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  • 2016-01-19 (xsd:date)
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  • FALSE: Pediatricians' Association Admits HPV Vaccine-Cancer Link (en)
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  • On 28 January 2016, the web site Truth Kings published an article under the headline Pediatricians Association Admits HPV Vaccine Causes Ovarian Failure. As with many similar shocking medical truth items, the article's headline wasn't supported by the text of the article itself, which linked to entirely unrelated medical information as support for the headline's proclamation: Clicking through on on the hyperlinked word here led to the web site of the American College of Pediatricians, not the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which is the mainstream organization for that particular medical specialty. A 31 July 2005 Boston Globe article reported on the difference between the two groups: In other words, the American College of Pediatricians is a very small, recently-formed group created in response to a political disagreement over same-sex parenting, whose focus is promoting parenting by married, heterosexual couples: By contrast, the American Academy of Pediatrics' mission statement is more concise about their focus of addressing the health needs of children: With respect to the Gardasil vaccine, the prevailing science-based medical viewpoint of it issued by the AAP is as follows: The AAP's official policy statement on Gardasil can be read in full here. Organizational scope and purpose aside, the article in question published by the American College of Pediatricians was titled New Concerns about the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine. However, that article didn't admit that the vaccine caused cervical cancer (a finding that would be considered newsworthy and widely reported); in fact, the article stated in its opening paragraph that: Portions of the article that were critical or cautious about Gardasil pertained not to cancer, but to ovarian dysfunction. That term is broad and is most frequently associated with conditions such as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, or PCOS. And even that caution was expressed as a call for more data, rather than as documentation of specific cause-and-effect relationship between Gardasil and ovarian dysfunction: Prior to their January 2016 statement, the American College of Pediatricians had released a single policy statement on Gardasil. While the AAP focused on the benefits and safety aspects of the vaccine, the ACP's statement espoused a more morality-focused viewpoint. Nonetheless, the ACP's policy statement still favored Gardasil vaccination over abstention: In short, Truth Kings' alarmist revelation about Gardasil came not from the long-esablished American Academy of Pediatrics, but from a politically-focused breakaway organization devoted to supporting specific moral stances. Even then, that latter organization didn't take an initial stand against Gardasil, and their January 2016 policy statement merely called for further study about a potential connection between Gardasil and ovarian dysfunction. The word cancer did not appear a single time in that release, nor was the organization admitting anything by any stretch of the imagination. Moreover, Truth Kings' appended image was simply a stock photograph unrelated to Gardasil. Finally, the American College of Pediatricians acknowledged there is no strong evidence of a causal relationship between HPV4 and ovarian dysfunction and stopped well short of rescinding their previous advice on HPV vaccination in their concluding remarks: (en)
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