Have you considered that you're just an ass-hatted troll?
I understand that at the time the iPhone was the only choice you could make that would prove to all around you your supremacy.
I don't give a crap about "supremacy", I wanted my phone to do a few different things, and the iPhone was the best option at the time, if a very flawed and imperfect choice.
The fact remains that Apple's design choices are moving backwards, not forwards.
It doesn't matter if you and the rest of the one percenters don't like or if it fails any kind of standard test, they obvioulsy figured something out.
What they "figured out" is no different from what a number of companies to make a "first in the industry" product have figured out, and it has absolutely sod-all to do with actually making a decent design.
The proof in the pudding is their amazing sales.
And two years from now, the "proof in the pudding" will be all the news stories about "well fuck, how did the iphone fall that fast?", just like the similar stories for the past two years about the downfall of RIM and the Blackberry.
At the time my prior phone died (not due to a defect unless you consider "unable to survive an accidental 30-foot fall" a defect), iPhone was the "best smartphone" available.
That doesn't mean it doesn't, to this day, have GLARING design flaws caused by Steve Jobs' pathological phobia of buttons.
They don't have a clue on interface design. Or at least not enough of one to have someone with a little common sense counteract the design flaws introduced by Steve Jobs' pathological fear of buttons.
They had a good marketing plan, which explains their success-to-this-point (diminishing daily now that their competitors have caught up) in the field.
That was my point, which I have now boiled down to a simpler one-sentence explanation that you may have a hope of comprehending what I said before.
"Specialized viewer mentality" has always been there.
Sony loves it. They only put DVD players in the PS2 because they were part of the consortium that owned the patents. They put Blu-Ray in the PS3 because... they own the patents. They used their proprietary memory card tech in the PSP and PS3 because... you guess it... they own the patents. In the early days of MP3 players, they were trying to shove minidisc and ATRAC down everyone's throats because, guess what... THEY OWNED THE PATENTS.
We now have Amazon Kindle Store, B&N Nook Store, etc because everyone wants to try to lock their customer into their devices. Want to switch to Kindle? Ok, but you can't take all the Nook books you bought with you (without cracking the DRM, being accused of "piracy", etc etc).
Every corporation loves the idea of the specialized viewer because it locks the customer in to their store. Every consumer with a brain hates the idea, but has nowhere else to turn to except "piracy."
Not really. Apple's "success" in the field is a result of:
- being first in the field (prior to Apple, the best you had were Blackberries, which have an incredibly limited scope in app capability).
- Piggybacking onto a large-scale carrier to be "exclusive" to that carrier, in exchange for getting the business of anyone who wanted a "smartphone" but didn't want to go through the hassle of trying to transfer their number away (AT&T are the WORST to try to keep your number from when you leave).
- Marketing, marketing, marketing. If there's one game Apple plays well it's the hype game.
Android phones are getting more and more popular. I know a hell of a lot of people who've abandoned the iPhone for a Droid model and every one says that the biggest upside, aside from not being beholden to Apple's "walled garden fuck you" method of OS design, is the fact that they have a physical keyboard to work with.
I have stubby fingers. For me, iOS's "touch keyboard" is just about unusable with any regularity. On the other hand, the mini-chiclet keyboard on my prior phone was no problem because I could feel the edge between the keys.
Accessibility is being sacrificed to Steve Jobs' irrational (bordering on personality disorder) dislike of buttons.
It's almost to the level of a phobia.
The iPhone would be FAR better with a slide keyboard. "Touchscreens" are shit-poor interfaces for trying to type on a mini-chiclet keyboard space unless you are using a stylus; sure the iPhone pops up a "larger" image of the button you are "pressing", but I can't read it past my thumbnail anyways, so it does little good.
I've lost count of the number of times I misdialed a number simply because I was on the "edge" of the damn touchscreen dialing interface and bumped the 4 instead of 5 or 5 instead of 6. With a real touch interface, I'd have tactile feedback and I'd know which damn button I was on.
Intriguingly, when you see the notes of batshit-crazy bimbo Jenny McCarthy's "treatment regimen" for her "autistic" son, one of the major things they did is switch him to a gluten-free diet.
But telling in her case is that first, the doctors were thinking epilepsy; then she got a "second opinion" from someone who has a financial interest in diagnosing as many kids with "autism" and "adhd" as possible.
