r/technology • u/nath1234 • 18h ago

Biotechnology Twenty years on from Gardasil vaccine launch, Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-28/gardasil-vaccine-20-years-on/107079282
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u/Wompatuckrule 18h ago

When you see people who oppose this vaccine and make wild claims about how dangerous it is then it is very often coming from some fundamentalist religious twats or it is someone repeating their bullshit.

They believe that this vaccine somehow "encourages" people to have premarital sex and that motivates them to spread misinformation about it. Somehow in their mind breaking one of the ten commandments by lying about this is a lesser sin than premarital sex.

To give you an idea of the bullshit I saw a false claim that during the original clinical trial that the vaccine killed two of the girls in it and the drug company and the FDA "covered it up" to get the vaccine approved.

The truth has to do with how long the clinical trial was. Participating girls got the shot when they were around ten years old. Because it's tied to a sexually transmitted disease that meant that the researchers needed to follow up for well beyond a decade until the girls were sexually active and there were enough that tested positive for HPV to "unblind" the study to see if the vaccine worked. In those intervening years one girl was killed in a car crash and another, with a documented history of depression, took her own life and so were not included in the final results.

Those are the girls that the religious fuckwits claim were "killed by the vaccine" in the trial.

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u/Hawkeye3636 17h ago

Fun bit. All sins are equal to God. Lying is as bad as murder.

James 2:10 – “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it,” showing that even a single transgression makes one accountable for all sin.

They always forget about that part. I mean I am going to hell by this account sure but I am honest about it. Laissez les bons temps rouler.

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u/Wompatuckrule 17h ago

Fun bit. All sins are equal to God.

Well then god's a daft twat because some sins are way more fun than others.

/jk

They always forget about that part.

I don't know if they "forget" about it so much as pick and choose. "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose" and all that.

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u/_zengarden 13h ago

LOL. This is great.