Breaking News: On January 14, 2016, Dr. Sin Hang Lee sent an open letter of complaint to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, charging members of GACVS, the CDC, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and others with manipulation of data and suppression of science in order to maintain the illusion of HPV vaccine safety in the face of valid contradictory evidence.
According to Dr. Lee’s letter, a series of emails recently uncovered via a Freedom of Information request submitted in New Zealand revealed evidence that Dr. Robert Pless, chairperson of the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), Dr. Nabae Koji of the Ministry of Health of Japan, Dr. Melinda Wharton of the CDC, Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris of Auckland University, New Zealand, and others (including WHO officials) may have been actively involved in a scheme to deliberately mislead the Japanese Expert Inquiry on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine safety before, during and after the February 26, 2014 public hearing in Tokyo.
The complaint letter states that the emails provided clearly demonstrate this group of WHO officials and government employees charged with the responsibility of advising the expert committee from the Japanese government on HPV vaccination safety knew before the February 26, 2014 Tokyo public hearing that one of their own experts showed scientific evidence that HPV vaccination does increase cytokines, including tumor necrosis factor (TNF), particularly at the injection site compared to other vaccines. Yet, they chose to suppress this information at the public hearing.
Of course, this piece of scientific data which was known to all members of the group is also missing from the GACVS Statement on the safety of HPV vaccination issued on March 12, 2014. Unfortunately for medical consumers, this is the same GACVS statement currently being used to assure health officials, political decision makers and medical professionals around the world there is nothing to worry about when it comes to the safety of HPV vaccines.
Dr. Lee concluded his letter of complaint by clearly stating that there is at least one known mechanism of action explaining why serious adverse reactions occur more often in people injected with HPV vaccines than other vaccines, and why certain predisposed individuals may suffer a sudden unexplained death as a result. It appears this is part of the information the ‘experts’ deemed necessary to suppress.
Dr. Lee states:
Those whose names appear in my complaint and any who blindly dismiss valid safety concerns in order to continue promoting HPV vaccinations should be held accountable for their actions. There is no excuse for intentionally ignoring scientific evidence. There is no excuse for misleading global vaccination policy makers at the expense of public health interests. There is no excuse for such a blatant violation of the public trust.
What happens when a potential blockbuster vaccine (Gardasil, Cervarix, or Gardasil 9) is simply not accepted by the public on the same level as other recommended vaccines?
Do the manufacturers and international health authorities re-examine the product to assess whether or not public concerns are valid? Not often, and when they do it is pretty much a cursory ‘investigation’ where they are quite careful to NOT look in the direction needed to expose any potential problems. What is wrong with this picture?
Could it have anything to do with the fact psychologists and psychiatrists have been studying how to manipulate public behavior for over 35 years?
Could the results of these studies be used by HPV vaccine promoters to manipulate the public, medical professionals and/or politicians to increase the uptake of HPV vaccines?
Think back a few years. Before HPV vaccines were released for public consumption advertisements appeared aimed at creating fear of HPV infections. It didn’t matter that 90% of these infections cleared on their own without medical intervention or symptoms of any kind. It didn’t matter that cervical cancer was under control in most developed countries. Mothers and daughters were told this dreaded infection was likely to doom them to death by cervical cancer. Remember the “One Less Girl” and “Armed for Life” commercials? Were these commercials good marketing, or psychological manipulation?
Many health authorities went out of their way to convince medical professionals who would be administering this new wonder drug that any medical conditions experienced by the recipients after HPV vaccines were most likely psychosomatic or coincidental. Was this protecting the public health, or psychological manipulation?
As part of the Cervarix pharmacovigilance strategy, at the start of the immunisation programme we wrote to healthcare professionals involved to encourage use of the Yellow Card Scheme to report suspected side effects.
Psychogenic events include vasovagal syncope, faints, panic attacks, and associated symptoms. These can occur with any injection procedure, not only vaccination, and can be common in adolescents. Such events can be associated with a wide range of temporary signs and symptoms, including: loss of consciousness; vision disturbance; injury; limb jerking (often misinterpreted as a seizure or convulsion); limb numbness or tingling; and difficulty in breathing or hyperventilation. These are due to fear or anticipation of the needle injection and are not side effects of Cervarix vaccine as such.