Not being a doctor, but following from basic first aid training, it's quite probable that McCarthy's unfortunate son (unfortunate in his condition as well as the misfortune to be born to that batshit insane nitwit) was actually suffering from allergy-related seizures that were - no surprise - cleared up when she switched him to a gluten-free, dairy-free diet. The rest of his "symptoms" are also consistent with other cases involving developmental delays due to undiagnosed food allergies.
It's just sad that her boob-to-brain-mass ratio is so large that she's completely incapable of grasping this simple concept, and instead goes around convincing parents to kill their kids by not vaccinating.
As always, though, this project is set up to fail.
Uhm... it's the US Gov. Of course it's set up to fail.
When NASA were given a mandate to do things and do them right, things got done well and got done right.
When the fuckwits called Congress then decided NASA was to be targeted in every round of budget cuts and used as a political punching bag, and sent them the "do it all fucking fast and cheap and we don't fucking care about lives or quality" mandate, we got dead astronauts and errors all over the place.
Someone else below has the following to say: The usual problem with Nasa projects is that Nasa projects take longer than a typical politician's term of office. It would be sort of like working in a company where the Big Cheese changed every 2 years, and each one wanted a completely different product produced in a completely different part of the world.
Ta-dahh. Welcome to reality. Remember a while back when Obama laid out his "big plan" for NASA, which involves basically stripping down JSC in Texas and moving everything to KSC in Florida? It has nothing to do with science or efficiency, because in order to do what he said to do, they literally have to rebuild the entire JSC facility over at Kennedy. On the other hand, Obama's crony got voted out from the district JSC sits in so it's now in Republican hands again (probably for good, the only reason the Democrats had the one shot was a messed-up election following Tom DeLay's resignation) but on the other hand, Obama was hoping that injecting jobs into KSC would help tip the election in the Florida 24th for Suzanne Kosmas who was in a tight race at the time against Sandy Adams.
I can't tell if you are serious or intending parody. Given that you posted as Anonymous Retard, I'll guess serious.
they had their chance and they blew it
If that's the case, you're arguing for the death penalty? For all "sex offenders"?
Remember that in some jurisdictions, a 19-year-old who has sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend is a "sex offender." "Sex Crimes" laws are enforced just as often because the parents don't like their daughter's boyfriend as because there is actually something involved.
You could be a "sex offender" if as a teenager you sent a cell phone picture of your naughty bits to another teenager.
Or you could become a "sex criminal" if you have consensual sex with someone else, and they decide in a moment of regret afterwards that you really "raped" them. And in cases where you were both drunk out of your minds, technically you both raped each other because neither was "fit" to consent, but guess who the cops are going to charge and who the prosecutor's going to try to convict?
If we had a system where only serious offenders - those who are clearly high age molesting kids, serial rapists, rapists who use serious force like gun or knife or beat someone up - were put under "sex offender" registration and stigma, that'd be one thing. I'd even be ok with changing their status so that they had to go through medical diagnosis to assess the likelihood of recidivism in order to reach parole status, or be transferred to psychiatric care once they were released from prison.
The fact remains, the system we have right now is overbroad and simply does not work. I'd personally argue that Florida's crazy statutes, that force someone to live under a bridge under their "cannot leave the county, cannot live within 2500 feet of the following places", also fall afoul of the US Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments.
In my office, we switched from having office phones to spending the money on a cell allowance, with the understanding (written contract actually) that the allowance was compensation for using our personal cell phones as the office line.
Then, a government "budget cut craze" had them cut the number of cell allowances... AND nobody got their office line back. So we all share one line and it's a colossal fucking mess.
The larger problem is, the recidivism rate is drastically increased by the treatment of those who serve their sentences when they get out. This applies not just to "sex offenders" but just about all of the population.
Can't find a job, can't get a home? Increased recidivism rate. Yet how many jobs ask for a background check and whether you've served jail time in the past X years when you apply, and won't hire anyone with any record at all?
Sex offenders get it really bad because of problems like this. Imagine you're a "sex offender" whose only option, thanks to the "exclusion zones" getting bigger and bigger and overlapping all over, is to live in a shack under a fucking bridge. Now imagine you can't find work because any commute takes you through an "exclusion zone" even if you could find a job. Fuck, even "low income" or manual-labor jobs like construction are out of the question; you are actually under more restrictions than the illegal aliens even if you're desperate enough to work for illegal-alien, under-the-table slave wages.
