Honestly, the anti-vaccination movement has to be (in my opinion) one of the dumbest and quite possibly most dangerous anti-whatever movements out there.
Id like to address a few points and then bring up a few things for you to look into.
And the fact that the government requires vaccinations is even morre reason to be suspicious of them!
Ive NEVER gotten this line of logic. NEVER. I mean, the government also requires schooling and health/cleanliness codes on water and food. Should you ignore or go to restaurants exclusively with health code violations just BECAUSE the government enforces said health codes? Should you drink dirty river water BECAUSE water companies and whatnot are required to deliver clean water? So why does the logic work on vaccines of all things?
this next one is from MorkandMindy
and the internet has made it possible to hear opinions from sources big pharma can't easily silence.
Big (X) is another thing I dont get. I mean, the fact is, measles, mumps, diphtheria, polio, smallpox, etc are all gone or nearly completely gone. Isnt that evidence enough on its own?

This ties in with
There is a lot of controversy surrounding vaccines, but the big pharmaceutical companies don't want people to question them, so it is difficult to get/spread information on the subject.
On the other hand, with all the people who like to promote fear of things and conspiracy, its so easy to simulate official controversy where there really isnt any. Case in point, evolution and vaccines. The only recent resurgences of measles and a few others have come ONLY in places where parents didnt vaccinate their kids! Unless you wish to think Big Pharma is also covering up all the normal cases of diseases nearly wiped out by vaccines. I mean, if youre buying into big pharma conspiracy, why not go the whole 9 yards?
but the more dangerous vaccines seem to be for things that are easliy treatable or dont even get these days in the united states, it seems like a no brainer not to give these vaccines!
Which ones are you concerned about being more dangerous? And have you thought that maybe the reason people dont get them is because the vast majority of people ARE vaccinated?
There are also several things you should look up:
the term Herd Immunity
http://press.thelancet.com/wakefieldretraction.pdf
(the paper they are referring to is pretty much THE primary austim/vaccine connection paper)
And normally, I dont like to link to obviously biased sites like this one because it makes people a lot less likely to listen, but this one in particular at least lists every single source it uses along with a link at the bottom of the page (almost all go back to the CDC, so unless big pharma has them wrapped around their finger or something...)
Jenny McCarthy Body Count
Please pay specific attention to HIB, measles, rubella, and meningococcal disease (the trends on the rest do not seem to correlate to the dates they show particularly well).
Again, a word about the bias of that site: That site states that when actress Jenny McCarthy made her anti-vaccine position known, it got a lot of publicity, and encouraged many parents to stop vaccinating, and she is thus at least indirectly responsible for a great number of diseases and deaths that are preventable by vaccines that were unadministered. Hence the name of the site. But, surprisingly enough, the numbers on the diseases I mentioned do add up.
Metherion
