Russ from Wired GeekDad: I Revoke Your Geek Card.
posted on October 24th, 2009 by Lawrence Miller
My problem with this recent Wired GeekDad post is not about whether Russ and his family get vaccinated against seasonal flu or H1N1, but about HPV:
First, my disclaimers - I’m not an anti-vaccination advocate, and all of my children have been vaccinated per school requirements. However, we have not vaccinated our daughters against HPV (Gardasil) and have no plans to.
No, Sorry, Russ, if you’re not willing to get your daughters (and soon, your sons) vaccinated against HPV, even in the face of factual information you yourself link to, then you’re an anti-vaccination advocate. And that’s not a good thing for a geek to be. If you want to make a case-by-case decision about each individual vaccination based on risk and efficacy, that’s cool. But if you’re doing that, the decision to get the HPV vaccine should be a no-brainer. Therefore, your decision must be based on some other factor, and whatever that factor is, it is almost definitely anti-geek.
