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To: TChris
Yep, and cancer will do that WAY more often than a vaccine will.

Flawed thinking, pal. You only die once, so cancer will not kill any one person any more often than anything else.

But a vaccine can't kill you if you don't get it (probability=zero).

Let me put it another way, since the onset of the disease is behaviourally controlled, first, and controlled by whether the person the behaviour is engaged in with has the disease, second.

Let's take a parallel. Let's say there was a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. The vaccine "only" killed 50 of every 100,000 people who got it. Would you get the vaccine? Would you support making the vaccine mandatory for premenstrual girls, prepubescent children, adults, anyone?

83 posted on 08/26/2009 11:48:48 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Let's say there was a vaccine for HIV/AIDS. The vaccine "only" killed 50 of every 100,000 people who got it. Would you get the vaccine? Would you support making the vaccine mandatory for premenstrual girls, prepubescent children, adults, anyone?

Huh? What does a made-up "let's say" scenario have to do with anything?

Let's say that FReeping made your arms fall off. Would you ever encourage your friends to do it??? WOULD YOU???

Pfffft.

The FACT is that Gardasil may have killed as many as 20 out of 16 MILLION. Every medication can cause death, depending on the circumstances. I don't believe these figures are out of line.

Cars kill thousands every day, yet you still drive one. There's a benefit that outweighs the risk.

It is obvious that Gardisil provides a benefit that FAR outweighs the risks involved. I will absolutely make sure my daughter is vaccinated when she's older.

84 posted on 08/27/2009 6:40:11 AM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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