Just gonna edit out this reply. Instead, I will say I think there are quite a few non-scientific arguments and outright nonsense in this thread and in the article.

Not to highjack your post but I'd also like to point out that distrust of the medical community isn't baseless. We've had the Tuskegee experiments, doctors sterilizing poor women of color and numerous drugs and treatments that wound up causing great harm (phen-phen, thalidomide, the opioid epidemic etc.) It's hard to ask the public to trust you when you've failed them so many times and so horrifyingly.

Well that’s all well and good but what they fail to acknowledge is that under the right conditions the children of these people could kill people who are suffering from a compromised autoimmune system.

Whether it be from old age, AIDS, or even better someone going through chemotherapy for cancer.
One dose of the measles or whatever their little bundle of smallpox might be carrying could take out several innocent people. And the parents of these little wonders should be imprisoned if this should happen.

Let’s not forget that the previous studies that have released either fell short on research or were pretty much someone’s opinion.

So until science can prove to me that there’s at least a 90% probability that these vaccines cause autism and not Jenny McCarthy being too busy to hold her fucking baby in it’s bonding and development stage.

Then I’m gonna call bullshit and tell half of these people that your kids not autistic it’s feral and shame on you for handling it an electronic device while you were doing what the fuck ever!

Interesting how nearly all of those people who are so "scared" of vaccines, were
vaccinated themselves.
I cannot take their "fears" seriously.

I read the article. It still gets down to stupid. I grew up when chicken pocks, mumps, and measles were common. Polio was not as common, but I have known four people in Oklahoma including Leon Russell, who had polio. My best friend's sister had polio, and I remember going to his house and seeing her in an iron lung. How many kids get those diseases now. I don't feel sorry for ignorance. I fear ignorance.

Good article. Framing the issue in those terms can surely give us a tool to convince more people of doing the right thing. Maybe people who value purity very highly should be confronted more with the impurity of the horrible diseases. Don't really know what can be done against the suspicion of authority. It's very hard to get someone to trust a faceless institution that mostly works for profit. Maybe healthcare should be disconnected from profit in some form or another?