Things that were also very effective at their given purpose: asbestos, Thalidomide, DDT. The argument has never been over effectiveness, and it's a straw man to keep pointing it out.
Phil Plait, aka Bad Astronomer, has a good piece about all the anti-anti-vax polemics.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astro..._all_this.html
In short, you are making your own problem worse with all your ranting and facepalming and JFChristing.