Before deciding to contact the doctor, I had sent an email to the station with my links noted above and received today a response from Michelle Flandreau who had interviewed Dr. Wilson about the HPV vaccines not guarding against oral cancer. This is what she says:

<<As Dr. Wilson discussed in the interview, there is a link between oral cancer and HPV16. However, he explained to us that the current HPV vaccine is not designed to guard against oral cancer, which is why we included that in the segment.

I spoke with him today to help clarify his response. He said that among medical professionals, the vaccine is not touted as a vaccine specifically against oral cancer. However, he did say it could give a person some protection. But because there are many other reasons a person could get oral cancer, he said that he and other medical professionals do not want to say that it protects you from oral cancer.>>

Maybe it's a question of semantics, going from "HPV vaccines do not guard against oral cancer" to "it could give a person some protection" but what it looks like to me is that on the local station's website he is saying it does NOT protect and in his conversation with the interviewer, he is saying it DOES protect.

Meanwhile, the local station's readers are being informed that the vaccine does NOT guard against oral cancer.