Step one is reforming the prison system to work more towards rehabilitation and less to "throw them all in a dang pit and forget about it." In this, the Republicans really can be called Retardicans, because they're the ones calling for ever-increasingly-tough "punishments" constantly until the punishments massively outstrip the crimes and tend to serve not to rehabiitate, but forever debilitate the incarcerated so that they'll never be able to reform and rejoin society, ever. Retardicans are responsible for the fact that today's prisons are places where violent gang criminals are taught to be even nastier.
Step two is making sure that, once people get out and reenter society, they're given a chance to actually reintegrate and become productive members. Our current system of "exclusion zones" may help somewhat, but it's far too onerous and makes it impossible for those caught in its web to survive. "Instant GPS phones the cops" is going to mean "fuck, he clipped the edge of it trying to get food in a grocery store" for these amazingly huge zones - a 2500 radius exclusion zone is 5 city blocks' radius.
without the challenge of exposure to normal kids and socialization of public schools
After seeing firsthand in numerous schools the "lord of the flies" crap that goes on in most public schools, it's not entirely a "wack-job" reaction to not want to expose your kid to that.
If public schools had actual disciplinary guidelines that were enforced to prevent bullying and allow teachers to remove disruptive kids from the classroom, that'd be one thing. But I know a teacher who was fired for "touching a student" when he broke up a fight (where one student was trying to stab another with a pen) and hauled the fight-starter down the hall to the principal's office, holding the kid by the arm because the kid was STILL trying to attack the other kid. The school district fired the teacher rather than defending him after the parents of said retard, who happen to be rather wealthy (doctor+lawyer combo who are never fucking home to raise their latchkey retard) threatened a lawsuit.
but I think that society has an obligation to provide all of its members with the information they need to make informed choices
Jenny McCarthy has all the information she needs to make an informed choice. The problem is not a lack of information, the problem is that she's a brainless fuckwit.
Where do you think all the broken crap furniture on the side of highways comes from, if not yokels buying it at wally-mart and poorly strapping it to the back of their truck before driving off?
Did he have heavy metal poisoning? If you look up the symptoms you'll see they are quite similar.
In order to get heavy metal poisoning from vaccines, you'd have to get vaccinated on the order of multiple times daily. There are much easier ways to get yourself an accumulation of toxic metals.
On the other hand, there's every chance Scott Shoemaker's kid was chewing on shittychinese-madeCadmium-laced or lead-laced toys. Or chewing lead paint from the house's walls.
I submit your son's troubles are directly causally related to exposure to you. After all, his condition declines with exposure to you.
Facetious? Yes. At the same time, people are very good at convincing themselves that they understand the "cause" of something even when they don't. This is how superstitions are born. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is called a logical fallacy for a reason, yet for some reason there's a sizable, possibly majority, portion of the population that simply cannot grasp the difference between correlation, causation, and just plain coincidence.
The problem here is, Wakefield's scam has actually caused the death of hundreds of kids and caused thousands of others to get sick with completely preventable illnesses.
He's personally responsible for causing outbreaks of diseases which were all but eradicated to spring back up as enough stupid parents followed the lead of batshit-insane people to break down what we call "herd immunity", which is also what we rely on to protect the small number of people in society who don't get vaccinations for "religious" reasons or because they have a demonstrable allergy to one of the vaccine components.
Further, the "debate" over this has increased distrust of doctors, which isn't helpful. We already have enough problems with hypochondriacs who should have their WebMD access taken away because they are constantly convinced they are "special" people with some rare, exotic illness rather than a garden-variety head cold.
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Have you considered that you're just an ass-hatted troll?
I understand that at the time the iPhone was the only choice you could make that would prove to all around you your supremacy.
I don't give a crap about "supremacy", I wanted my phone to do a few different things, and the iPhone was the best option at the time, if a very flawed and imperfect choice.
The fact remains that Apple's design choices are moving backwards, not forwards.
It doesn't matter if you and the rest of the one percenters don't like or if it fails any kind of standard test, they obvioulsy figured something out.
What they "figured out" is no different from what a number of companies to make a "first in the industry" product have figured out, and it has absolutely sod-all to do with actually making a decent design.
The proof in the pudding is their amazing sales.
And two years from now, the "proof in the pudding" will be all the news stories about "well fuck, how did the iphone fall that fast?", just like the similar stories for the past two years about the downfall of RIM and the Blackberry.
