Merck Pushed Gardasil Vaccine – Why The HPV Shot Is So Dangerous

Original Article by Dr. Joseph Mercola

Gardasil proved to be extremely dangerous, yet both Merck and the FDA ignored the alarming data and continued promoting it, even as it resulted in unprecedented injuries, including autoimmunity, POTS, infertility and death.

Story at a glance:

• Two decades ago, Merck introduced Vioxx, a profitable NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug), despite knowing it could cause numerous heart attacks. After facing overwhelming lawsuits and ultimately withdrawing Vioxx, Merck quickly pushed Gardasil, a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, to market to recover losses.
• Gardasil proved to be extremely dangerous, yet both Merck and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ignored the alarming data and continued promoting it, even as it resulted in unprecedented injuries, including autoimmunity, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), infertility and death. Notably, many of these issues mirror those associated with the COVID-19 vaccines.
• This article examines the dangers of the HPV vaccine, the reasons behind its risks — including its tendency to cause rather than prevent cervical cancer — and the extensive negligence of the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These lessons are crucial for understanding the events surrounding COVID-19.

Prior to COVID-19, I considered Gardasil (for HPV) to be the most dangerous and unjustifiable vaccine on the market.

It’s truly remarkable how many parallels can be found between it and the COVID-19 vaccines, so I feel it’s critically important for this already-forgotten story to be told.

Help pay for Vioxx (HPV)

The default strategy in medicine for any type of pain or injury is to throw NSAIDs at it — making the drugs immensely profitable.

Unfortunately, they typically don’t help that much (which actually increases their sales since patients then need more of them), and they are fairly dangerous (e.g., NSAIDs kill tens of thousands of Americans each year and seriously injure far more — which is unfortunate since DMSO safely and effectively treats all the conditions NSAIDs are used for).

To create a new market, NSAIDs like Vioxx were created that were supposed to be safer … but actually had a huge stroke and heart attack risk (that Dr. Mercola warned the public about in 1999).

However, despite evidence of harm continuing to mount, Merck and the FDA kept on covering it up, and when the drug was finally pulled, Vioxx was estimated to have killed 120,000 people.

Sadly, as the FDA scientist who fought to get it off the market testified, this is business as usual, and another Vioxx disaster was inevitable.

In 2004, the FDA official who got Vioxx pulled perfectly described the gross regulatory failure with the COVID vaccines. His must-see testimony exposes the FDA's pay-to-play environment that let's dangerous drugs sail through and never be withdrawn. A🧵 pic.twitter.com/GgDhIiqoTV

— A Midwestern Doctor (@MidwesternDoc) October 22, 2024

Merck eventually had to pay a $4.85 billion Vioxx settlement (while the CEO received a $37.8 million “performance-based” bonus), leading Merck short of funds.

This was solved by the decades of research finally yielding an HPV vaccine, which Merck (and the FDA) immediately went to work marketing through an “award-winning” advertising blitz that convinced every American they needed to be scared to death of cervical cancer (a fairly rare cancer).

This is part of the "award winning" campaign Merck used to convince the world we were at a grave risk of dying from cervical cancer (they weren't) and that their costly vaccine would prevent it (it still hasn't)
So many girls and parents I knew at the time were terrified of HPV pic.twitter.com/ljpPA6cDCf

— A Midwestern Doctor (@MidwesternDoc) October 22, 2024

It worked, with 25.1% of adolescent girls getting Gardasil in 2007, 53.8% by 2011, and by 2023, 79.3%.

It was one of the most expensive vaccines on the market and quickly became a leading source of revenue for Merck (e.g., $1.87 billion in 2023).

However, due to its cost (like the COVID-19 vaccine), it required hefty government subsidies which included cash prizes to get the vaccine and grants worth $40 million by the U.S. Department for Human and Health Services for developing the most effective sales script doctors could use to push the vaccine on “hesitant” patients.

Note: Because of its high cost, it frequently requires state or federal financial support for doctors to offer it (just like COVID-19).

Is Gardasil effective?

The reason Merck had to aggressively market the fear of cervical cancer was that it was much less of a danger than it had been in the past, as it had largely been eliminated by pap smears.

Furthermore, its benefit for cervical cancer was entirely theoretical (Merck even convinced the FDA “studying cancer itself isn’t feasible, because it takes too long and it disadvantages too many women”) and despite 80% of women getting it, it still has not reduced cervical cancer:

Gardasil’s marketing also overshadowed the other two major risk factors for cervical cancer — smoking and birth control pills — which have largely been overshadowed by the focus on HPV. Remarkably, the decline in smoking perfectly mirrors the decline in cervical cancer deaths.

Disease provocation

Vaccines place the body under stress and divert the immune response to address the vaccine’s stimulus.

If the immune system is already attempting to contain another infection, this can be quite problematic and allow the existing infection to spiral out of control. This phenomenon has been known since 1893 and repeatedly demonstrated with many different infections (e.g., polio and typhus).

In turn, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen people around me get the flu after receiving a flu shot, and during COVID-19, severe cases of COVID-19 often followed receiving the vaccine.

The HPV vaccine also does this, with many reports of individuals developing or worsening HPV-related infections, including genital warts, and Gardasil’s trial data showing it made existing infections more likely to become cancerous:

Note: An identical effect was also found with GlaxoSmithKline’s competing HPV vaccine.

Despite these concerns, prescreening for HPV before vaccination isn’t recommended. Instead, the “solution” has been to lower the age of vaccination.

DNA contamination

Thus far, I’ve argued that the reasons vaccines can make you “become sick” is because they weaken the immune system and make you more susceptible to catching the actual infection or having an already existing infection spiral out of control.

While I believe that is the primary issue, there is also another problem — manufacturing vaccines is an inherently dirty process.

Because of this contaminated “hot” lots will inevitably get released that sicken or kill many (a recurring problem that was ultimately “solved” by the government giving legal immunity to the manufacturers).

Producing genetically modified vaccines (e.g., Gardasil) requires synthetic DNA (plasmids) that frequently aren’t filtered out of the final product (e.g., this is a recurring issue with hot vaccine lots).

Worse still, those plasmids tend to be mixed with adjuvants that bring them into the cells and contain a dangerous part of the SV40 virus which draws them into the nucleus, allowing them to integrate into the human genome (e.g., this has been demonstrated with the COVID-19 vaccines).