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4. Medical science readily admits that the vaccine will injure (and kill) some people.

There's nothing really questionable about this. Some people get sick and injured from vaccines. Some people die from vaccines. So long as the number of people they are killing is substantially smaller than the number that would die without them, they're considered a benefit to society.

In the reported quarters of this year alone, more than 20 people have died after taking a flu shot. Those are confirmed deaths, caused by the flu shot itself. You don't hear about it because the FDA has decided that those numbers are acceptable...the annual death toll from the flu would increase by THOUSANDS if the shot weren't readily available. Their deaths are an acceptable compromise for the lives they save.

This isn't a good thing or a bad thing, it's just the way it works. All vaccines have a small number of casualties, and we shouldn't mock them or disparage them for being unfortunate enough to be that "one patient in a million" who suffers them. Compensate them (or their families) richly and move on.

By the way, the official FDA, CDC and Merck numbers say that Gardisil averages 1 death per million doses administered, and 1 out of every 30,000 will suffer serious medical complications requiring additional treatment. These numbers are considered to be consistent with other vaccines and background accidental death rates, so they aren't seen as a problem.

Look at it this way: The odds of you being killed by a lightning strike are TWICE as high as the odds that you'll be killed by Gardisil, so it's relatively safe. As safe as it is though, we have to acknowledge the fact that people do die from lightning strikes every year (it's like winning the lottery, the odds that you'll win are nearly zero, but someone always wins).