I believe this paragraph to be deceitful based on the following analysis:

The first sentence, "Several papers have also been published pertaining to the finding of HPV L1 gene DNA fragments in clinical specimens following HPV vaccination [13, 14]" was apparently constructed for dissembling and designed to mislead. The study in reference 13 [Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA. Death after Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination: Causal or Coincidental? Pharmaceut Reg Affairs 2012, S12:001] was about HPV L1 VLPs. The authors of reference 13 never mentioned HPV L1 gene DNA fragments at all. Dr. Pless knew the difference between HPV L1 VLPs and HPV L1 gene DNA fragments because in his February 18, 2014 email addressed to Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris and the others involved in this scheme, Dr. Pless specifically asked Dr. Petousis-Harris to address her "statement regarding the alleged role of aluminum binding to DNA fragments and subsequent effects." (see copy of February 18, 2014 email attached- It was not about HPV L1 VLPs). One cannot help but conclude that Dr. Pless intentionally put these two unrelated articles together and claimed that both articles studied HPV L1 gene DNA fragments in order to mislead the non-scientific readers and vaccination policy makers.

The second sentence, "These papers claimed an association with clinical events of an inflammatory nature, including cerebral vasculitis" is not true because the author in reference 14 (Lee, SH. Detection of human papillomavirus L1 gene DNA fragments in postmortem blood and spleen after Gardasil® vaccination—A case report. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 2012, 3, 1214-1224) never claimed clinical events of an inflammatory nature, including cerebral vasculitis. Dr. Pless in fact mis- states the author's words in this document apparently to create a target to attack.

When the facts don't fit – simply change them?

The purpose of Dr. Pless intentionally combining two unrelated studies and two unrelated chemicals shows up in the following sentence: "the finding of DNA fragments in the HPV vaccine and their postulated relationship to clinical symptoms, have been reviewed by panels of experts". Who were these panels of experts? Dr. Pless presented none of their names.

The sentence "Second, the case reports [13] of adverse events hypothesized to represent a causal association between the HPV L1 gene DNA fragments and death were flawed in both clinical and laboratory methodology [16]," is a blatant misrepresentation of the facts. The authors quoted in Reference #13 never presented any data on HPV L1 gene DNA fragments. Reference #16 never reviewed the potential harm of HPV L1 gene DNA fragments in the HPV vaccines when injected into humans.

A plea for help – and anyone will do?

The fact that Dr. Pless could not find any scientific reviews on the HPV L1 gene DNA fragments in HPV vaccines was illustrated in the email he sent to Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris on February 18, 2014 with the following plea for help:

"Thus the hypotheses raised in these papers are not supported by what is understood about the residual DNA fragments left over following vaccine production [17]".

Acknowledgement of Residual HPV DNA in Gardasil®

Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris, the author of Ref. 17, was the only writer brave enough to publicly claim "extremely small quantities of residual HPV DNA in the vaccine" to be harmless without any supportive data.

Who is Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris? Her qualification was disclosed in Dr. Pless' email dated February 18, 2014 as he wrote:

Accepting the assignment, Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris wrote back immediately on February 18, 2014 as follows:

Lack of Qualification/Credibility of Expert Witness Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris

Based on the above correspondence, Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris had no clue what Dr. Pless wanted her to address at the February 26, 2014 public hearing. She mistakenly assumed she was being asked to comment on "the VLP tightly bound to the adjuvant." She did not even know that VLP is a protein, and cannot be tightly bound to the aluminum adjuvant as the DNA molecules can.

Evidently, her only qualification was she had written a social media blog much like Professor David Gorski, a well-known online character assassin masquerading as a science defender whom she also recommended to the group saying:

"Prof David Gorsky has written prolifically on some of the experiments in his science blog over the past few years so I assume he has also given the material some thought."

I find it incredible that the WHO GACVS had to depend on online science blog writings as evidence to dismiss the potential risk of HPV DNA fragments in Gardasil®. As evidenced in the email above, on February 18, 2014, Dr. Pless knew very well that the CISA Network Technical Report dated November 2012 did not address the presence of HPV L1 gene DNA fragments in the vaccine Gardasil® because he wrote to Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris:

"...We are seeking your advice on someone who may be able to address the more detailed questions around HPV DNA - specifically the hypotheses you have address in your statement regarding the alleged role of aluminum binding to DNA fragments and subsequent effects. While the issue of whether the fragments constitute "contamination" has been dealt with, your statement was the only one to address the more obscure alleged consequences of the presence of those fragments...."

So, as of February 18, 2014 Dr. Pless and those whose names are listed on his email knew Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris and Professor David Gorski were the only two writers who had addressed the issue of HPV L1 gene DNA fragments in the HPV vaccine, but in social media blogs only, and not in peer- reviewed scientific journals. Dr. Pless needed to find someone to put a veneer of science over these online blogs. He found Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris for that.

