Episode 77: Dr. Christian Fiala on 'HIV 2.0' -- HPV, Cervical Cancer and the 'Sacrifice of the Virgins' [ 1 h 04 min 00 s | 29.3 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (664)

Lack of scientific rigor, a business model based on rushing a vaccine to the market without long-term safety testing, hysterical risk/benefit assumptions around an emotionally charged and highly dangerous disease — does this sound familiar?  Did we forget to mention, enormous profits?  A campaign is well underway, to declare the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) a leading cause of cervical cancer and promote the Gardasil vaccine against it.  It’s “HIV 2.0,” as noted Viennese gynecologist and Rethinking AIDS board member Dr. Christian Fiala calls it.

RA and Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society President David Crowe leads an uncommonly specific, scientific and rational conversation on this controversial topic, which Katie Couric recently covered on her ABC talk show, Katie.  Even the mainstream “experts” state that everyone should seek an “informed decision” on whether to get vaccinated, so let’s get informed already. . . .

Fourteen years after the media announced HPV with great fanfare, sexism and logical inconsistencies in an article by Dr. Jerome Groopman in The New Yorker, the basic question remains: Does HPV cause cervical cancer?  Dr. Fiala examines the evidence for causation versus “association” and finds it lacking and unconvincing.  Yet, based on a small, mostly speculative benefit against cancer, we are urged to vaccinate children as young as 11 years of age — what “How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely calls here “the sacrifice of the virgins.”

We were surprised to learn that even noted AIDS dissident scientist and fellow RA board member Dr. Peter Duesberg has published a paper on the topic (excerpted here under “HPV and Cancer”) as part of his continuing research into chromosomal factors in cancer (aneuploidy).  And David quotes the CDC’s own Web page on just how “rare” the serious and/or fatal effects of Gardasil aren’t.  (“The 1 to 10% rate of reporting adverse events is from other sources, but I’ve seen that several times, for example, as a disclaimer at the bottom of every page of a Canadian adverse reaction report,” he says.)

Big pharma Merck has even managed to float a propaganda campaign to take a weakness of the vaccine — a mere five years of data on cancer prevention and debilitating side effects studied so far — and turn it into a strength by recommending re-vaccination every five years.  (Ka-ching!)

Meanwhile, we’ve been getting some strong reactions to a recent Podcast, Episode 74 on Why Germs Don’t Make You Ill & Drugs Can’t Cure You.  See more excerpts from the online discussion here.  David and Beth briefly discuss this feedback and invite further comments by e-mailing info@howpositiveareyou.com or posting at our Facebook page, “How positive are you?“.

CENSORSHIP ALERT!: The first two Katie interviews linked above are — shockingly — difficult to find on the show’s Web site and have either disappeared from, or drifted far down on, Google search results.  We think that’s a good enough reason for our listeners to share them far and wide, don’t you?  We provide them again for your convenience:

These two interviews, with mothers and daughters, are no longer searchable:
Is the HIV Vaccine Safe?
Was the HPV Vaccine Responsible for One Girl’s Death?

However, a third interview, with a government “expert,” appears prominently on the show’s home page.  Sadly, this expert spouts statistics without mentioning how they were arrived at, lacks any scientific context as to causation, and urges parents “to have a good conversation about the vaccines and to get them“:
HPV Vaccine Conversation Continued

Couric had visited the Gardasil controversy before.  Famous American gynecologist and natural-hormones advocate Dr. Christiane Northrup reacted eloquently to a 2009 CBS News report, and also provided advice for preventing cervical cancer.  Be well!