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Redheaded Gigi
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Newbie here. I'm hating on these relatively new Gardasil ads that shame parents over not getting their kids the vaccine. While I'm not anti-vax by any means, I am somewhat suspicious when Merck tries to shame me into giving my kids their vaccine. |
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TheNilvarg
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Good, people who refuse to vaccinate should be publicly shamed.
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MrTim
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"We're Merck, and we think your daughters are sluts, so they need to be HPV vaccinated RIGHT NOW!"
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Papa Lazarou
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I personally don't see what's wrong with shaming retards who think some blonde slut and a proven liar know better than the entirety of the medical and scientific community.
As for "sluts", I think it's pretty much been irrefutably proven that the ridiculous concept of 'abstinence' doesn't work, and in fact has been leading to more problems due to proponents of abstinence thinking that the best way to enforce it is via enforced sexual ignorance. Now, until we get our heads out of the proverbial sand and start enforcing mandatory no-exceptions sex education starting at a young age - a method that has been proven to reduce the risks of pregnancy and STD among teens in other countries - then there's no reason to leave things up to idiots who think "My little angel is better than all the rest and would never have any sex without my permission". Anyway, while there's not enough research for solid statistical likelihood, evidence has already shown that HPV can be passed orally - not just from oral sex but even kissing. So even the "good little virgins" aren't 'safe'. Simply no reason to NOT get the vaccine unless you have some kind of immunodeficiency problem. Every single person who willingly or willingly-by-proxy elects out of getting vaccinated produces the risk of passing it to those who cannot be vaccinated, or giving it the environment in which to mutate in a way that makes the vaccine ineffective. |
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the raytownian
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Same here. I don't even have kids, and I am in no way sympathetic to the whole anti-vaccine movement, but I just love how pharmaceutical companies try to push drugs by manipulating people's fears and emotions, as if I'm supposed to believe they have any concerns other than making money. They really have no shame. |
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cheesenado
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Yes. If the vaccine gives young gals and guys protection from developing cancer in the future, why is that a bad thing? Those with HPV may not show any signs or symptoms, and by the someone knows that they have HPV, it could be years after having an encounter with an infected person.
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Redheaded Gigi
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That's my entire problem with the commercial. If it were a CDC commercial, I'd have a different view; but I don't need Merck to guilt me into getting my kid vaxed so they can make a gazillion dollars.
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Redheaded Gigi
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Not everyone who is wary of this particular vaccine is a "retard", listens to Jenny McCarthy, and/or believes that their child won't engage in sexual activity. In my own particular case, I have two children with Crohn's disease who receive Remicade infusions and given that we have no family history of Crohn's and there's very little understanding about what causes the disease or induces a flare, I'm wary of just about anything my children put into their bodies. While they and their brother, who does not have Crohn's, are receiving the Gardasil, I don't need Merck to try to "guilt" me into doing anything. There have been enough imperfect, potentially guilt-inducing choices to be made with Crohn's treatment to last me a lifetime. Also, I don't think Merck gives a flying f**k if my kids or if anyone else's kids get HPV or HPV-related cancers; their concern is all about the company's profits.
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Thor
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Expecting Merck to care about our health is like expecting the supermarket to care that we're out of bread and milk. They're businesses. They're not there to care; they're there to fulfill a need and to make profits.
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Jimbo
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Cannot agree with that. If all they are interested in is profits and don't CARE about the people who use their products, then they should get out of the Health CARE business. Note the word CARE in the title. It's called the Health CARE industry, not the Health Profit Generating industry for a reason. If all they're interested in is profits, they should become a Hedge Fund management company, or manufacture industrial solvents or something. Not all corporations can or should be lumped together in the same basket with regards to what is expected out of them. The Health Care industry is, or should be, more than just a corporate profit generator. Health Care should be a calling, with different standards than other industries. If they are making medicines to cure diseases but don't care about the people who use them, why should we have any faith or confidence that they'll go to the greatest lengths possible to make sure those medicines are both effective and won't have harmful side effects? Why should we trust them to put our well being ahead of what you feel is their primary reason for being, making the maximum level profit possible? /Rant. |
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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
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Thor
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Merck "cares" to the extent that a corporate entity can "care". Hell, it makes medicines to, presumably, make us healthier. That's how it cares. It doesn't have feelings. And to expect that medication be free of side effects---well, we'd be waiting forever for that medication to be made available. Hell, even aspirin still has side effects. As far as profits---hell, I want them to make big profits. The more profits, the more that goes into research and development. I've read that it costs $1 billion to develop a new drug. |
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cheesenado
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^^ I don't think people realize how much it costs in money (and time) to develop a new drug that works. Those companies still have to buy equipment, pay employees, and fund future research and testing.