Government Counter-Actions to Evidence of Harmful Effects of HPV Vaccination

The following emails showed the actions taken by the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan, the chair of the public hearing session, Dr. Pless and Dr. Melinda Wharton of the CDC to counter the plausible consequences of the presence of the HPV DNA fragments in the Gardasil® vaccines.

Based on the emails copied above, Dr Pless and those listed in these emails already drafted a GACVS statement before the public hearing. However, after having discussed to his boss, Dr. Nabae Koji wrote to the group on February 23, 2014 the following email:

In plain language, it appears that Dr. Nabae was instructing the WHO GACVS not to present any information formally in order to avoid cross-examination and scrutiny at the February 26, 2014 Public Hearing. Information provided after the public inquiry would provide a means for decision makers to be duly influenced by informal and cherry-picked 'expert' opinions.

I believe this maneuver was orchestrated by the Chairperson of the WHO GACVS and others as nothing more than a very cunning means of avoiding having to supply scientific evidence to decision makers. Actions like this corrupt the entire concept of science-based medicine.

Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris was finally selected as spokesperson for the February 26, 2014 Tokyo public hearing. But according to the emails uncovered, Dr. Petousis-Harris' Powerpoint slides had to be reviewed by the group before presentation at the public hearing to ensure she put forth the proper message.

I found it astonishing to read the February 25, 2014 email sent by Dr.Nabae Koji to Dr. Helen Petousis- Harris, their designated spokesperson. Dr. Nabae was concerned about Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris' Powerpoint slide which stated "immune activation on uptake of HPV vaccine does not include an increase in inflammatory factors (incl TNF) even in vaccinees with large injection site reactions at time of local inflammation" because such claim contradicted the data presented by another expert at their previous meeting which in fact confirmed that cytokines following vaccines increased particularly at injection site after Cervarix® compared to other vaccines (including tumor necrosis factor- TNF).

It is of interest to note that Dr. Nabae Koji also deleted some questionable "Japanese Wildcard" data from Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris' Powerpoint slides to be presented at the February 26, 2014 public hearing because he, Dr. Nabae, could not "explain it well".

GACVS Suppresses Vital Information and Manipulates Data to Support Claim of Vaccine Safety in the Face of Valid Contradictory Evidence

I find this to be yet another blatant example of suppression of information this group found to be potentially contradictory to and/or not totally compatible with their pre-determined GACVS "party line" statement on continued safety of HPV vaccination. Dr. Pless and the WHO officials seemed to have simply written a script for Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris to regurgitate at the public hearing and then proceeded to put forth the same presentation as an independent research reference to support their pre-determined GACVS statement. What an insult to the intelligence of the citizens of the world!

The Powerpoint slides Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris presented at the public hearing claimed Dr Lee's case report had no controls to prove that unvaccinated New Zealand teenage girls do not have HPV DNA in non-B conformations in their blood, therefore the findings are not scientifically valid. She said, "There are no controls used (unvaccinated). This is a vital part of the scientific process." [original emphasis.]

Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris evidently does not understand the difference between a case report and a clinical trial; nor does she seem to know how hard it is for pathologists to find any HPV DNA in blood samples of patients, even those known to have HPV infections, let alone HPV DNA in non-B conformations. This shows how little, if any, experience she has in laboratory medicine.

I find Dr Petousis-Harris blog1 which was quoted as Ref. 17 by Dr Pless in the GACVS statement in support of the declaration of HPV vaccination safety, to be more concerned with character assassination than in disputing the science of HPV L1 gene DNA fragments in Gardasil® or in postmortem materials.

The very important email exchange between Dr. Nabae and Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris on February 25, 2014, one day before the Tokyo public hearing, is copied in this correspondence so you can judge for yourself whether these people manipulated the scientific data and process in order to mislead the Japanese Expert Inquiry, and vaccination policy makers worldwide.

First, please note Dr. Dr. Nabae's concern about Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris' claim of no cytokine increases in HPV vaccinees, as expressed in the email dated February 25, 2014 shown below, which was apparently written after he had an opportunity to review her proposed powerpoint presentation.

[1 http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/media/2003295/response_to_theories_by_lee_and_shaw_final_180912.pdf]

Later in the morning apparently after a video conference Dr. Helen Petoussis Harris replied, asserting her scientific authority to comment as follows:

So Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris used her PhD thesis2 as authoritative research to support her theory of "No elevation of any cytokine associated with reactogenicity"?