Dr. Ron Dagan was Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel, and Director of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit at the Soroka University Medical Center, also in Beer-Sheva at the time. His expert advice to Israel’s Advisory Committee regarding HPV vaccine implementation was as follows (translation provided-emphasis added):
We are dealing with injections, some of which are given in 3 [separate] doses, which are delivered to teenage girls. Many side effects are to be expected. During the week following the delivery of the injections many serious events which are not related to the vaccination are expected: fainting, deaths and convulsions/fits. This needs to be taken into account. Even if it is not rational, if these events happen in class they may damage the general reputation of vaccinations. This is happening all over the world all the time. We have already dealt with a similar issue in relation to the delivery of MMR with TD and Polio and we have accepted the nurse’s proposal to split these between grades 1 and 2. The nurses are suitable to make recommendations to the committee in relation to this issue. In relation to the side effects, we need to be prepared in advance and not simply react after the fact. I propose we consult with the English representatives as to how they’ve gone about this.
Not sure this qualifies as psychological manipulation?
Take a look at the following excerpt from an article published in The Australian Journal of Pharmacy by Ben Basger, lecturer and tutor in pharmacy practice, Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney. This article addresses what pharmacists can do to increase vaccine uptake among ‘vaccine-hesitant’ families.
Vaccine communication strategies that build rapport and trust need to be incorporated into healthcare encounters. Unfortunately, attempts to persuade carers using graphic narratives (that is, frightening people) or by simply providing more information often fail or backfire.
Vaccine discussions with healthcare providers should occur early, as studies have shown that the vaccine decision making process begins prenatally. And so we turn to a behavioural “stages of change” model. You may be familiar with the ‘pre-contemplator’, ‘contemplator’ model.
What is the Stages of Change Model?
The “Stages of Change Model” was developed over the last 35 years as a result of over$80 million worth of grants to a single organization from agencies like the CDC, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Cancer Institute to name a few. Who knows how many other organizations have been working on similar projects.
Nevertheless, this model is currently in use by professionals around the world.
The model provides suggested strategies for public health interventions to address people at various stages of the decision-making process allowing public health officials to create specific, effective programs, messages and interventions that are tailored for each target population’s level of knowledge and motivation.
According to the Boston University School of Public Health’s document on behavioral changes, the Stages of Change (or Transtheoretical Model/TMM) operates on the assumption that people do not change behaviors quickly and decisively. Rather, changes in behavior occur continuously through a cyclical process. For each of the six Stages of Change in the diagram above, different intervention strategies have been found to be most effective at moving the person to the next stage of change and subsequently through the model to maintenance, the ideal stage of behavior.
Ten of these Processes of Change (POC) have been identified as strategies to help people move through the Stages of Change to result in the desired behavior or decision. They are as follows:
Consciousness Raising – Increasing awareness about the healthy behavior.
Dramatic Relief – Emotional arousal about the health behavior, whether positive or negative arousal.
Self-Reevaluation – Self reappraisal to realize the healthy behavior is part of who they want to be.
Environmental Reevaluation – Social reappraisal to realize how their unhealthy behavior affects others.
Social Liberation – Environmental opportunities that exist to show society is supportive of the healthy behavior.
Self-Liberation – Commitment to change behavior based on the belief that achievement of the healthy behavior is possible.
Helping Relationships – Finding supportive relationships that encourage the desired change.
Counter-Conditioning – Substituting healthy behaviors and thoughts for unhealthy behaviors and thoughts.
Reinforcement Management – Rewarding the positive behavior and reducing the rewards that come from negative behavior.
Stimulus Control – Re-engineering the environment to have reminders and cues that support and encourage the healthy behavior and remove those that encourage the unhealthy behavior.
Now, go back and read through the processes of change (POC) inserting the words ‘HPV vaccines’ in place of ‘the healthy behavior’. Think about everything you have ever seen or heard about HPV vaccines from an ‘official’ source.
How much of what you recall fits nicely into one or more of these categories?
Still not convinced society is the victim of psychological manipulation?
Although the HPV vaccine appears in the US immunization schedule during adolescence, a large percentage of women reach adulthood without being vaccinated. The Transtheoretical Model’s (TTM) Processes of Change (POC) construct provides an assessment of participants’ experiences with HPV vaccination and is a central component of computer-tailored interventions designed to increase compliance with medical recommendations, such as vaccination. This study describes development and validation of a POC measure for increasing HPV vaccination among young adult women.
Everyone who is or might be considering submitting to or administering HPV vaccines needs to read the entire paper. But, one should pay particular attention to Figure 1 HPV vaccine acquisition processes of change structural mode on page 306 of the Open Journal of Preventive Medicine (3, 301-309. doi: 10.4236/ ojpm.2013.33041). ach
The figure referenced above clearly states what the subject should be thinking at each stage of the ’processes of change.” Let’s go through them one at a time in the order listed above.
