If you want to convince people that vaccines are dangerous, please start showing some scientific EVIDENCE rather than resorting to ad hominem attacks, among other fallacious argumnets:

http://open.salon.com/blog/amytuteurmd/2009/11/01/logical_fallacies

Why so quick to set this precedent of “mandatory vaccination” or “vaccination by coercion” — I don’t like where that might lead. Precedents are no joke. What’s next… mandatory breastfeeding, fired if formula feeding because of increased risks of future potentially fatal or chronic diseases? Mandatory circumciscion, fired if intact son because someday he might transmit an STD? Mandatory sterilization or kids taken away if you’re not feeding/exercising/schooling/caring for your kids the way some other group of people deems “right”?

No thanks. As a US citizen, to be told exactly what medical decisions are going to be made for me and my family, that just seems unconstitutional. Plus, medicine isn’t perfect! It’s fallible and changes over time –> sometimes what is lauded as “the next best thing” is often later found to be “unexpectedly dangerous” — trust me, I wish it weren’t like this. Also, given that so much of how doctors practice these days is being driven by defensive medicine, insurance issues, overly-close ties to and pressure from advertising campaigns by powerful pharmaceutical companies, etc., the best *evidence-based* medicine just isn’t being practiced – it’s more about what’s popular, not what’s proven. So given this, I just don’t see resorting to absolutes as truly getting to the root of a dilemma like vaccination.

I mean, seriously, I greatly admire and respect and regularly see our family doctors (ped, OB, internist, other specialists), and I think our government is one of the greatest on the planet — but c’mon, doctors are HUMAN, and doctors (and legislators, for that matter!) can and *DO* make mistakes, ***just like the rest of us***.

So that’s why, to me, falling into absolutist, government-required vaccination just seems so extreme, esp when the anti-vax movement is relatively small. *AND* when other more creative measures could certainly be used to address the issues raised by a small group of our population not vaccinating.