Yeah, prove a negative, bitches! What a fucktard.
Judah On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:343005 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
