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Investigations
Built to Find Nothing: Merck Tested Gardasil's Safety Against Its Own Aluminum Adjuvant
In ten of eleven pivotal trials, Merck's Gardasil 'placebo' was 225 micrograms of the same aluminum adjuvant that is in the vaccine, and serious harms counted only inside a 14-day window.
InvestigationsThe WHO Invented Osteopenia for Statisticians. Merck Turned It Into 34 Million Patients.
The man who chaired the 1992 WHO meeting says they never imagined osteopenia would be treated as a disease. Three years later Merck launched Fosamax and started putting bone scanners in doctors' offices.