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In reply to the discussion: The world must accept that the HPV vaccine is safe [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)61. You realize that Merck makes much more money treating a single case of cancer
than thousands of vaccines, right?
So if it's all about profit, why are they pushing the much lower profit route?
Give the vaccine to boys. They're the ones who spread that shit.
First, the vaccine is recommended for both genders now. Since men don't get sick from HPV, there had to be further study on the vaccine's safety before risk/reward was high enough to recommend it for boys.
Second, where do you think heterosexual boys get HPV? Hint: It isn't from masturbation.
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so we should require vacs for diseases not spread through casual contact?
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#38
Just don't try to get your kids into public schools without their vaccinations.
longship
Dec 2015
#190
" thst doesn't mean i support a mandated vaccine... for a disease not casually spread. "
zigby
Dec 2015
#198
and people are free to get the vaccine if they want to protect themselves in case of crime
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#200
This is exactly the kind of nonsense that drives some people toward the right.
WillowTree
Dec 2015
#205
The disease that we're talking about here is not spread through casual contact.
WillowTree
Dec 2015
#305
It seems it does. You appear to have a problem with vaccinations against sexually transmitted
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2015
#322
Would you be in favor of the state marching into your home, holding you down and forcing
MADem
Dec 2015
#264
Wonderful--pay your five hundred dollars and take the shot, then. Encourage others to do it, too.
MADem
Dec 2015
#116
i must agree. if it was about public good and not profit, it wouldnt bring a profit. nt.
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#181
More to the point, the damn thing is now included in the ACA, which the poster doesn't mention.
MADem
Dec 2015
#262
Yes, they are, and they should be given to children when parents, in consultation with their doctors
MADem
Dec 2015
#235
Yes, I have. If it was so "not worth discussion" why do you keep crying at me because
MADem
Dec 2015
#258
Here--let's UNCOMPLICATE it....let's take you, and the state, out of the equation.
MADem
Dec 2015
#266
Retiring NVICP Special Master Denise Vowell modulated her convoluted legal decisions over 6 years.
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2015
#304
Every part of your post is false. That's on every level, incidentally. (nt)
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2015
#319
i think i found it on bing images but here is an article with the info in text form
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#13
because if i am not going to get it by someone sneezing on me in a classroom,
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#70
It says that you have libertarian tendencies. Who knows if your username is an ironic joke?
xocet
Dec 2015
#297
That definition has not a single thing to do with your self-purported support of science. Try again.
xocet
Dec 2015
#303
They should all be required, even when you think girls don't do that kind of thing. (nt)
jeff47
Dec 2015
#167
It is not ethical to withhold those vaccines, and leave people unprotected at that point in life.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#36
If your kid is going to school with everyone else, no, it's not just up to the parent.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#51
And to protect children. Rather like car seat requirements. Are you against those too.
uppityperson
Dec 2015
#72
It isn't propaganda, it's a fact. The vaccine only works for 70% of the viruses.
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#110
Two out of three ain't bad for gambling, but not for making health decisions. I agree w/you. nt
MADem
Dec 2015
#49
That makes no sense, how is reducing risk by about 70% a bad medical decision? n/t
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#75
What woman isn't going to get regular pap smears and examinations with the use of vaccines, that...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#125
This is why more research needs to be done. And why people at risk for a blood clot
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#130
If no causal link is established, what then? What will be your next objection? Because it sounds...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#140
But HIV is most often no longer fatal either, with the right cocktail of anti-virals you can live...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#149
When that mythical vaccine is developed, I would want to know what the safety data
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#152
How many years are acceptable to you for such a study, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#160
It's not the years that matters. It's how studies are conducted and how many subjects are studied.
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#164
70% of women don't get cervical cancer!!!! In the vast majority of HPV exposures, the virus
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#129
Yeah...Using shorthand because this is a message board and not a scientific journal.
jeff47
Dec 2015
#132
Are you talking to yourself? Because everything you say applies to YOUR contributions here,
MADem
Dec 2015
#274
So now we should remove it from the US schedule because other countries haven't caught up?
jeff47
Dec 2015
#131
If these anti-vax nutters were in charge of public health back in the middle of the last century...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#79
Young women's bodies spontaneously rid themselves of HPV and that's who's marketed to.
KittyWampus
Dec 2015
#124
It's a vaccine for some of the causes of some of the precursors for some cervical cancers
Recursion
Dec 2015
#187
Oh, stop bringing adult, nuanced points to a discussion that is determined to demonize some
MADem
Dec 2015
#211
Hey, pious one, do you have any idea how much time, effort, and money I dedicate to vaccinations?
Recursion
Dec 2015
#225
Actually, I had no idea that the DU anti-V crowd would be so vehement in this era.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#207
DU, we have a problem. Anti-vaccine members continue to dominate many threads.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#238
It's the title of the piece in the OP. And that's not an excuse for anti-vaccine nonsense.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#309
Exactly, and yet many people think they can just make it up as they go along...
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#284
'You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.'
Liberal Veteran
Dec 2015
#313