It bothers me that the only article that I can find on BellyBelly about vaccination is more or less "rabidly" anti-vaccination.

Now I know that obviously there are people who believe that vaccination is bad. I once had a long, sad conversation with a woman in the UK who was certain that a childhood vaccine (I forget just now which one it is that is controversial over there, but it interests me that there is no similar controversy here in Australia, and I think we had the same vaccine for a while, not certain about that one) had made her child autistic. Being interested, and a scientist by nature and profession, I did some background reading on that particular issue. It turns out that one study, done some 25 years ago, on a small group of patients who were chosen because they were already sick, tentatively made the vaccine-autism connection basically because the researchers messed up their data analysis. This result has been totally contradicted by the much larger and better designed studies that were done since then. But there are still parents in the UK who think a vaccine caused their child to become autistic, which is a really sad, angry situation for them to be in.

Another thing that worries me heaps is that my parents, when they became grandparents (to my niece), were advised to get their shots for whooping cough because it is now apparently so common in the community that older people are also at risk. I think that's appalling! Almost my whole generation has never seen a baby die of whooping cough, or any of the other fatal diseases we were vaccinated against as children, so we have no experience of how bad the diseases can be. I just bet that our mums and grandmas, having seen babies die, would never consider not getting an available vaccination for something like whooping cough.

Anyway, I've been trying to find good information about vaccination that is without all the "oooh, vaccines have nasty things in them" stuff from articles like the one I mentioned above. Frankly, the air we breathe has nasty things in it, so does the water we drink, so do most of the things we eat, but we don't freak about that, we sit down and work out whether the nasties are there in enough concentration to do us any actual harm, and if they do we take action and if they don't we don't worry about it. I also know for sure that crossing the road is far more dangerous than getting vaccinated, yet most of us cross a road every day without fear. Information such as in that article promotes fear without actually being informative, as there are no details on the risk factors of all the "scary" things mentioned. It also draws conclusions that can't be drawn from the information given, for example implying that vaccinations have caused the increased rate of chronic disease in recent decades when of course there would be a million other things that have changed in recent decades (like eating more processed food, the aforementioned nasties in air, water, food, reduction in daily exercise, etc) that could equally well be the cause of that.

Now, one very different (and better, as far as I can tell) source of information about vaccination that I've found is the articles from vaccination.org.au, particularly this one: Comparison of effects of vaccines and diseases
But I'd like to find more information from difference sources from this, so I can read more widely about the issues and discussions about vaccination.

Can anyone suggest some other sources of information on vaccination?

If we get a good bunch of varying links together, maybe we can put them into an article for BellyBelly, as the one article I can find (maybe I am missing something) is one-sided to say the least. I hate to think of any parents only reading information from that source.