Unless you're proposing that it should be added to standard infant vaccinations, which would be an interesting battle to pick.

Let's not question that one!

What are our options at this point (since we believe everything we read)?

We could remove everybody's fingernails...much like the push to remove foreskins in Africa.

Or, we can ALL hand over several hundred dollars to Merck for their "vaccine".

Or both. Just to be safe.

There are a lot of people who are concerned about that vaccine because it’s a relatively new medical technology that, if used widely before its effects have been tested over a long time period on a medium-sized sample, could result in unforeseen medical problems down the line. The wider the use, the wider the problems could be. The history of medicine is full of medical “advances” that were prematurely released to a wide population and turned out to be terrible fuck-ups. Thalidomide babies anyone? And what about possible links between mercury preservatives in vaccines and autism? Making the vaccine mandatory at this stage could mean forcing people to choose between their health and the law. The numbers may ultimately show that the potential health risks of the vaccine are outweighed by its health benefits, but it’ll take time to gather that data and the drug company that makes the stuff doesn’t want to have that conversation right now.

But never mind any of that. Dan’s got a hammer, so every problem must be a nail.

No discussion, no difficult questions. Just round people up and force something down their throats or into their veins.

Thanks, Keshmeshi!

That debate has finally been put to rest just by you're saying so!

@8: Where do I get the magic glasses that let me see where that post says "mandatory"?

Read a newspaper.

And take a rhetoric course.

Nature Medicine 13, 857 - 861 (2007)
Published online: 1 July 2007 | doi:10.1038/nm1598

Genital transmission of HPV in a mouse model is potentiated by nonoxynol-9 and inhibited by carrageenan
Jeffrey N Roberts1, Christopher B Buck1, Cynthia D Thompson1, Rhonda Kines1, Marcelino Bernardo2, Peter L Choyke3, Douglas R Lowy1 & John T Schiller1

Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection, and virtually all cases of cervical cancer are attributable to infection by a subset of HPVs (reviewed in ref. 1). Despite the high incidence of HPV infection and the recent development of a prophylactic vaccine that confers protection against some HPV types2, many features of HPV infection are poorly understood. It remains worthwhile to consider other interventions against genital HPVs, particularly those that target infections not prevented by the current vaccine. However, productive papillomavirus infection is species- and tissue-restricted, and traditional models use animal papillomaviruses that infect the skin or oral mucosa3. Here we report the development of a mouse model of cervicovaginal infection with HPV16 that recapitulates the establishment phase of papillomavirus infection. Transduction of a reporter gene by an HPV16 pseudovirus was characterized by histology and quantified by whole-organ, multispectral imaging. Disruption of the integrity of the stratified or columnar genital epithelium was required for infection, which occurred after deposition of the virus on the basement membrane underlying basal keratinocytes. A widely used vaginal spermicide, nonoxynol-9 (N-9), greatly increased susceptibility to infection. In contrast, carrageenan, a polysaccharide present in some vaginal lubricants, prevented infection even in the presence of N-9, suggesting that carrageenan might serve as an effective topical HPV microbicide.

Wow, all of 'em, huh? Very well then, I withdraw my argument.

So in your version of rhetoric you can assume that because Dan and all those wacky liberals object to the fundamentalists' reasons for opposing the vaccine that they also object to thorough clinical trials, etc.?
Just as in your original post you're eliding two issues and ascribing a non-existent opinion based on the elision.
Rhetoric? Sounds like sophistry to me.

p.s. Newpapers are for suckaz. I get my news for free on teh interwebs.