The drug passed by FDA standards, which take years and lots of clinical trials. The usual criticism is that the process doesnt move fast enough.\
How many drugs do we see pulled? Very very few. Vioxx got pulled really for not very good reasons, and now I see an article where orthopedic surgeons want it back.
I can assure you that Merck is not making much money on the deal, especially compared to the liability they are exposing themselves to. Why Perry wants to mandate something like this is beyond me, and I would be opposed to it here. But it isnt some deep conspiracy so save your tin foil.
I didn't intend on coming off as a tin foil user. And I doubt it is a conspiracy. But the fact remains that we don't know if there is going to be an effect crop up after these all these 11 year old girls get the shot when they turn 21 or 26 or 31 or so on. I didn't like the reason Vioxx got pulled, but the issue still remains that there was an unknown complication from using it. (I think it would have better been dealt with by Dr.s not prescribing it to people at risk. I'm a younger person and used it after messing up my ankle. It is good stuff.)
Bottom line is that making it mandatory is what I really disagree with. Our local news frames the debate as a moral or religious issue. That if you give your kid this shot, they will be encourage to go and have sex. I don't like the argument, but I should have the right to say what my kid is and isn't given.
As too the mandate and executive order, he is able to this only through the public school system. Your daughter will only have to have the shot if she is going to public school. It is my understanding that since he wrote the order to only be applied to the public school health care stuff, it doesn't have to go through the legislative process. If all that is true, it might be a problem that Texas needs to deal with.
