Given the history of this vaccine, if you, with true intellectual honesty, cannot understand WHY parents have concerns and questions, I don't know what else to say to you. You either profit from forceful marketing of this drug or you are "less ex Dem" than your name implies and you like the control aspect.
Well said.
I am more concerned with health outcomes than I am about how a person gets a disease. Since the majority of people posting here against the vaccine rationalize refusing to vaccinate their daughters on the basis that any woman who gets HPV related cancerous conditions deserves it--well, it's hard to interpret that as something other than misogyny.
The fact is that Merck, your pediatrician, and I all know and understand far more about this vaccine than you do. And the information about it that you find at the CDC is way more accurate than anything you'll find on an anti-vax site.
Given the history of this vaccine, if you, with true intellectual honesty, cannot understand WHY parents have concerns and questions, I don't know what else to say to you. You either profit from forceful marketing of this drug or you are "less ex Dem" than your name implies and you like the control aspect.
I try to dispel myths. I provide accurate information that parents can use to make an *informed* decision. The fact is that 75% of all people get some sort of HPV infection. The fact is that those HPV viruses sometimes insert their DNA into a chromosome, so that the virus becomes a permanent part of the infected tissues. The fact is that, depending on where the virus inserts itself in the host DNA, it can start an oncogenic process that leads to dysplasia and sometimes to cancer. The fact is that this vaccine was tested for years before its inventors collected sufficient data demonstrating its safety and efficacy to satisfy the FDA requirements, and they are still collecting data because the FDA requires it. The fact is that the moment this vaccine was approved, anti-vaxxers jumped all over it and started a disinformation campaign that continues to this day.
BTW, the stock accusation of all anti-vaxxers that anyone presenting accurate scientific information must be profiting from doing so is beyond stupid. If I were concerned about profit, I'd do everything I could to discourage vaccine use. There is a lot more profit in people getting sick and needing hospitalization, drugs, IV fluids, nursing care, etc., than there is in them staying well. According to the insurance company Aetna, it costs over $1,700 to stay one night in the hospital--you'd have to give 14 HPV vaccine series to get that much profit.