the dangers of the vaccine acknowledged. Nowhere is it noted that many girls have died from it. Nowhere is it admitted how many girls' lives have been devastated by adverse effects. Nowhere is it even admitted that no one has ever shown that it prevents cervical cancer—the excuse for the vaccine's existence!

Yet, even one of the most significant figures in the HPV vaccine's development admits that it's of little value. Where is the so-called evidence-based research to prove that HPV vaccines prevent cervical cancer? It doesn't exist. Where is the risk-benefit analysis? It doesn't exist—or if it does, it's obviously been suppressed.

How many more girls need to die before the Gardasil and Cervarix travesties are ended?

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