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Comment author: fubarobfusco 15 August 2012 12:40:56AM 2 points [-]

Hmm ... it seems to me that if I wanted to invent a homophobic conspiracy theory to explain the HPV vaccination strategy, it would be like this:

"The vaccinators clearly do not want to make gay men healthier, because if they did, they'd promote the vaccine heavily for boys. As every good homophobe knows, gay men 'convert' little boys, who then grow up to be gay men. Instead, the vaccinators promote it for girls. This means they only want to help women, both lesbian and heterosexual women. Therefore, they are anti-male radical feminists."

This explains the facts at least as well as your conspiracy theory, and possibly better.

Of course, what would explain the facts even better is that medical ethics generally entail recommending a slightly-risky treatment most heavily for those who can suffer the worst from the disease; in this case, women.