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• June 2nd, 2009

  What are your views on the Gardasil Panic?

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• June 1st, 2009

  What is so (romantically) appealing about "crazy" women?

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• May 29th, 2009

  What's the most non-awkward way to ask your boss for the money he owes you?

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• June 3rd, 2009

  Do you think Fluther is a better alternative to Yahoo answer?

  I don’t like Yahoo anything. Yahoo is to Google as Myspace is to Facebook.
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• June 2nd, 2009

  What are your views on the Gardasil Panic?

  @dynamicduo: I did not take offense; I just did not want to mistakenly give off the impression that I was of the camp subscribing to the panic. :)
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• June 2nd, 2009

  What are your views on the Gardasil Panic?

  @crisw: Yeah, and there’s also a really high correlation between ice cream consumption and drowning. At the same times of year during which ice cream consumption goes up, so do the number of drownings. As caring parents, we should stop allowing our children to eat ice cream in order to prevent them from drowning. Oh wait. Those two things are only correlated because when it’s hot in the summer, people are more likely to A) eat ice cream and B) go swimming.
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• June 2nd, 2009

  What are your views on the Gardasil Panic?

  Dynamicduo, I am completely with you. As a logical person who understands statistics, I was 100% on the side of the non-panic group before posting this question. I needed no convincing of the ridiculous nature of this panic. However, I read many comments from people on the side of the panic group regarding this situation. Quite confused by their reasoning, I attempted to post this question from a neutral position in order to facilitate discussion from both groups. Given that much of the “evidence” for the people in the panic group is anecdotal, I posted the anecdotes in order to present both sides of the situation. I was hoping to receive responses from people on both sides of the panic in order to challenge the reasoning and draw some logic out of the discussion in an interactive environment. I apologize for underestimating the population of Fluther, in believing that there actually would be some people here on the panic side of this debate. Before posting, it seemed to me there were an inordinate amount of people willing to throw their arms up in the air and call for an end to Gardasil upon reading a personal anecdote. There also seemed to be many who believed there to be some sort of governmental conspiracy trying to cover up a big flop of a vaccine, hence the question about what to infer from the girl’s anecdote about the Western vs. Eastern doctors. This is all clearly absurd, but I mistakenly believed there could be some people on Fluther who would agree with the panic group. I am well aware of human risk aversion, and I realize the way in which people inappropriately interpret health dangers and statistics. In my question, I was simply attempting to present the situation from a neutral standpoint so that we could hear from both sides. I was interested in learning the logic of those in the panic group so that I could comprehend this mindset and so that perhaps these people would be challenged to reconsider their reasoning. I apologize, again, for underestimating Fluther, and also for being so unclear and confusing.
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• June 2nd, 2009

  What are your views on the Gardasil Panic?

  @dynamicduo: All of this I agree with. I was asking for insight into why people would be panicked. Your evidence is insight into why not to be panicked.
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