Why 44% of Parents Don't Get Their Kid a Vaccine That Can Prevent Cancer

[xchrom]

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/why-44-of-parents-dont-get-their-kid-a-vaccine-that-can-prevent-cancer/274202/


HPV-infected cells (euthman/flickr

To the extent that science understands them, a few important things:

12,357 women in the United States were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2009, and 3,909 died of it.
Most cervical cancer is caused by human papillomavirus (HPV).
In 2006, the FDA approved a vaccination against HPV that can prevent some of said cervical cancer.
The CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics recommend the vaccine to all teenagers. No studies have proven or raised serious questions about any associated side effects.

Despite all that 75 percent of teenage girls in the U.S. were, as of 2010, not up to date on their HPV vaccinations. That number is highlighted in an analysis by Dr. Paul Darden and colleagues in Monday's edition of the journal Pediatrics.

What's more, 44 percent of parents said they didn't plan to get their daughters vaccinated, which was up from 40 percent two years earlier.

[mopinko]

1. maybe obamacare will help

those shots were hella expensive.

[bemildred]

2. If you want universal covrage, or anything close, it has to be free,

because wealth is not universal.

[xchrom]

4. a load of bullshit. nt

[mopinko]

5. omg, what twisted reasoning.

so few women die of cervical cancer any more, so why bother to spare them the ordeal with a simple vaccine? did i get that right?
but on the other hand, it doesn't save enough women from that ordeal, so why bother?
the hallmarks of bullshit. arguing both sides of a question.

[kestrel91316]

6. Thank you for cutting and pasting all that antivaxer

propaganda. It's all bullshit reasoning.

Just try saying it's unnecessary to the many women who have had cervical cancer in the past or who will develop it in the future.

[LeftishBrit]

7. Do you know what sort of a site whale.to is?

It promotes far-right philosophies and conspiracy theories; e.g. it has an entire section dedicated to 'The Auschwitz Hoax'.



Writers whose articles are posted or linked at the site include:

(1) Eustace Mullins, who as a young man acted as a researcher for Joe McCarthy and still defends him. He is also a virulent antisemite who claims that Jews drink children's blood at religious ceremonies, and were themselves the main perpretrators of the Holocaust against other Jews who refused to go to Israel.

(2) G. Edward Griffin, who was a member of the John Birch Society; supported George Wallace's candidacy for president; and was a writer for his running-mate Curtis LeMay. He was a founding member of the very right-libertarian 'Freedom Force'.

(3) Henry Makow, an extreme all-round right-winger. He has expressed virulent racism, antisemitism and homophobia, and perhaps most of all sexist hostility to women (his website is called savethemales.com). Hereare some excerpts from a generally far-RW and specifically highly homophobic 2007 article:

'For centuries the Masonic central bankers who control Western society and culture have been pushing "tolerance." Why?

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is a notorious "forgery" that uncannily explains the reason. It says the Illuminati bankers want to "dislocate all collective forces which are still unwilling to submit to us." (Protocols, Section 5)

The four major collective forces are: Race, Religion, Family and Nation. They are the four pillars of our human identity.

How do you undermine them? Certainly a frontal attack would meet with spirited resistance. Instead you promote "tolerance" which destroys these collective forces by erasing the differences between them.

Thus you have ecumenism in religion, miscegenation in race, and regionalism (i.e. EU, NAU) in nation states. You destroy family by erasing gender differences....

. Gay activists can plot the end of "hetero-normative" society but the EU censors Poland for "hate" because it doesn't allow public schools to promote homosexuality...

American Zionists can instigate disastrous wars, but the EU declares illegal any scrutiny of the Jewish holocaust, which might deprive Zionists of their impunity. The truth can withstand scrutiny. ...


In the one-race, one-religion, one-world government, we are to have one sex as well. The bankers are creating a homosexual society by confusing us about gender and sexuality. (This confusion is called "Diversity." ) ..

....

..."Tolerance" shames us into giving up our humanity. Let's resist by strengthening our identities: heterosexuality, nation, religion and race...'


Can such a site be trusted on anything?


If you don't want Gardasil for yourself or your kids, don't get it - but please do not be drawn into, or encourage others to be drawn into, alliances with MONSTERS!