Kildare-based GP becomes first doctor in Ireland to dispute a vaccine that prevents female cervical cancer

A GP based in Maynooth has issued a controversial view on a vaccine that is used to prevent cervical cancer among women in later life.

Maynooth GP Neville Wilson has spoken out against the Gardasil vaccine which is issued to teenage girls all over the world to prevent Human Papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease that can result in cervical cancer. The South-African-born doctor has suggested that the vaccine does not work, while also saying that symptoms such as lethargy are side-effects of Gardasil.

The World Health Organisation(WHO) has conducted studies on hundreds of thousands of girls worldwide that proves the advantages of Gardasil, while the Irish Cancer Society also recommend it, but Dr Wilson believes that they are all wrong and that there is a global conspiracy at work.

"Long term predictions of cancer prevention, or prevention of deaths from cancer, based on surrogate marker extrapolations are not scientifically valid, and cannot be made with any certainty," he wrote on his medical blog.

"I don't trust the WHO as far as I could throw them, to be quite honest," he added. When asked if all of the health organisations were conspiring with each other. "There is no question in my mind about that," he said.

Recently, Dr Wilson has said that he fully supports the views of disgrace British doctor Andrew Wakefield, who was stripped of his medical licence due to his misconduct and research which stated that the MMR vaccine was linked to autism.