I was a nerd, so I tried really really hard to prove logically that my religion was the correct one… and failed.

I am sympathetic with the sentiment so I am hardly going to discourage anyone from doing this, but it is not clear who could still be convinced at this point.

Also, the event you cited happened half a century ago. Does that mean that the conclusions of the medical research community simply never get to be trusted ever again until… something?

One does not have to trust the CDC; there are plenty of other sources one can get information from. To conclude that vaccines cause autism, one actually has to be extremely selective about ones sources. Put another way: the problem is not that people are not trustful enough, but that they are too trustful.

You seem to be very critical of my supposed mocking, but I have not mocked anyone for not trusting the CDC, so perhaps a little less projection is in order.

…therefore vaccines cause autism?