This is what you are supposed to do after exposure to each ’process of change’
AFTER EXPOSURE TO:
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO:
Consciousness Raising:
Recall seeing advertisements for HPV vaccines; seek out facts about HPV vaccines; pay attention to stories about the benefits of receiving HPV vaccines; and think about the information you have seen about HPV vaccines
Dramatic Relief:
Be scared you could get cervical cancer from HPV; be disturbed knowing you could get HPV; be scared you could get genital warts from HPV; and be scared that people can spread HPV without knowing it.
Environmental Reevaluation:
Think about how getting vaccinated makes your social environment safer; think about how getting vaccinated reduces the spread of HPV; think about how getting vaccinated makes your sexual relationship(s) safer; and consider the healthy example you are setting for others by getting vaccinated.
Self Reevaluation:
Feel empowered knowing you can protect yourself from HPV; feel you would be doing something good for yourself by getting the HPV vaccine; feel you would be more comfortable sexually if you got the HPV vaccine; and think about how getting the HPV vaccine makes you healthier.
Social Liberation:
Feel that society has made the HPV vaccine readily available; recognize that people support you getting the vaccine; believe society is making HPV vaccination a priority; and notice that many people your age have chosen to be vaccinated.
Counter Conditioning:
When having second thoughts about getting vaccinated, remind yourself that you will be helping to stop the spread of HPV; find ways to feel good when others question your decision to get vaccinated; remind yourself of the benefits of HPV vaccines when you are having second thoughts about your decision; and remind yourself that vaccination is safe when you are afraid of being vaccinated.
Stimulus Control:
Keep information around you to remind you of the reasons to be vaccinated; use reminders in your calendar or planner so you remember to get the shots; make efforts to schedule appointments to get your shots at a convenient time; and arrange to receive reminders from your provider for your HPV vaccination appointments.
Helping Relationships:
Talk to your healthcare provider about the HPV vaccine; have a person in your life you can count on to discuss HPV vaccination with; have at least one person you can be open with about your decision to get the vaccine; and seek out others who support your decision to get the HPV vaccine.
Reinforcement Management:
Feel personally rewarded for getting the vaccine; remind yourself that HPV cancer prevention is a big reward for getting vaccinated; reward yourself when you take steps towards getting vaccinated; and have people in your life who make you feel good about getting vaccinated.
Self Liberation:
Feel you have control over getting the full series of vaccinations; remind yourself that getting vaccinated is YOUR choice; feel committed to keeping yourself healthy by getting vaccinated; and tell yourself you can follow-up with your commitment to get all three shots.
How many of these statements have crossed your mind, or your daughter’s mind? Think about all of the information about HPV vaccines you were exposed to before you had these thoughts. How much of your HPV vaccine decision was a result of planned psychological manipulation?
Whether HPV vaccines are a good health choice or not appears to be irrelevant to those promoting their use. The only goal seems to be HPV vaccine compliance! Apparently those promoting HPV vaccines will utilize whatever means necessary to achieve that goal.
One question remains – If HPV vaccines are so great, why are such extensive psychological manipulations necessary?
Think about it – if HPV vaccines were actually Safe, Affordable, Necessary and Effective – there would be no need to ‘create’ a demand for them!
Cervarix changed my life: now I would never be able to manage the sort of day I took in my stride as a thirteen year old. I can’t even remember what a day with energy feels like.
Before receiving the HPV vaccine at 14, I was an active, mostly healthy child. As we lived some distance away from my school, I had fairly long days: I would leave the house at 7.30 am and return at 5.30 pm, but always came back with lots of energy. I enjoyed walking, swimming, horseback riding etc. after school. No matter how long my day was, I certainly never experienced the complete exhaustion I felt after the Cervarix vaccine.
The difference in energy was particularly noticeable because it happened immediately. The day I got the first HPV vaccination Cervarix, on the 28th September 2009, I came home feeling sick and incredibly tired and had to go straight to bed. The next day at school was a struggle because I felt nauseous and so low on energy, and once again I ‘crashed’ when I got home and had to go straight to sleep.
This happened every day for a week or so. My mum rang up the local health service to talk to them, but they said this wasn’t a possible side effect of the vaccine and there was no way of registering any side effects.
Eventually mum managed to get through to a central line where she could register the nausea and fatigue I was experiencing. They also told her it wasn’t a known side effect of Cervarix and claimed there was no connection.
The same symptoms happened after the other two injections of Cervarix (on 13th November 2009 and 24th April 2010) but each time it got worse. After the second vaccination I experienced the same sickness and exhaustion but it lasted for a fortnight.
