Air America/Al en Shilling for Pharma, HPV

[Guest guest]

Has anyone else notice the kneejerk support of the Human papilloma

virus on Air America and and other liberal media outlets? Part of it

is just an expected reaction to the opposition to HPV expressed by

rightwing religious organization. Thoughtless, but some what

understandable. But what is really disturbing is to hear people who

would otherwise savage the Bush administration accept at face value

that the safety and effecicacy studies performed by Merck and approved

by a completely politicized FDA and CDC. Today Al en attacked the

ACIP (the Advisory Committe of Immunixzation Practice, the fderal

board which decisdes which vaccines get added to the recommended

schedule, which provides immunity from liability and an almost

guaranteed market for any vaccine)for being politicized because

the " consumer " rep on the board is an associate of Dobson's Focus of

the Family. A rep by the way who has never voted against any vaccine

including those made with human fetal tissue.

So let me get this straight. Al en thinks that a conservative

Christian will swing the ACIP vote but the lure of no liability and

millions of girls being required to take a $360 shot is not going to

influence a decison of the this CDC? He's either an idioit, on the

take or both.

Air America has clearly adopted a policy of shilling for big Pharma.

I listen pretty regularly to Al en's liberal talk radio network

and I have been struck by the complete abscence of any discussions of

drug safety, pharmaceutical company profits the abject taodying to

pharma that motivated medicare part d, a complete absence of our

issues oh AL en's show and a good number of ads from Glaxo, Merck

and Novartis on Air AMerica, which are about the only large corporate

sponsors I have ever heard advertise on Air America