I remember talking about the proposed mandatory HPV vaccinations in British schools a few years ago over dinner with flat mates. Like 90% of our discussions, it ended with me yelling about nihilistic relativism, and one of them shouting that my unconditional faith in science was self-defeating, and then we ate spag bol, watched Hollyoaks and fell asleep on a mattress.
But as always, Amanda Hess (my DC gender-politics blogger crush) has looked at recent media coverage of Gardisil (the branded Human Pappilomavirus vaccine which prevents at least four "types" of the virus, two of which are the cause of 70% of cervical cancer -- sorry if this is sex-ed-ish, but HPV is more of a US thing, isn't it? It is.) and how McCarthyist (HAR HAR) pseudo-sciencey vitriol is dumb, damaging, et cetera et cetera.
But as always, Amanda Hess (my DC gender-politics blogger crush) has looked at recent media coverage of Gardisil (the branded Human Pappilomavirus vaccine which prevents at least four "types" of the virus, two of which are the cause of 70% of cervical cancer -- sorry if this is sex-ed-ish, but HPV is more of a US thing, isn't it? It is.) and how McCarthyist (HAR HAR) pseudo-sciencey vitriol is dumb, damaging, et cetera et cetera.
