@bkcunningham As much as I tend to agree with @ANef_is_Enuf about wanting it out on the market a long time before putting it into my body or one of my kids (if I had kids) I don’t think it is hype. The only hype I have seen is Bachmann making it political against Perry, and Perry, from what I understand originally did not include the ability for parents to wave the vaccine if they were against it. But, I see no difference in putting the HPV vaccine on schedule like measles, mumps, and polio. It is certainly not like the flu. Something like 80% of the population has HPV, and at any time they can be contagious and pass it along. It is a silent killer. The flu, well, people are sick, they can choose to keep themselves out of circulation while sick, and people can choose to stay away from the sick. Once a person is over the flu, they cannot get the rest of the population sick. Bachmann “spoke” to her followers because the Christian right tends to hide their heads in the sand about how sexually active our teens are. Perry, to his credit, lifted himself out of his religiousness and took into consideration that HPV can kill people, and be passed along unwittingly. I think Perry said his campaign received something like $5k from that pharm company. If that is true, I don’t see that as a big payoff.