WorldNetDaily keeps up its dishonest and dangerous fringe anti-vaccine campaign against Gardasil with an Oct. 19 article by Joe Kovacs which carries the headline “U.S. girls just dropping dead.” It repeats WND’s previous scare tactics of highlighting adverse reactions to the Gardasil vaccine without offering any context of how they compare with other vaccines.
Kovacs claims that “26 additional deaths” were “caused by the shot” when, in fact, no such judgment has definitively been made — he’s merely regurgitating Judicial Watch’s attacks. In fact, Kovacs concedes later in the article that the Centers for Disease Control — an actual medical authority, unlike WND or Judicial Watch — has found no “no unusual pattern or clustering to the deaths” to suggest they were caused by the vaccine.
Kovacs also repeats the claim that one so-called “expert on Gardasil,” Christian Fiala, “claims the drug is not only dangerous, but actually useless in fighting cervical cancer” without mentioning that Fiala has been called “Austria’s most notorious abortionist” by one anti-abortion website.
WND is simply engaged in some very desperate fearmongering — and it’s veering far away from the facts with the intent to destroy a business. Maybe Merck should sue WND for defamation; if WND’s own lawsuit against Esquire magazine is a guide, Merck might win.