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Record W1891577007 · doi:10.1136/bmj.h5692

Canadian academic’s call for moratorium on HPV vaccine sparks controversy

2015· article· en· W1891577007 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Owen Dyer

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNewspaperMedicineFamily medicineGovernment (linguistics)DramaCervical cancerPolitical scienceVaccinationMedia studiesSociologyLawCancerVirologyInternal medicine

Abstract

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Canada’s human papillomavirus vaccination program should be halted immediately until its safety can be established, a researcher who has studied patient experiences of the vaccine under a government grant has said. Genevieve Rail, a professor of critical studies of health at Montreal’s Concordia University, has a $C273 359 (£135 000; €185 000; $208 000) grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for research entitled “HPV vaccination discourses, spaces and biopedagogies: Affects and effects on youth’s bodies and subjectivities.” She reports having gathered 170 families whose recounted stories indicate a heavy burden of vaccine injury. Writing in the Quebec daily newspaper Le Devoir , Rail and her coauthor Abby Lippman, a former professor in McGill University’s department of epidemiology, biostatistics, and occupational health, argued that the vaccine was given to schoolgirls without obtaining proper informed consent.1 They said that it had caused serious adverse events around the world, that Canada’s system of reporting was inadequate to detect problems, that it was a misplaced priority because cervical cancer was not a leading cause of death, that its efficacy was not proven, that it may even exacerbate precancerous lesions, and that it was fraudulently marketed and too hastily approved. “Across the world,” the authors wrote, “young vaccinated girls are the protagonists in a drama of which only the pharmaceutical companies know the …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.023
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.056
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.174
Threshold uncertainty score0.639

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0230.056
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0470.023
Scholarly communication0.0160.009
Open science0.0060.009
Research integrity0.0360.037
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0330.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations7
Published2015
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