“Wakefield’s study is far from the only reason people choose not to vaccinate.”
Most of the reason that people choose not to vaccinate is because they believe that Big Pharma is paying off everyone to promote the deadly vaccine. They believe that everyone is corrupted by greed and only the anti-vaxxers have integrity. They believe that anti-vaxxers are selfless because they could become super rich if they promoted vaccines. They believe the ones promoting anti-vax have given up on jobs of prestige and wealth for the sake of promoting the truth, against their own self interest as it has only harmed them financially.
The truth is that many of the ones promoting it (and I am not referring to parents, rather to the practitioners) have earned a greater fortune for spewing their lies and fabricated studies, than they ever would have earned if they had remained an honest doctor. That is why Wakefield is relevant.