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Ok, another daft question….its a fact that vaccines are effective. So why is he against them?
This is how denialism works. Things that have been accepted as reality by non-denialists are rejected by others. So you have vaccine denialists, evolution denialists, Holocaust denialists, HIV denialists, moon-landing denialists. They typically use logical fallacies and almost never operate in good faith.
Also, vaccines have basically been a victim of their own success. It's easy to look around at a healthy population and think that the thing preventing many now rare diseases didn't really have anything to do with it. I'm surprised someone as old as Bobby Brainworm falls for this, but humans are fantastic at not learning anything from history and not listening to wiser elders. Humans are also great at not understanding science.
The anti-vaccine thing is very much akin to the anti-government thing. The idiots that are still cheering on Republicans and the conservative ideology as they break government norms and government services and institutions have no idea what government was doing for them, but like the measles outbreaks and the anti-vaxxer idiocy, we are all about to find out.
There's no polite way to say it. He's not very intelligent and has a poor grasp of the information that would lead you to see that they're effective.
If you don't trust the government or establishment and you don't have the capacity to evaluate evidence, then anything the government or established medical system says is good must be bad.
The most charitable explanation is that he, admittedly, had a worm eat part of his brain.
You can find reasons that people could be pushing vaccines that don't do anything, but that doesn't mean they actually are doing so.
The age old myth that vaccines cause autism, he would rather kids be dead than autistic.
Newly ordered study