You do some truly excellent analysis here, but I stopped reading this piece as soon as I saw you write that measles is a nasty disease. No it's not. It is incredibly benign for otherwise healthy, well-nourished children It is a serious problem for the malnourished, as well as for some children who are immunocompromised. On the hand, autism is a serious life-long disabling disorder for all children, and the MMR vaccine causes autism. Not in infinitesimally small numbers. In very significant numbers. You cannot show us a study that disproves the testimonials of tens of thousands of parents, because there are none. The government and drug companies will not allow them to be done. The medical journals will not allow any that are funded independently to be published.

Parents are being forced to choose between a mostly benign short term illness for the very real risk of lifelong disability. This is insanely corrupt.

Not to mention, measles infection in childhood reduces the risk of a number of cancers later.