I'm so glad that I don't have to worry about all the vaccinations for young children today because I'm not sure what I would do. I do believe that the public benefits from mass vaccinations but I also believe that political correctness has pushed so many vaccinations on us that my common sense tells me that it can't help our immune systems.
One vaccination I would have never recommended to anyone is Guardasil, a vaccination to prevent HPV in women.
Here's a piece that affirms my belief in how political correctness trumps serious public health initiatives.......
Gardasil has to be the perfect drug for the brave new world of ObamaCare, in a 1984 kind of way. Made by Merck & Co., it was approved in 2006 for use against venereal disease in young girls. Here's why it's so culturally suited for hope and change -- and such a perfect example of why you don't want the government in your medicine chest:1) Gardasil has owed most of its success to the fact that government agencies have been subsidizing its sales, recommending its use, and even talking about requiring it.2) Administered to girls as young as nine, it seems likely to help them grow up feeling ever so much safer about "safe sex." They'll be freer to rebel against bad old, religion-based morality, and more inclined to bond (as it were) with peers, school, the state and charismatic politicians who are always repeating themselves.3) Best of all, it now appears that Gardasil doesn't work.Gardasil was promoted as the first vaccine against cancer, since it works against human papilloma virus (HPV), which is believed to instigate the growth of cancerous cells in a woman's cervix. But since it was first hurriedly approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Gardasil has been dogged by criticism that it hasn't been adequately tested, and by persistent reports of side effects, including deaths. So has a similar drug, Cervarix, made by GlaxoSmith-Kline.
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