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This article was worth it simply for the phrase "HPV vaccines are recommended for early teens, in order to reduce infections resulting from parents being out of town."

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May 21, 2022Liked by Brian Mowrey

I will have to search for the article, but cannot get to it tonight. I wanted to share some clinical stories.

One of my most emotionally punishing cases was the death of a 28 year old mother of three from cervical Ca. I admitted her mother to ICU about ten years later for her MI, and was not in any way blamed as I had really only met her daughter after her diagnosis, but it still remains a punishing experience.

When the HPV shots were released I was naturally enthusiastic. I had read the Japanese reports a few years later and asked the Merck rep (hello, Cynthia) about the odd neuropsychiatric symptoms but was reassured. I followed the guidelines and encouraged women to age 26 to take the free provincial "Catchup" injections.

The article which I will find later reveals the increase of non serotype 16 and 18 HPV in recent cervical biopsies. Does this remind us of the Covid shots? You induce specific antibodies and the other variants supersede the initial pathogens.

One of my student preceptors, Dr. George Lee in SF, had an interest in vaginal clear cell Ca. This was a condition found in the daughters! of women who had been treated with DES in the 1950's to suppress miscarriages. A local school is named after Dr. Frances Kelsey, who was instrumental in preventing the approval of thalidomide in the USA in the late 1950's- of course we had it in Canada.

Novel injections for a cold? I can hardly wait for the 10 year outcome, I will likely be gone before the entire story is known. I am so thankful that I don't have to wait 75 years for the Pfizer reveal.

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May 17, 2022Liked by Brian Mowrey

Or we could simply stop engaging in immoral sex. Sex should be only between monogamous husband and wife (male & female). All STD's could be eliminated in one generation.

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It really is a magic trick that fools the masses into believing that any of this medical “science” has an empirical backing. Few think about the practical ways to validate a premise, thinking that “safe and effective” is determined through some nebulous procedure by people smarter than themselves (“I don’t know how they know it, but they figured it out somehow!”) Like you outline in this essay, there’s only one way to find out if a vaccine like this is effective: you need to wait a super long time (and then be bothered to do a follow-up study.) This is obviously antithetical to most career goals from even a purely personal motivation standpoint… when you start factoring in the economic pressure, it’s basically a miracle if any additional research is done at all.

Like you also say, almost everything in medicine has to be studied through correlation alone, for practical and ethical reasons. You can’t go around infecting people with a pathogen to assess direct cause and effect relationships, nor can you account for every factor of an individual’s unique biological makeup. But in order for a correlation to have any causative value, one needs to be stringent in their methodology. It’s why once upon a time, the first postulate of viral theory was that the “microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy organisms.” Fortunately for the perception of progress, Typhoid Mary came along and the asymptomatic carrier, which likely sounded like foolish doublespeak to many at the time, was established, throwing a wrench in what little actual value these mass population studies had. So we now know that viruses cause disease, except when they don’t, akin to how sometimes the heat from my stove doesn’t boil my water. It’s a crapshoot!

Science, by it’s very philosophical nature, is ill-equipped to deal with multi-causal effects and to try and solve this riddle, the discipline has been stripped of all the elements that made it an empirical method in the first place. In the case of cancer, Hippocrates himself allegedly said something to the effect of “the more you do, the worse it gets, so leave it alone, ya wanker!” But ancient wisdom based on common sense seems foolish to us evolved, intelligent monkeys and more importantly, you can’t charge someone for doing nothing (eh, unless you’re the government I suppose…)

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"Some groceries do, in fact, grow on trees." Elegant.

I'm curious about the cancer graph, showing increases in cancers with age. Conventional wisdom seems to agree that cancers take time to grow, and we wear out with time, so it's natural. But we also take more meds with age, commonly for diabetes and cholesterol, which also reduce immune function. Maybe cancers are just another example of being poisoned by our medics. Maybe p53 malfunction is exacerbated by immune dysfunction.

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May 17, 2022·edited May 17, 2022Liked by Brian Mowrey

A young man I know got HPV of the throat 6-8 months after HPV vaccination. This has had a debilitating effect on his life, to be sure.* His mother kept him from vaccinations until he was 18. They effing jabbed him with the disease itself. My anger remains. Jabs = disease. Remember back in the 1980's, the commercials against the drug war? Hey kids, drugs are bad. Injected drugs especially are really bad. Well, they are. A healthy body needs no injections.

*When I discussed this with a doctor, off the record, they suggested he had been sexually abused and that is why he had HPV in the throat. This is how a typical MD's mind works...they simply cannot see themselves or their INDUSTRY as causal in sickness. Well, that is the real problem, now, isn't it? Medical industry doctors need to become extinct, they have decimated their oath.

Power to the professional Doctors who are willing to see the damage the medical industry does.

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Maybe HPV rates are lower from lockdowns keeping people isolated from sex and hookups.

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May 17, 2022·edited May 18, 2022Liked by Brian Mowrey

by the time they will come around to saying opppsss sorry the wrong vaccine ...

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