Reply #42: I agree about the article, but the reason isn't 'inexplicable'

[LeftishBrit]

It is because there have been so many posts that emphasize distrust of vaccine provision and attribute bad motives to vaccine providers and pro-vaccine people (this is not precisely the same as being 'anti-vax' though it can often lead to it), and posts that insist that vaccines or their ingredients are causing 'an autism epidemic', that it ends up like crying wolf, and people end up expecting any post about vaccine safety to be in this category.

Although I do not think that vaccines play a role in causing autism, they can have immediate side effects (like any medicine), and it's always desirable to test for and seek to reduce these.