Conservatives do not want to pay for this vaccine, anyone is free to get the vaccine, we just do not desire to pay for this.
This is not a cancer vaccine.
George Sawaya, a gynaecologist at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco, notes that the trial still has another year to run. Surprises often appear late on in such studies and Sawaya says he thinks the CDC should have waited until all the data was available before taking a stance on the vaccine.
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Public health experts are also divided, though. Some question whether the relatively small numbers of lives that would be saved are justified by the significant cost of a vaccine programme. Merck will charge around $360 for the three-doses needed.
The “scientists” at newscientist.com can’t even get the basics on this topic correct.
The Merck vaccine is NOT a “cancer vaccine.”
It is a vaccine dealing with a specific virus
and NOT a “cancer vaccine” as their headline states.
Bogus statistics, clever marketing, and a great big rip-off!
If you research the full statistics, you’ll see that most cases of HPV-caused cervical cancer are caused by strains of HPV that Gardasil doesn’t even protect against!
This is not a vaccine against all, nor even MOST of the strains that cause cervical cancer. It’s a very expensive vaccine that only offers protection from a few strains of the virus.
I just don’t understand the entitlement mentality that requires taxpayers to fund birth control, abortion and now this virus vaccine.
When I was younger and I wanted birth control, I waited till I was working and could afford whatever I needed myself. I wouldn’t think of asking my parents (who would have kicked my sorry rear to the curb) or trying to get these things from government entitlement.
In my view, if you are going to have sex before marriage or whatever it is you are doing, it should be up to you to buy yourself whatever protection you need. If you can’t afford it, then keep your pants zipped.
Is drug industry giant Merck placing articles in the “New Scientist” now?
This is a rather thorny issue, isn’t it? The Federal Government is too blunt an instrument to insert it routinely into our daily lives.
Of course the media distorts the real problem. It isn't that conservatives are blocking the vaccine, they do not want it to be mandatory. The only way to transmit HPV is through sexual contact. If you feel that you are not a ho, then you might not want to be forced to pay $360 for something you don't need.
I have to say "tsk-tsk-tsk" at Merck for this one as well. With Zocor's patent expired and Fosamax's patent ending in February, they are needing ways to keep there revenue high. Nothing like government mandated purchases to secure revenue.
It’s not a cancer vaccine, it’s a slut vaccine. This is telling girls as young as 10, 11, 12, 13 that they can get laid without fear of getting this sexually transmitted form of cancer. It’s a vaccine that, like abortion, is a way of negating personal responsibility.
Well, there is one thing that works better than this friggin liberal invented shot. ABSTINANCE!!! As with pregnancy and all other STDs, abstinance is 100% effective, and there is no shot required. As far as I’m concerned, any girl that young that’s sleepnig around, if she gets that cancer, she can blame herself and the guy that gave i to her. We don’t need more ways to flaunt morality and personal responsibility. The whole concept of this shot makes me want to puke.
Wow, TWO outright lies in a single headline! The media are really outdoing themselves.
If parents what their little girls to get the vaccine, let them go to their own doctor for it, and keep the government out of it.
It's high cost makes it's widespread use questionable. So, they went to a full court press publicity campaign aided by gullible lefties to try to get the states to pay for it and mandate it, which would be a huge profit at the public expense. People are catching on, but not the maroon who wrote this article.
The cost to taxpayers will be billions nationwide. And the vaccine covers only 4 out of almost 30 strains of the virus. My concern is that this drug has not been tested long-term and I don't want our children to be used as guinea pigs for the drug companies.
why do we need to mandate a vacine for a secual behavior disease? Could it be the lobbyists for the drug maker are pushing this to deal with the fact the pap test is not profitable enough?
I absolutely don’t agree with requiring anybody to get this vaccine, but it’s just idiocy to argue against it on the basis it will cause rampant promiscuity.