It's shocking the extent to which some people would lie and spread FUD about vaccination. It's like their holy mission in life. The facts don't matter. History does not matter. Even their children's lives do not matter. All that matters is how many people they can convince not to vaccinate their children. If you try to correct them or point out "inconvenient facts", they will often accuse you of working for Big Pharma, or benefiting financially from vaccines in some way. Well, to all parents, or soon-to-be parents, there may seem to be a big debate about whether vaccines cause autism, but the fact is there is NO DEBATE. There are NO TWO SIDES to this story. There is only the truth on one end, and bullshit on the other end. Vaccines CANNOT and DO NOT cause autism. It is not biologically, physiologically, nor logically or temporally possible for vaccines to cause autism. The controversy is not why the medical profession promotes vaccination (simple - we want to save lives). The controversy is why such educated and (normally) sane people behave so illogically when it comes to vaccines? Admittedly, the science can get pretty confusing, so I don't blame folks who are genuinely confused about the arguments. Consider instead the logical problems with the claims that the anti-vaccination proponents make :
