“…These results are compatible not with an increased risk of asthma following MMR vaccination but rather with the hypothesis that MMR vaccination is associated with a reduced risk of asthma-like disease in young children. ”

With regard to the “1983″ claim, I recall earlier this year reading a media article by Robert Wood (head of paediatric allergy, Johns Hopkins), about safety of other legumes in peanut allergy. I’ll google the exact reference when I have time later but I seem to remember him saying that there were recommendations in the 1970s and 80s for peanut allergic people to avoid related legumes but work at Johns Hopkins showed this was not necessary. So looks like people were afflicted by this before 1983.

The WHO page on ‘immune overload’ links to abstracts of some very interesting papers. According to both Offit et al and Miller et al, vaccinated children in fact have fewer infections than unvaccinated children – while Hilton, Petticrew and Hunt point out that we don’t actually know “how British parents conceptualise the notion of ‘immune-overload’ or how they relate this concept to their own children”.

“And people wonder why in 1983, they had never heard of autism or severe peanut allergies?”
There is an excellent blog post on ScienceBasedMedicine here that looks at a paper studying adults who were diagnosed in 1980 with a developmental language disorder. Dorothy Bishop asked “if these people were subjected to current diagnostic criteria for autism, how many of them would be diagnosed today as having autism?” She found that 25% of them would.

We are familiar with the authors that you recommend so should not be surprised that you did not read the piece: your reading recommendations are without merit.