For those of you who can't spot the obvious marketing in this sentence...

"revolutionary cancer vaccine". Read it, believe it, then turn off your brain. Ahhh...feels so good to not think for yourself.

When I interviewed vaccine researcher Laura Koutsky for this article about the rollout of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, I was surprised that she didn’t advocate making the vaccine mandatory.

Trying to make the vaccine mandatory has created a backlash in Texas. But a laidback approach (voluntary vaccinations, free to girls aged 11-18) has paid off in New Hampshire, where, according to today’s New York Times, physicians can’t keep the vaccine on the shelves.

Is it "women's health" and altruism that motivates drug companies? Or is it profit? Hmm. Got to think about that one.

all the "christians" i know just use the magical healing power of a dead jewish guy from 2000 years ago, why not a magical bracelet?

Gather at the Federal Building Monday Morning and DEMAND a vaccine free society!!!!

After the Vioxx debacle I am deeply suspicious of Merck. After examining the low odds of even developing cervical cancer (and the even lower odds of dying from it) I have to ask myself what the odds are that Merck would put public health and safety needs over profit. My answer is: not high enough to risk my daughter's health right now.

amazonmidwife, your use of psuedo-scientific shibboleths like "peer review," "cohort," and "Gardisil" are a dead giveaway that you are nothing more than one of those Luddite religionists who must be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century by educated, informed rationalists such as those who posted comments 2 and 4 through 7 of this thread.

You need to be deprogrammed to give up your primitive "sample size" bugaboo and the rest of the hoary trappings of a meaningless imaginary belief system. You were taught these things by people who believe in concepts that worked well for the Hebrew tribes wandering in the desert 2500 years ago, but those ghosts from the demon-haunted world melt away when bathed in the warm and reassuring light of MODERN SCIENCE.

Get with it already.

*see how ridiculous it sounds to write an assumptive personal attack against someone as a means of attempting to refute their argument?*

And your metaphor actually makes my point. Isn't it religionist to take Merck on...I don't know...faith ?, instead of asking them to prove that their product is effective and SAFE?

Well said.