Bear with me, what I'm about to spew is not "scientific fact" but only my big fat opinion. I think there are a lot of other risk factors that contribute as much as or more than HPV infection to cancer. I think this is overmuch emphasis on one little set of genital warts that is associated with getting cervical cancer later. But what if the rest of the woman were healthier? Not everyone with the "wrong" kind of warts gets cervical cancer. So in my opinion, it's not worth worrying about.
They are building up the fear of the warts and cancer in order to sell a product. This kind of hype is very profitable for the pharmaceuticals, and the FIRST step in selling the medicine is the create the disease. Given the slightest bit of scientific data that something causes something else, they'll run with a marketing strategy that blows its importance sky high. And I don't trust them one bit.
Same deal with the purveyors of the menses-stopping birth control pill. Synthetic hormones are suspect in my book. The long term side effects are completely unknown. But they'll sell us anything if we'll pay for it.
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Date: 2007-05-27 09:01 pm (UTC)They are building up the fear of the warts and cancer in order to sell a product. This kind of hype is very profitable for the pharmaceuticals, and the FIRST step in selling the medicine is the create the disease. Given the slightest bit of scientific data that something causes something else, they'll run with a marketing strategy that blows its importance sky high. And I don't trust them one bit.
Same deal with the purveyors of the menses-stopping birth control pill. Synthetic hormones are suspect in my book. The long term side effects are completely unknown. But they'll sell us anything if we'll pay for it.