And in response, an Australian businessman has offered a challenge to Dr. Caplan.
http://sanevax.org/father-of-injured-gardasil-girl-matches-caplan's-bio-unethical-bet/ Dear Dr. Caplan I would like to offer you $10,000 to you to prove that Gardasil did not and does not cause the issues discussed by Ms. Bachman and others. Of course when I win, you might care to donate the monies to SANE Vax. However and unlike your gutless prove it by Thursday deadline I am happy to keep this offer open for a while. On a personal note I find it revolting that a bioethicist would engage in such a bet. Surely your responsibilities are to investigate, consider and approach this with an open mind. But I guess you have long since not been a real bioethicist and now are really a vaxapologist! One more question: will the $10,000 be sourced from your pockets or from the bioethics centre? As you know, but perhaps many others dont know, funding for the center comes from a range of sources including the NIH http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/funding.shtml, which as we say down-under has skin in the game by being a co-patent holder for Gardasil and receives royalties from its sale. A wee bit of conflict of interest and perhaps a challenge for you and your supposed ethics! Interesting that this was not disclosed by you! So Dr Caplan man up; disclose your conflicts and take up the challenge! Stephen Tunley Sydney Australia Father of Chescia Tunley yet another young woman damaged by Gardasil The ball is in your court now, Dr. Caplan. On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Larry Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > from: > http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/09/22/140714382/silence-from-rep-bachmann-as-vaccine-challenge-expires?ft=1&f=1001 > > Silence From Rep. Bachmann As Vaccine Challenge Expires > The high noon deadline for bioethicist Arthur Caplan's $10,000 challenge to Rep. Michele Bachmann has come and gone without a peep from the Republican presidential hopeful. But damage from her statement linking the HPV vaccine with mental retardation has already been done, Caplan says. > > As Shots reported last week, bioethicist Steven Miles first ponied up $1,000 to call Bachmann's bluff. Caplan, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, then raised the ante with $10,000 out of his own pocket. He asked Bachmann to produce a real person who has suffered mental retardation by the HPV vaccine. > > If she could do it, Caplan offered to donate the ten grand to Bachmann's charity of choice. If she failed, he suggested that Bachmann donate the same amount to a charity of his choice. No one from the Bachmann camp ever contacted Caplan accepting the challenge, according to the bioethicist. > > "Time is up," he said in a press conference today. > > > Over the past week, Caplan, who studies vaccine ethics, chastised Bachmann for her rumor- and fear-mongering of a vaccine that's used to prevent cervical cancer. Despite medical professionals refuting Bachmann's claim, Caplan wrote in a blog that he was still "worried that the stench of fear was going to linger around vaccines yet again." > > Miles concurred in an interview with NPR's Michele Norris. "What happened here was yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater," Miles said. "The claim is very important because women will make important health decisions based on the idea that mental retardation may be a side effect of this, which there's no evidence, so far, that it is." > > Why have concerns about the vaccine grown so disproportionate to the small safety hazards it actually presents? Because politicians occasionally use anecdotes and stories instead of facts, Caplan says. > > "Politicians shouldn't get away with hearsay," he said. "We need to hold candidates responsible for their sources." > > Caplan tells Shots that he's received a lot of e-mails supporting his challenge some people even offering money of their own and a few trying to disprove him. But no one has succeeded yet. > > And as one of millions watching the Republican Primary debate tonight, he'll be listening hard for more talk of vaccines. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343004 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