In fact, her PhD thesis has not been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal because not only the experimental design and methodology used were highly questionable, as demonstrated in over 500 pages of Official Information documents and emails, but also in section 8.2 on limitations of this thesis, where Dr. Petousis-Harris states:

In Dr Helen Petousis-Harris' own words, "as many cytokines have localised activity it is possible that increased activity is not captured systemically." Nevertheless, Dr. Helen Petousis-Harris managed to satisfy Dr. Nabae that she only measured the cytokines in the serum and found no increase of cytokines after HPV vaccination and her data did not really contradict the findings presented by their

[2 https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/10600]

expert which confirmed increases in cytokines at the site of HPV vaccine injection. So both Dr. Nabae and Dr. Petousis-Harris decided to use "no increase in serum" as evidence for "No elevation of any cytokine associated with reactogenicity" as illustrated in the following email exchange.

In my opinion these emails clearly demonstrate that this group of WHO officials and government employees charged with the responsibility to advise the expert committee of the Japanese government on HPV vaccination safety knew before the February 26, 2014 Tokyo public hearing that one of their own experts showed scientific evidence that HPV vaccination does increase cytokines, including tumor necrosis factor (TNF), particularly at the injection site compared to other vaccines. Yet, they chose to suppress this information at the public hearing. Of course, this piece of scientific data which was known to all members of the group, including Dr Robert Pless, the chairperson of GACVS, is also missing from the GACVS Statement on the continued safety of HPV vaccination issued on March 12, 2014.

So why does HPV vaccination increase the level of cytokines, including TNF, at the site of injection compared to other vaccines?

The answer is: HPV vaccines contain HPV L1 gene DNA fragments, the viral DNA fragments, bound to aluminum adjuvants in the vaccines. To understand this, the members of the GACVS should keep up with the recent research and scientific publications on aluminum adjuvants. A brief summary on this subject with 22 key peer-reviewed references is presented as follows.

Use of Aluminum Adjuvant

Aluminum salts have been used as adjuvants in vaccination empirically to boost immune responses of the host to the protein antigens for many decades. However, the mechanism of the adjuvant effects of aluminum salts has only been recently investigated at the molecular level. It is now generally agreed in the scientific community that aluminum salts used as adjuvants are toxic and always damage the cells of the host at the site of injection, causing a localized inflammation at the vaccination site. This initial cell damage by the aluminum salt is an essential and necessary step to initiate its adjuvant effects because the free host DNA molecules released from the aluminum salt-damaged host cells act as mediators to trigger augmented immune responses of the host [1, 2]. The free DNA molecules of the dying host cells, also referred to as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) [3] bind the aluminum salt adjuvant at the site of injection, and the resulting DNA/aluminum complexes are phagocytized by the antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and macrophages. It was known as early as 2003, that when bound to aluminum salts as nanoparticles, free DNA molecules undergo dramatic conformational changes and can be introduced into mammalian cells as a means of gene transfection [4]. In vaccination with aluminum adjuvants, the transfected host DNA activates the pathways that would increase their ability to interact productively with antigen-specific CD4 T cells to boost host immune responses [1, 2].

Administration of recombinant TNF-α in animal models is known to cause hemodynamic changes and even death [11].

Injection of Gardasil® into animals has been shown to induce unusually early strong innate immune responses with quick releases of a variety of cytokines from the macrophages [12]. Injection of HPV DNA/AAHS complexes into the host is also known to induce a strong immune reaction and a strong CD8 T cell response [13]. Based on experiments with other viral DNA molecules, the recombinant HPV L1 gene DNA fragments transfected into human macrophages would also be recognized as "stranger" and "danger" signal, and invariably activate the macrophages to release numerous antiviral cytokines. Many of these cytokines, including TNF-α and IL-1β, are recognized myocardial depressants [14-18]. Hypotensive shock induced by TNF-α has been well documented among animals [19, 20] and humans [21, 22].

This brief review shows that there is a known molecular mechanism to explain why serious adverse reactions occur more often in people injected with HPV vaccines than with other vaccines, and why certain predisposed vaccinees may suffer a sudden unexpected death as the result of Gardasil® vaccination.

It is my opinion that Dr Pless, those whose names appeared in the emails attached to this complaint, and all who blindly dismiss the potential toxicity of the newly created HPV L1 gene DNA/AAHS compound in order to continue to promote HPV vaccinations should be held accountable for their actions. There is no excuse for intentionally ignoring the scientific evidence. There is no excuse for misleading global vaccination policy makers at the expense of public interest.

It is my contention these people have not only violated the Terms of Reference of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS); they have violated the public trust. Immediate, independent and thorough investigations into their actions with appropriate disciplinary action is the only option available that might restore the public's confidence in worldwide health authorities.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Sin Hang Lee, MD, F.R.C.P. (C), FCAP
Director
Milford Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
2044 Bridgeport Avenue, Milford, CT 06460 USA Email [email protected]

Attachments:

GACVS Terms of Reference
GACVS Statement on the continued safety of HPV vaccination on March 12, 2014 WHO GACVS emails from February 18, 2014 to February 27, 2014 in chronologic order Original FOIA -Attachment obtained in New Zealand

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