Fuck you too.
At the time my prior phone died (not due to a defect unless you consider "unable to survive an accidental 30-foot fall" a defect), iPhone was the "best smartphone" available.
That doesn't mean it doesn't, to this day, have GLARING design flaws caused by Steve Jobs' pathological phobia of buttons.
They don't have a clue on interface design. Or at least not enough of one to have someone with a little common sense counteract the design flaws introduced by Steve Jobs' pathological fear of buttons.
They had a good marketing plan, which explains their success-to-this-point (diminishing daily now that their competitors have caught up) in the field.
That was my point, which I have now boiled down to a simpler one-sentence explanation that you may have a hope of comprehending what I said before.
Better design would be to use the "dead space" around the Home Key for a Back/HangUp button, or Enter/Confirm/Dial button...
But then again, like I said, Steve Jobs' avoidance of buttons is pathological in nature.
"Specialized viewer mentality" has always been there.
Sony loves it. They only put DVD players in the PS2 because they were part of the consortium that owned the patents. They put Blu-Ray in the PS3 because... they own the patents. They used their proprietary memory card tech in the PSP and PS3 because... you guess it... they own the patents. In the early days of MP3 players, they were trying to shove minidisc and ATRAC down everyone's throats because, guess what... THEY OWNED THE PATENTS.
We now have Amazon Kindle Store, B&N Nook Store, etc because everyone wants to try to lock their customer into their devices. Want to switch to Kindle? Ok, but you can't take all the Nook books you bought with you (without cracking the DRM, being accused of "piracy", etc etc).
Every corporation loves the idea of the specialized viewer because it locks the customer in to their store. Every consumer with a brain hates the idea, but has nowhere else to turn to except "piracy."
Bullshit, it's an obvious SLAPP.
iPhone 3GS screen size: 3.5" diagonal (2.76" wide if held sideways). That's also the keyboard width.
Slide keyboard width on my older phone: 3.1".
My buttons were bigger than the iOS "buttons", and I had the tactile feedback from them when typing too.
Now please stop smoking crack.
This is a phone if you need to type out 200wpm your doing something wrong.
If I want to dash off a quick 48 character reply and I don't want to have 2 dozen typos in it, I want a real fucking keyboard, thank you very much.
No, seriously. Steve Jobs' hate/fear of buttons is actually pathological.
Not really. Apple's "success" in the field is a result of:
- being first in the field (prior to Apple, the best you had were Blackberries, which have an incredibly limited scope in app capability).
- Piggybacking onto a large-scale carrier to be "exclusive" to that carrier, in exchange for getting the business of anyone who wanted a "smartphone" but didn't want to go through the hassle of trying to transfer their number away (AT&T are the WORST to try to keep your number from when you leave).
- Marketing, marketing, marketing. If there's one game Apple plays well it's the hype game.
Android phones are getting more and more popular. I know a hell of a lot of people who've abandoned the iPhone for a Droid model and every one says that the biggest upside, aside from not being beholden to Apple's "walled garden fuck you" method of OS design, is the fact that they have a physical keyboard to work with.
I have stubby fingers. For me, iOS's "touch keyboard" is just about unusable with any regularity. On the other hand, the mini-chiclet keyboard on my prior phone was no problem because I could feel the edge between the keys.
Accessibility is being sacrificed to Steve Jobs' irrational (bordering on personality disorder) dislike of buttons.
It's almost to the level of a phobia.
The iPhone would be FAR better with a slide keyboard. "Touchscreens" are shit-poor interfaces for trying to type on a mini-chiclet keyboard space unless you are using a stylus; sure the iPhone pops up a "larger" image of the button you are "pressing", but I can't read it past my thumbnail anyways, so it does little good.
I've lost count of the number of times I misdialed a number simply because I was on the "edge" of the damn touchscreen dialing interface and bumped the 4 instead of 5 or 5 instead of 6. With a real touch interface, I'd have tactile feedback and I'd know which damn button I was on.
One comes from a business.
The other comes from a government.
In the beloved United States of Corporations, there's no fucking difference any more.
Intriguingly, when you see the notes of batshit-crazy bimbo Jenny McCarthy's "treatment regimen" for her "autistic" son, one of the major things they did is switch him to a gluten-free diet .
