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by logicchains 1143 days ago
>What are you talking about? HPV is by far the simplest, cheapest and safest method of preventing a HPV induced cervix and throat cancer for a few decades already.

There is no evidence for it preventing any kind of cancer, not a single study supporting it. The HPV trial clinical only showed reduced incidence of the HPV strains the virus targets, over a short observation window. I.e. the same kind of study that showed the covid vaccines as 90%+ effective, when in fact far more than 10% of the vaccinated population ended up catching covid.

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They were effective against the strains circulating at the time. They probably also helped protect against hospitalization and death even in those that caught it.
You are correct, to the extent I investigated they is no hard evidence for _any_ vaccine working. Somehow things are manipulated to give the appearance of it being effective. Example: In the Pfizer COVID vaccine trials both placebo and vaccine groups fell ill at the same rate, however since the placebo group group showed more COVID positives in the PCR test ( a dubious test), they arrived at the 95% effectiveness rate. The way 95% was calculated is also a complete travesty of commonsense. At this point I'm not even sure if any data is real, or completely made up. If I recollect in flu vaccine trails they check for antibodies in the participants, not actual incidence of the flu.