Glad to see this has calmed down a bit.
Yes, Jimjams, I would have been mightily irritated if my child had a known risk factor for a particular adverse reaction which we had not been informed about it. In fact that may even have been the case, as we have a family history of autoimmune disease, which I understand may put a child at higher risk. I haven't looked further into that specific question as the vaccines have already been given now with no apparent ill-effect.
The reason I weighed in to support goodkate is because I get annoyed by an anti-vaccination consensus in which saying that vaccination is LIKELY TO BE safe for MOST people MOST of the time turns you into someone who hires out their children for scientific experiments before handing them over to be Tony Blair's teatime snack.
I haven't conducted a study of the amount of media space devoted to one viewpoint or the other, so I won't comment on that, except to say that I found myself having to swallow hard before taking my children for the MMR, despite my rational conviction as a scientist that any risks were outweighed by the benefits.
Ultimately science as filtered through the lens of the media, politics or business tends to be presented in stark black or white, whereas 'real' science is all about shades of grey.