(OT)$2 million grant to study Gardasil

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My apologies in advance, in case this thing posts twice, but I feel a need to share this absurd oddity.

A $2-million grant to study WHAT???

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa have been awarded a $2 million grant to study Gardasil.

They will try to determine how often doctors recommend the vaccine used to protect against HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer. The study will last until 2012.

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You would think that grant money could better go towards studying the SAFETY of Gardasil or its LONG-TERM effects, not how often doctors recommend it. But, NO!! This sounds more like a marketing study for Merck, to me, anyway. Guess who is footing the bill for this study? Merck? NO!! YOU FOLKS ARE!! ("federal financing") Do you really want to see your government's funds being spent on studies of this ilk?

Moffitt wins federal financing for HPV study

http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/08/25/daily7.html

Aasa

Good grief! These guys find all sorts ways to bamboozle the sheeple, and then make them think it's for their own good! How pathetic