After the third vaccination I honestly don’t think life was ever really ‘normal’ again. The fatigue became more and more constant. I struggled with low energy levels at school, would fall asleep at lunchtime and on the way home and often had to go to bed as soon as I got back.
The constant exhaustion became very limiting. I had to stop swimming which I had done at a competitive level and greatly enjoyed. I also had to turn down a World Challenge Trip to Kenya despite having started fundraising because I realized I simply would not have the energy to walk each day. My fatigue now is sometimes completely debilitating and I spend much of my time in bed. I have become used to having to turn opportunities down because of it.
Not long after the third injection, the chest pain started. The first time it happened I was in a class at school and suddenly got a crushing pressure and pain on my left side. I felt faint and dizzy and was in so much pain I could barely talk.
I ended up going to a local A&E where they did an ECG and found that I had a very fast and slightly abnormal heart-rate accompanying the pain and so I was transferred by ambulance to Torbay Hospital. The pain eventually subsided and further ECGs came back normal and so I was discharged.
This was the start of an incredibly scary and difficult journey to getting diagnosed. I have experienced debilitating, severe and intermittent chest pain ever since. It has taken years and lots of time and energy to get a diagnosis.
The sickness and nausea is also something which started with the vaccine and has never really gone away. I spend most of the day feeling very queasy, sometimes to the point that I cannot eat anything. Despite trying many different anti-nausea medicines, I have yet to find one that works. I also started getting dizzy and fainting, particularly on standing or exertion, which has been very unpleasant and scary. Recently, my fainting has become significantly worse and now happens almost daily which is frightening and dangerous, and has led to several concussions.
Along with the horrible, debilitating symptoms of fatigue, nausea, chest pain, dizziness, fainting and gastrointestinal issues which are all linked, has come the struggle to get a diagnosis and adequate medical support.
I have been in and out of doctors’ appointments and hospitals since I was thirteen. There have been countless blood tests, ECGs and scans. Both my parents and I have had to spend so much time and energy researching and pushing for some help.
Despite the severity of my symptoms, they were initially dismissed as anxiety, then food intolerances, and later, because nothing was structurally wrong with my heart, the medical support became virtually non-existent and I was even told it was all in my head. One example of this treatment is when I went to a GP to ask for something to help with my frequent vomiting and was instead given the name of a book about ‘psychosomatic illness’. I can’t begin to describe how painful that is.
It was 4 years after my symptoms had started that I was finally put on a week-long heart monitor. This monitor picked up severe spikes in my heart rate. It showed times when my heart rate was quickly accelerating from 70 bpm to 180 bpm. These ‘spikes’ coincided with when I was experiencing chest pain or fainting. I was given a probable diagnosis of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) which has since been confirmed by a specialist in Derriford Hospital following further testing.
I am now nineteen years old and despite finally being on various medication to help manage my symptoms, I am severely limited by my ill-health. I have no energy and often had to miss lectures, supervisions, social events and various opportunities because I am either too fatigued, too faint, or in too much pain to participate. Recently my ill-health has forced me into the incredibly difficult decision to drop out of my second year at Cambridge University, because studying has become impossible.
I have gone from enjoying exercise and loving long walks on the moors to sometimes fainting after a short flight of stairs, being reliant on taxis, and having to spend much of my time in bed.
I have gone from being a normal teenager to a disabled one, and it seems to have all been triggered by the vaccine.
Since the Cervarix injections and since developing POTS I have lost count of how many times I have been in hospital, experienced severe chest pain, fainted, missed important opportunities, and been sick.
In fact, I have actually forgotten what having a healthy day feels like as I am never symptom-free anymore.
Saskia, I am so sorry you are going through this painful time. It is a shame that the medical establishment has let you down in so many ways and the psychosomatic illness suggestion just adds insult to injury. Just a lazy, weak cop-out. It is so much more pleasant when a doctor just admits when they do not know what is wrong.
I have good news for you, there are doctors that are experienced in this area, and will take you under their wing. Distance is not an issue in most instances. The team at SaneVax Inc. has wonderful contacts, and I have some as well within the Featured Doctors menu option on my blog. There are many others that have received relief and healing from Cervarix and Gardasil injuries.
I hope you are soon to be able to receive better care and to resume your studies at Cambridge University.
You can tell you are strong and patient, and I know that as you remember who you are, that you will continue to be guided on this healing path.
Here is a musical gift that I hope lifts your spirits at this time. My ten year-old daughter was watching me work and I asked her which musical group I should pick a song from. She felt this would be a good group. Hang in there, your friend jen.
