Cervical vaccine: let’s have an honest debate first

WHEN I was serving as an MEP on the committee responsible for public health, I received a great deal of glossy, well-produced literature, invitations to free lunches and dinners and even an offer of an all-expenses-paid trip to America to convince me to support the so-called cervical cancer vaccine.

Though I did not accept the invitations, the lavish nature and sheer persistence of the drug company-funded lobbying caused me to do my own research on the vaccine they were promoting.

What I discovered made me very concerned.