Cervical cancer: and the case of the killer jab.

Read this article from the BBC website.

I am going to rip this article to shreds, much like I am currently devouring this rather delicious apple.

Basically, this article falls afoul of what I talked about in my blog post here.

The media does not understand causation. In other words, they will look at an outcome, such as in this case a teenage girl dying, and come to a conclusion perhaps a tad too quickly. They jump the gun, as it were - and this can have pretty silly consequences.

Take this hypothetical example. A man is hit by a train after tripping over his shoe laces. The logical conclusion is that he should have simply done his shoe laces up, the medias conclusion would just as likely be "long shoe laces prove fatal" or "govermnent urged to ban (long) shoelaces". In other words, the media would not realise that maybe the person was at fault some how.

Let's put this into context, This girl who died could well have died as a direct result of the jab. But she could just as likely have died due to underlying health problems being exacerbated by the jab, or it could quite possibly have been something causes coincidence. I don't think the media understands the term "coincidence" very well - but that's for another rant on another day.

Anyways, scientific trials for new drugs are nowadays incredibly pedantic. Nothing is kept to chance. Some people jump on the Thalidomide bandwagon and that drugs are never safe, but that drug was before drugs were tested on animals first and before all the rigorous safety guidelines.

Still not convinced?

There have currently been over 1,400,000 doses of the cervical cancer vaccination. Of that just over 4,600 reactions have been logged.

Out of the 1,400,000+ jabs. 1 person has died. By my hasty calculations, that's a piddly 0.0000007%.

Bad jab? Not a chance. Bad batch? Maybe. Bad health of person? Probably.

The media "doing it wrong"? Obviously.

Just another case of the individual not being accountable at all...god damn "injury lawyers 4 you"...