Malin. I cannot fathom your intentions. But enough already. You are suggesting that the world's most published authority on HPV and oral cancer is a fraud or incorrect, or biased towards vaccines perhaps, because she took research dollars from Merck early in her career? Then you must condemn every researcher there is, as they all at some point in time get funding from commercial entities, even if not directly, through grants to their universities. Really, do you also believe that the experience in the US is the same as the experience in your country, or perhaps India? They are all different, and the data collection mechanisms are equally so.

You have clearly misunderstood the reason for the message boards, and these kinds of discussions about something your clearly have opinions on, but have not properly explored, are a waste of time. Of course we have a cancer registry, we have the SEER database, and we know the numbers. Do you think the researchers who publish from this country do not have their work reviewed by their peers and are not held to the strictest standards of scientific inquiry? So you don't even know these basic things about the issue, and you are posting all these opinions?

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts. Until you learn some more, and quit posting one particular study as the answer to everything, (when hundreds contribute to the final conclusions), perhaps you should not engage so passionately in the world of opinions. If you had read the foundation's web site, and my other postings you would clearly know that neither are anti-sex, neither are about prohibition of any behavior, nor about creating fear in anyone�they are about giving them the best information to make good decisions from.

This "debate" is not productive as the facts that we know today are drawn from hundreds of articles, and to post a clipping from one out of hundreds of them that happens to disagree with the rest, only confuses the patients here, and is not productive.

I do not wish to be rude, but I am at a conference this weekend lecturing, and I cannot continue this dialog with you, nor let you confuse the issues (and new patients that are just getting their minds around some of this information and their situations) with half truths and speculations on the forum.