Of course, this nutjob also threw every new-agey piece of crap nonsense therapy anyone suggested at the kid, so who knows.
But telling in her case is that first, the doctors were thinking epilepsy; then she got a "second opinion" from someone who has a financial interest in diagnosing as many kids with "autism" and "adhd" as possible.
Not being a doctor, but following from basic first aid training, it's quite probable that McCarthy's unfortunate son (unfortunate in his condition as well as the misfortune to be born to that batshit insane nitwit) was actually suffering from allergy-related seizures that were - no surprise - cleared up when she switched him to a gluten-free, dairy-free diet. The rest of his "symptoms" are also consistent with other cases involving developmental delays due to undiagnosed food allergies.
It's just sad that her boob-to-brain-mass ratio is so large that she's completely incapable of grasping this simple concept, and instead goes around convincing parents to kill their kids by not vaccinating.
As always, though, this project is set up to fail.
Uhm... it's the US Gov. Of course it's set up to fail.
When NASA were given a mandate to do things and do them right, things got done well and got done right.
When the fuckwits called Congress then decided NASA was to be targeted in every round of budget cuts and used as a political punching bag, and sent them the "do it all fucking fast and cheap and we don't fucking care about lives or quality" mandate, we got dead astronauts and errors all over the place.
Someone else below has the following to say:
The usual problem with Nasa projects is that Nasa projects take longer than a typical politician's term of office. It would be sort of like working in a company where the Big Cheese changed every 2 years, and each one wanted a completely different product produced in a completely different part of the world.
Ta-dahh. Welcome to reality. Remember a while back when Obama laid out his "big plan" for NASA, which involves basically stripping down JSC in Texas and moving everything to KSC in Florida? It has nothing to do with science or efficiency, because in order to do what he said to do, they literally have to rebuild the entire JSC facility over at Kennedy. On the other hand, Obama's crony got voted out from the district JSC sits in so it's now in Republican hands again (probably for good, the only reason the Democrats had the one shot was a messed-up election following Tom DeLay's resignation) but on the other hand, Obama was hoping that injecting jobs into KSC would help tip the election in the Florida 24th for Suzanne Kosmas who was in a tight race at the time against Sandy Adams.
I can't tell if you are serious or intending parody. Given that you posted as Anonymous Retard, I'll guess serious.
they had their chance and they blew it
If that's the case, you're arguing for the death penalty? For all "sex offenders"?
Remember that in some jurisdictions, a 19-year-old who has sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend is a "sex offender." "Sex Crimes" laws are enforced just as often because the parents don't like their daughter's boyfriend as because there is actually something involved.
You could be a "sex offender" if as a teenager you sent a cell phone picture of your naughty bits to another teenager.
Or you could become a "sex criminal" if you have consensual sex with someone else, and they decide in a moment of regret afterwards that you really "raped" them. And in cases where you were both drunk out of your minds, technically you both raped each other because neither was "fit" to consent, but guess who the cops are going to charge and who the prosecutor's going to try to convict?
If we had a system where only serious offenders - those who are clearly high age molesting kids, serial rapists, rapists who use serious force like gun or knife or beat someone up - were put under "sex offender" registration and stigma, that'd be one thing. I'd even be ok with changing their status so that they had to go through medical diagnosis to assess the likelihood of recidivism in order to reach parole status, or be transferred to psychiatric care once they were released from prison.
The fact remains, the system we have right now is overbroad and simply does not work. I'd personally argue that Florida's crazy statutes, that force someone to live under a bridge under their "cannot leave the county, cannot live within 2500 feet of the following places", also fall afoul of the US Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments.
For some offices, this makes sense.
For other offices, it's fuckwitted crap.
In my office, we switched from having office phones to spending the money on a cell allowance, with the understanding (written contract actually) that the allowance was compensation for using our personal cell phones as the office line.
Then, a government "budget cut craze" had them cut the number of cell allowances... AND nobody got their office line back. So we all share one line and it's a colossal fucking mess.
The larger problem is, the recidivism rate is drastically increased by the treatment of those who serve their sentences when they get out. This applies not just to "sex offenders" but just about all of the population.
Can't find a job, can't get a home? Increased recidivism rate. Yet how many jobs ask for a background check and whether you've served jail time in the past X years when you apply, and won't hire anyone with any record at all?
