"And if you had read the article you would have noticed that the second part of the vaccine plan was never administered."

That doesn't make vaccinations fake, regardless of what some Guardian editor decides to put in his headline.

"People are not vaccinating their children for all kinds of reasons, one of them is a distrust of authorities to have the best interest of their children at heart. For those people the cold hard proof that authorities are willing to use vaccination programs to further other ends is certainly not going to help swing them to the other side."

This is nonsense. Then again antivaxers aren't the sharpest tools in the shed, so they may see things that way.

My guess is that people don't want to vaccinate their kids simply because they perceive the potential negative risk from vaccinations to exceed potential gain.

They may distrust the government if they believe that the government wants to make sure there are no contagious diseases around but can accept a certain % of autism or whatever as a result. I don't think Bin Laden drive would make any difference for this calculus.