Or the evangelicals.

The HPV vaccine encourages sex! Therefore, it has to be opposed.

A vaccine that prevents fucking cancer is somehow evil!

Screw them all. Get your vaccines! Make sure your kiddies get them, too, including the HPV vaccine. It prevents fucking cancer!

The Catholic Church, the religious Right and all nut bag religious people in general simply do not care about facts.

Let me put it to you this way:

Human beings are comprised of atoms. Atoms arranged in highly ordered, specified arrangements which give rise to chemicals and complex, multicellular biochemical life. How exactly that started is not as important as recognizing that it DID ACTUALLY HAPPEN!!!

It is through the process of perpetual evolution; and changing genomes over time - with DNA replication and sexual reproduction as driving forces for diversity; that man has risen from the ranks of the animal world to become (as far as we know now) the only sentient and self-aware life form on the Earth.

We have the ability to enjoy sex for recreation and non-procreation purposes and this gives them the vapors for some reason. Instead of celebrating life and love and joy; or encouraging healthy choices for the use of our bodies and the application of medical treatments that defeat the microbial and viral worlds, there are vast groups of regressive people, spurred on by hateful ideologies and religious wankers that still prefer to preach hate, division, fear and loathing. Their world is petty and ugly and anachronistic in the 21st century - truth be told, the religious world views of most were anachronistic since the dawn of the Renaissance in the 1400's.

To steal from my mentally challenged right-wing friends, Religion is not PART of the problem, it IS the problem. (and has been for far too long). There is no amount of blood these zealots will not spill in homage to their destructive philosophy.

But explain this!

Have you ever seen the version of Comfort doing this pathetic schtick in front of a X-tian audience as stand-up?
It is priceless.

I'm with you on the easy-opening tab too....I had some slightly uner-ripened bananas at the house and tearing the top off is nigh impossible at times...I took to the chimp-method years ago!

The sooner the world turns completely against charlatans like Comfort, Cameron, Baugh, Hamm, and the rest of the X-tian professional grifter class, the better the planet will be...

Thanks for the giggle....it had been a while since I saw that moron!

And don't get me started about Cruz, or the rest of the GOP who see him as a savior.

I saw it all happen in the 70's and 80's. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson (Moral Majority and Christian Coalition, respectively). Start at the bottom. Use the churches; the IRS will not enforce their regulations. (And they didn't.) Put evangelicals and fundamentalists into every GOP delegation, starting at the precinct level. Once one has the precincts, one has the district delegations. Once one has the districts, one has the state delegations. Then, one has taken over an entire national party. Let's be honest and call it the Christian Theocratic Party, AKA the GOP.

If one wants a political revolution, that's how it is done. Unfortunately, the progressives/liberals/socialists do not have churches with which to help organize the movement.

But we have the Internet. We only need to unite. First, we have to keep the GOP out of the Oval Office. That means voting Democratic in November, no matter what.

I salute you.

or teaching sex ed "encourages" people to have sex, is like claiming that buying homeowner's insurance encourages arson.

Idiots all.

after he and Jenny McCarthy split up, but I guess not. But he's a 9th grade dropout, so I doubt science is his strong suit.

May there be many more cures and advancements in the field of fighting cancer!

The jury is still out on how effective Gardasil will be against HPV-associated cancer itself. We will need to wait another 15 years just to start to get any of that data, and if HPV screening frequency declines during this time, the overall result could even be a greater number of cervical cancer cases and fatalities.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Vaccines/56317

Cervical cancer prevention in the U.S., though, relies on the routine participation in the screening program as neither Gardasil nor Gardasil9 [the HPV 9-valent vaccine] can prevent more than 50% of all CIN 2/3 disease which is one of the primary aims of our screening and early detection programs," Harper, who was not involved with the research, wrote to MedPage Today.

Markowitz's team examined the prevalence of HPV -31, -33, and -45 -- which are part of the additional five strains in the 9-valent vaccine -- specifically because there had been prior evidence of cross protection, but found no significant difference when comparing prevaccine versus vaccine time periods. In fact, there were no statistically significant difference in the prevalence of the five additional 9-valent HPV vaccine types.

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But Harper points out that in these 10 years covered by this CDC study, the organization has also reported a significant decline in cervical cancer screening programs nationally.

"This is worrisome as to date the U.S. has yet to see improved health outcomes for the health dollars and energies spent with a clear signal that screening is declining," she said.

The bottom line is not to rely on the vaccine alone and keep getting screened for cervical cancer annually or at least biannually.

genital warts is also a worthwhile activity.

When the repubs get into the Whitehouse we'll get back to prayer to solve this problem.