a major
BUMMER!
a major
BUMMER!
Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.
--Lazarus Long
Wow! no kidding!
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
It's bad, of course. But
before we all panic, it's worth noting:
* It's only one study.
* Throat cancer is a very small percentage
of all cancers, even though the vast majority of Americans engage in oral sex.
* Most exposures to HPV are
handled by the immune system, and infection never occurs.
* For the same reason, most cases of HPV go away by
themselves.
* The most serious known strains of HPV -- the ones that are known to cause cancer -- are easily
avoided; through taking the new vaccine, intended to be given to children before they become sexually active. This
is good.
* HPV caused cervical cancer claims 4000 women's lives every year; or at least that's what I read
recently. Throat cancer is looking to be caused twenty times more often by HPV than by smoking, and affects both
sexes. Yet religious conservatives have fought against the vaccine, on the grounds that it makes sex less dangerous,
and therefore interferes with (useless) abstinence only "education programs". Morons.
This wouldn't be a bad
thing to write your representative about.
DrSmellThis (creator of P H E R O S)
Religious fruitcakes it is,
then.
DrSmellThis (creator of P H E R O S)
You'd be better to know about
this than me but I'll share it. A few days ago several of us were talking. Remember that we are down here in the
bible belt. One guy presented the argument that excessively strong religious beliefs are a form of mental
illness-hysteria. I won't say I bought the whole argument but he made a pretty good argument. Remember that none of
us are psychologists. Basically it was four old geeks sitting under a tree drinking beer and babbling at each other.
He later extended the argument to include almost any belief system the involves irrationally following any system or
group performing anti-social acts. Take things like the eco-terrorists, Jones Town, the Nazi party and so many
others as examples.
Again, more a fun argument than anything else.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
Shopper X wrote:Its
wrong only if its also wrong to sit in front of the TV watching The Biggest Loser while eating ice cream out of the
carton. Which may have happened to me once or twice in the past.
i was just going to post something like this
lol - i am ALWAY watching biggest loser while chowing down on the biggest meal possible. i feel so evil
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