irony
the popularity of the anti-vaccination movement can be traced to one person, wakefield. he is currently openly being accused of criminal fraud. there are two allegations. the first is that his research is wrong. this has been shown with a preponderance of the evidence in the court of science. the second is that he faked it deliberately. this has not been proven in a court of law. hence all the following allegeds. wakefield was developing a vaccine that would compete with what was being given to millions of people all over the world. which business-wise was going to be a lot like competing with microsoft. hence the alleged motivation to allegedly cheat and allegedly imply that that vaccine will cripple your children. he certainly let the genie out of the box. no allegeds there. ironically, the movement he helped start is against all vaccines. even the one he was developing. so even if he had gotten away with his alleged crimes and somehow succeeded in displacing the status quo, he would then have had to face the very monster he himself had created. course the hundreds of millions of dollars he would have made in this hypothetical scenario would have made the monster pretty easy to ignore.