The human body changes between the age of 9 and 25. A LOT.
Are you mad that they're attempting to save thousands of lives, or that they might make some money doing it?
They are fooling a great many women that they NEED this vaccine because they could contract a RARE disease.
Most drugs manufactured do not turn a profit, their production is subsidized by drugs such as Gardasil.
They sell a drug that will benefit less than 1%, to many who won't need it, to subsidize research? Yeah. That's honest. Why'd they rush it to market and lobby so hard to make it mandatory? Because GlaxoSmithKline and Roche have vaccines too but are testing them longer. Less MONEY for Merck if they beat Merck to market.
It's up to the individual to decide. I think people have the capacity to reach their own decisions. Since the claims made are accurate (the vaccine is 95% effective at preventing lesions from the types of HPV it targets, and these types of HPV do cause 70% of cases of cervical cancer) I see no reason to find fault with them. Do you think women are too stupid to evaluate for themselves whether they should get the vaccine?
They sell a drug that will benefit less than 1%, to many who won't need it, to subsidize research? Yeah. That's honest.
They sell it to consumers who choose to buy it. What is dishonest about that?
Less MONEY for Merck if they beat Merck to market.
So? Companies are in business to make money. The question is whether adequate studies were done, everyone in the field of medicine agrees that they were.