Maybe because no one got hep B? That is a shame that a preventable disease was like prevented.

I’m still looking for a reference on the hair analysis. Mercury does show up in hair, but I understand the usefulness of testing hair is not as good as patients are led to believe. I’ll dig up the reference, make sure I’m remembering it right.

Luke, regarding Gardasil I think it’s a worthy thing. But I do not think it is worth mandating for school admission, and indeed, few districts do. It is not required in my state (Minnesota). This is not merely because of safety concerns but because it is not possible to obtain herd immunity when such a large disease reservoir (males) will remain. It has insufficient societal benefit to justify recommending mass vaccination. It fails the risk-benefit test, at least on the societal level. On the individual level, it may be a different matter. I have a few years yet before I have to decide whether or not to have my daughters vaccinated against HPV. I think it’s a good vaccine, and individually there is a good risk-benefit equation. But I am concerned that it is being overhyped, perhaps in an attempt to recoup development costs, and perhaps among politicians out of a misguided attempt to pander to women voters by appearing to be extra focused on their health.

Other vaccines are a different story. The mandatory childhood vaccines are not a money-making enterprise. In many cases, the government actually has to subsidize them in order to ensure the vaccine makers will keep producing enough quantity of them, and they furthermore have to provide litigant-friendly mechanisms for compensating people who are injured. Unlike other drugs, the profit margin for vaccines (even with the subsidies) is so paper-thin that it wouldn’t take very many lawsuits to scare a manufacturer away. So the government pays out instead. It’s fair; mandating the vaccine was the government’s idea in the first place, after all. But by and large, vaccines are not a big profit maker. They’re reliable (in terms of return on investment) but the payout is not all that large. If you want someplace with a really big profit margin, look to impotence cures and anti-aging treatments, both alternative (Enzyte, Juvenon) and pharmaceutical (Viagra, Botox). That’s where the real money is.

Luke, you make quite a few “truth-statements” that don’t seem to be based in much truth. Not any that any of us can find that is factually verifiable. Shane already pointed out your complete mis-representation of deaths caused by Gardasil. I think you need to look into these things yourself instead of just buying into the latest mass-hysteria driven hype. No link has been found between Gardasil and any death. Period. Until proven, any outrageous claims to the contrary are just that…outrageous claims.

I also guess those “One Less” commercials tick me off, I got the hep B vaccine back in 6th grade and regret it now as it was pointless and the schools said they were trying to prevent the spread of disease in classrooms. (which of course is a lie)

Ok… so you think it was pointless. What are you basing that on? What factual evidence do you have to back up the claim that it is pointless? Are you just smarter than pretty much every trained physician at the CDC? Or are you just guessing? And so what if it was pointless in your mind? Were you harmed in some way by getting it? Why on earth would you regret it?

Luke… I think you have some anger issues that might be terribly misplaced here. What are you really angry at? Just think about it…

Interesting info on the false positive aspect of hair samples and forced urine tests. Can you provide a link that has more info on those?

The EMEA said: “In both cases, the cause of death could not be identified.
“No causal relationship has been established between the deaths of the young women and the administration of Gardasil.”

There have been 3 deaths in the US. I can’t find a link to a citation that Gardasil was a causal link to the deaths. Lots of blogs from anti-vaxers though.