Does the HPV cause cervical cancer? I was watching this video featuring Robert Scott Bell. It is about the flu vaccine being ineffective, but he makes this quick statement about the human papillomavirus (HPV): > If we can't vaccinate you for the flu how about we vaccinate you for the human papillomavirus that we claim causes cervical cancer 20 or 30 years down the road, which is also another _lie_ : It's an official story there to protect the official profits of Big Pharma. [Transcribed by me starting at 40 seconds in] He seems to be claiming that the HPV does not cause cervical cancer at all. He calls it a _lie_. What are the studies that show the HPV does cause cervical cancer? Are they _lies_ , inflated or exaggerated or are they credible? * * * I was thinking that it is possible that he was saying that the vaccine for HPV is ineffective but I don't think so.

In this paper: Human papillomavirus is a necessary cause of invasive cervical cancer worldwide the authors analysed samples which had previously tested negative for HPV with more advanced methods and found them positive, raising the rate (of HPV in cervical cancers) from 93% to 99.7%.

They state in the abstract that:

> Combining the data from this and the previous study and excluding inadequate specimens, the worldwide HPV prevalence in cervical carcinomas is 99·7 per cent. **The presence of HPV in virtually all cervical cancers** implies the highest worldwide attributable fraction so far reported for a specific cause of any major human cancer.

This means that nearly all cervical cancer cells contain HPV DNA. I don't know if any studies have been done to infect animals with an HPV equivalent to see if they develop cervical cancer. But a correlation of 100% is pretty compelling evidence by itself.