Fatbobo, i agree with you on the social responsibility part. i read an article by a doctor saying that for those of us with generally healthy kids, skipping the vaccinations (and our children getting the disease) is no big deal, they'll recover. but if enough people don't take the vaccinations, diseases that are almost extinct will come back and there are some children who cannot be vaccinated, e.g. children with cancer, so if they catch the disease, they will die, not from the cancer, but from measles or something cos their resistance is too low to fight it.
The so called link between the MMR and autism isn't really accepted by the medical community. From what I've read, it's just gotten a lot of publicity bcos there's an American actress who's convinced that the MMR caused her son's autism. Then again, I can all understand that no mother wants to take a risk with their children, no matter how small the possibility...
anyway, all that reading gave me a little headache...