I'm gonna go ahead and say my baby doesn't want polio.
Enlighten me then, what smoking gun statistic do you have that would make it a rational decision not to give my children vaccinations?
This isn't a "smoking gun statistic" type of issue, and the fact most view "vaccination" as a singular issue is one clue as to how much propugnada is at play. Each vaccine is unique and has its own risks and benefits.
My main concern is with safety, and in short, safety reasearch is done largely by interested parties, e.g., the folks selling and /or profiting from the vaccine. This is an inherent bias and a well known confounder of research (he who pays for research more often gets a favorable outcome). There are various reasons for this, but the correlation is there. So the public depends on independent post marketing research to establish safety, however, it is very well known that our methods of post marketing study is very flawed, namely, we capture a small fraction of actual adverse event cases due to design flaws (VAERS is a passive reporting system that is missed A LOT of cases- this isn't contraversial, and all, all passive systems suffer from this flaw). So basically, we don't truly know how many people are harmed, but it is certainly more than is officially accepted. And the folks telling us "vaccines" are "safe and effective" are actually perpetuating propoganda, because in many cases there is not good evidence to prove it.
Then you have the other side, and the fear mongering around these diseases. Not to say that some of these diseases (polio, measles, etc) aren't dangerous, however, virtually all vaccine preventable diseases have a very low mortality and/or severe reaction rate (often much less than 95%, meaning that 95+% of folks who catch the disease won't even know they have it, and by far, those who show outward symptoms will recover fully).
Lastly, our actual understanding of the immune system and the vaccines is limited as well, and honest human error is a major issue. For example, a very large number of polio vaccines (like 10's of millions) was shown to carry a virus (google "SV40") which was shown years later to be associated with various cancers, and even epiginetic in nature (e.g., kids whose parents were vaccinated carried the virus, even though they were not directly exposed).
There is much more fuckary going on, depending on your viewpoint. Ultimately, I still believe that there can be benefits of certain vaccinations, but nonetheless that we are far from proclaiming them an unmitigated success, and/or demonizing those with concerns. And FYI, I did not look into any of this stuff until it seems my child was harmed by the MMR, by way of febrile seizure and subsequent lasting seizure disorder.
All of what I wrote is known and accepted by actual researchers, even those who support vaccination. So, if you find yourself reflexively rejecting it, you may want to ask yourself why?