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Papa Lazarou
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I can't speak on this one, but aren't most vaccines nothing but money sinks for these companies? They make little profit on most of them.
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TheNilvarg
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Thor wins this thread. So tired of uneducated people bashing the pharmaceuticals industry.
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Jimbo
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That's all beside the point. Corporations are run by people, not robots or computers. The people at the top who sit on the board are the corporation and they're also human beings. As such, they are expected to care about the people who put their products inside their bodies, usually at a huge financial expense. I never suggested that they shouldn't make a profit, but that shouldn't be their number one concern, and they need to do it in such a way that they CARE enough about the people who use what they develop so that they don't start getting CAREless and sloppy, putting people's lives and health at risk. This stone cold, unfeeling, straight line "logic" that conservatives love to employ never really holds up under the light of day. |
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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
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Jimbo
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1) You don't know WTF you're talking about. 2) I wasn't bashing anyone. 3) I am more educated than you are, even though that likely isn't saying much. 4) If you send him a PM and ask him nicely, maybe Thor will send you a picture of himself. You can frame it and keep it on your night stand. |
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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
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Jimbo
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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
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Thor
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Sorry, but it all comes down to the money. |
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Jimbo
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Of course it does. Never said it didn't. But it's still not right. As evidenced by the number of half-assed junk they're putting out there that's making people sicker than they were to begin with, all because they don't feel as a corporate entity, it's incumbent upon them to care about the people who use their products. Like I said, with that attitude, they should get out of the business and do something else. |
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...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender
Jackson Browne - The Pretender C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States |
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Papa Lazarou
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^Then take umbridge with our current standards of ethics and testing laws and regulations and restrictions - not the companies.
The simple and sad fact is that within the current laws, by the time something even gets approved for human testing, so much testing has had to qualify it for THAT so that they're already at the breaking point when they do test on humans. and even when they CAN test on humans, the conditions, controls, etc. are so much more varied and uncontrollable because - coming back to ethics - there's very little way to solidly restrict variables of error or outside contamination of results. Also, while we have other animal species whose life cycles and internal systems closely mimic our own to where they become better options for seeing long-term usage potentials, the end-fact is that this simply isn't a perfect replacement for seeing what living 80-90-100+ years total would be like - whether the product is taken for a little while or long-term. Even if synthetic or cloned humans became a viable option - how long would it be before uptight ethical standards affected THEIR use as well. Hell, ridiculous ethical standards pretty much single-handedly halted an amazingly successful study on synthetic wombs simply because a full clearance hadn't been achieved before using human subjects. Also, while there's some legitimate cases of medicines causing serious problems that required a reworking of the medication itself - an even huger proportion of medical lawsuit/damage reports were found to result from abuse, misuse, or cases of extremely rare cross-affect - such as a case where one medication had adverse reactions when the user's diet contained onions. |
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Donathan
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Thor, what you just said here about businesses caring about profits and not people reminds me of a complaint I read on a TitleMax review website. Something like, "My husband had a job when we took out a loan from TitleMax and I am on disability. My husband was unexpectedly soon laid off from his job and we still had the TitleMax loan looming over our heads. I called TitleMax to explain that my husband didn't have a job anymore and I was on disability and it would be virtually impossible to pay back the loan anytime soon. TitleMax coldly told us we still had to pay back the loan on the agreed date. TitleMax had no compassion or sympathy for us! All they cared about was their money! We never should have taken out a loan from them! |
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My name is Donathan, pronounced the same way you pronounce Jonathan, except with a D.😀 Hitting on a Lesbian who speaks to you and about you like trash means you're REALLY desperate! 😀
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Just like Donna...the side effects are often worse than the initial illness. The Rx companies only care about profits. Death, should never be a side effect.
Just look at all of the class action lawsuits.
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Donathan
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Good point, Ron about death not supposing to be a side effect. I love how monotone most commercial announcers sound when they say,"Using Lanitra for Rheumatoid Arthritis may cause death." Um, no thank you! I'd rather have Rheumatoid Arthritis than die!
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My name is Donathan, pronounced the same way you pronounce Jonathan, except with a D.😀 Hitting on a Lesbian who speaks to you and about you like trash means you're REALLY desperate! 😀
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Yes, and $998 Million of that is for TV advertising!! Hey, it's expensive getting naked OJ's to sing in the shower. |
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