Sex offenders get it really bad because of problems like this. Imagine you're a "sex offender" whose only option, thanks to the "exclusion zones" getting bigger and bigger and overlapping all over, is to live in a shack under a fucking bridge. Now imagine you can't find work because any commute takes you through an "exclusion zone" even if you could find a job. Fuck, even "low income" or manual-labor jobs like construction are out of the question; you are actually under more restrictions than the illegal aliens even if you're desperate enough to work for illegal-alien, under-the-table slave wages.
Step one is reforming the prison system to work more towards rehabilitation and less to "throw them all in a dang pit and forget about it." In this, the Republicans really can be called Retardicans, because they're the ones calling for ever-increasingly-tough "punishments" constantly until the punishments massively outstrip the crimes and tend to serve not to rehabiitate, but forever debilitate the incarcerated so that they'll never be able to reform and rejoin society, ever. Retardicans are responsible for the fact that today's prisons are places where violent gang criminals are taught to be even nastier.
Step two is making sure that, once people get out and reenter society, they're given a chance to actually reintegrate and become productive members. Our current system of "exclusion zones" may help somewhat, but it's far too onerous and makes it impossible for those caught in its web to survive. "Instant GPS phones the cops" is going to mean "fuck, he clipped the edge of it trying to get food in a grocery store" for these amazingly huge zones - a 2500 radius exclusion zone is 5 city blocks' radius.
without the challenge of exposure to normal kids and socialization of public schools
After seeing firsthand in numerous schools the "lord of the flies" crap that goes on in most public schools, it's not entirely a "wack-job" reaction to not want to expose your kid to that.
If public schools had actual disciplinary guidelines that were enforced to prevent bullying and allow teachers to remove disruptive kids from the classroom, that'd be one thing. But I know a teacher who was fired for "touching a student" when he broke up a fight (where one student was trying to stab another with a pen) and hauled the fight-starter down the hall to the principal's office, holding the kid by the arm because the kid was STILL trying to attack the other kid. The school district fired the teacher rather than defending him after the parents of said retard, who happen to be rather wealthy (doctor+lawyer combo who are never fucking home to raise their latchkey retard) threatened a lawsuit.
but I think that society has an obligation to provide all of its members with the information they need to make informed choices
Jenny McCarthy has all the information she needs to make an informed choice. The problem is not a lack of information, the problem is that she's a brainless fuckwit.
Where do you think all the broken crap furniture on the side of highways comes from, if not yokels buying it at wally-mart and poorly strapping it to the back of their truck before driving off?
No, it's 5...4...3...2...1...
Back in the days of Prohibition, "wine" was sold as mashed bricks/packages of grapes or grape juice.
They would come with instructions like "please be careful not to put in a jug with 2 gallons of water and leave in a dark place for 2 months lest it ferment and turn into wine."
By rights, there should have been an uprising against all this DRM crap and crappy laws. I wonder why it hasn't happened.
Did he have heavy metal poisoning? If you look up the symptoms you'll see they are quite similar.
In order to get heavy metal poisoning from vaccines, you'd have to get vaccinated on the order of multiple times daily. There are much easier ways to get yourself an accumulation of toxic metals.
On the other hand, there's every chance Scott Shoemaker's kid was chewing on shitty chinese-made Cadmium-laced or lead-laced toys. Or chewing lead paint from the house's walls.
Blaming the vaccines is stupid.
I submit your son's troubles are directly causally related to exposure to you. After all, his condition declines with exposure to you.
Facetious? Yes. At the same time, people are very good at convincing themselves that they understand the "cause" of something even when they don't. This is how superstitions are born. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc is called a logical fallacy for a reason, yet for some reason there's a sizable, possibly majority, portion of the population that simply cannot grasp the difference between correlation, causation, and just plain coincidence.
The problem here is, Wakefield's scam has actually caused the death of hundreds of kids and caused thousands of others to get sick with completely preventable illnesses.
He's personally responsible for causing outbreaks of diseases which were all but eradicated to spring back up as enough stupid parents followed the lead of batshit-insane people to break down what we call "herd immunity", which is also what we rely on to protect the small number of people in society who don't get vaccinations for "religious" reasons or because they have a demonstrable allergy to one of the vaccine components.
Further, the "debate" over this has increased distrust of doctors, which isn't helpful. We already have enough problems with hypochondriacs who should have their WebMD access taken away because they are constantly convinced they are "special" people with some rare, exotic illness rather than a garden-variety head cold.