Comment by tialaramex

To the extent there's aggression it's because "But what about non-HPV cervical cancer?" has been a red herring for decades and I'm sick of that. 8% in particular demands some extraordinary evidence and I did not see any.

That GAS paper was entirely new to me. I am focused on the UK and to some extent Northern Europe because I live here and the pathologist I know who is intensely involved in this stuff works for whatever the mutual self-calibration panels are called in Northern Europe. So, while a Japanese woman's life is worth no less, my friend cares that a lab analysing a smear in Oslo gives consistent results with a lab doing that analysis in Manchester or Paris and Tokyo doesn't enter into it.

Demographically there are a lot of white women in these parts, which I'm sure skew the numbers, so I can well believe what you said in the last sentence. I'd still be sceptical it could be as high as 8% for real population groups.