Wed 24 May 2006
CANCER IS BAD!!!!!!!!
For the purpose of objectivity, I am a cigarette smoker and I will one day probably have cancer, so my bias against cancer should be noted for the record. Do not let it be said that I have made, am making, or will make any ridiculous statements advocating more cancer. Cancer is a scourge on humanity and should be eliminated, no matter the cost. (Hopefully before my lungs burn out, obviously.) Remember, no matter the cost.
My bitter arch-nemesis Peter Sprigg (curse his name and lineage), vice president of policy at the Family Research Council, is not so enthusiastic about eradicating our tumorous enemy, Mr C. The people at Merck have developed a vaccine to prevent HPV, a leading factor in the onset of cervical cancer. Their only wish for it’s introduction to society (besides the billions in profits they’ll reap)? Mandatory vaccination for school admission. Is that really so bad?
The Family Research Council would have people believe that this vaccine will innoculate young people with the idea that being safe from one disease will make them more at risk for unprotected sex and all of the other many sexually transmitted diseases. Sheesh, IF ONLY getting women to take their clothes off were so easy. Hell, I’d open up a free clinic in my bedroom if I thought that would work! Maybe I am just on the fringe, as usual, thinking that better medicine AND accurate sexual education would help eliminate many of the things that Mr Sprigg frets over so much. Abstinence hasn’t moved or changed from the Number One Method Of Preventing Disease And Pregnancy, yet nevertheless, disease and pregnancy keep happening. This should tell us something about human behavior and judgmental nonsense from religious conservatives.
Is less unmarried sex still more desirable than less cancer? Less suffering? Less death? Are we still listening to a bunch of old men who have nothing better to do than sit around all day wailing, moaning, and gnashing their teeth at the though of teenage girls having sex with boys?
May 30th, 2006 at 10:57 pm
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May 31st, 2006 at 10:23 am
The old men are just jealous. Sure, practice safe sex, but I think if some people just went out and got laid, we’d all be better off. (Don’t take this post too seriously, I’m not about to get into a lengthy arguement over this.)
May 31st, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Trust me, I’m all in favor of a vaccine against HPV. Women’s health is a huge issue for me, and I would have to agree with you that cancer is bad. This is a wonderful innovation, and I would tell women anywhere to get it.
I wonder though if requiring an HPV vaccination for school admission isn’t a politically motivated act - and a rather aggressive one at that. We have many great vaccines already, hepatitis for example, that we don’t require for school admission. It’s been my understanding that the vaccines required for school are for diseases which, y’know, spread in schools. While I’m not naive enough to think that denying health care and education will prevent high school kids from having sex, I’m kinda still hoping that HPV is not among the diseases that spread wildly through schools.
Also, clearly, making the vaccine mandatory would increase production and profits.
Does holding a potentially life saving vaccine hostage until demands are met really make them the good guys?
June 27th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Oh my God, it’s the Family Research Council. Who cares what they think?
It does sound like a neat little boondoggle for the company. Kind of like a new entitlement for them. Talk about an earmark! This could make for some strange bedfellows in terms of a coalition that would be (or has already been) put together to fight it.
July 20th, 2006 at 10:28 am
Well, I don’t have to sit around and worry about what it may be like to have cancer. I DO have lung cancer, there’s not a thing anyone can do about it, and there’s a 90% probability that I got it from smoking for 30 years.
So who’s fault is it that I have cancer? Uncle Sam’s? Merck’s? The ‘nut’ Conservatives who make billions a year from people like me smoking? The ‘nut’ Liberials who are constantly raving about individual rights while at the same time they advocate forcing (by law) young people to take injections? Or, maybe, it’s my own damn fault!