1. Use of vague, exaggerated or untestable claims. Check. They make vague scientific claims, failure to make use of parsimony (see Occam's razor), that is to find the explanation for autism that requires the fewest assumptions, lack of boundary definitions, meaning the areas where vaccines might not have an effect on autism, and, finally, lack of effective controls, such as placebo and double-blind, in experimental design.
2. Over-reliance on confirmation rather than refutation. Check. In other words, the anti-vaccine woo-meisters fail to accept the possibility that experiments or observations may show their theory to be false. Most scientists make no such absolutist claims. In fact, many researchers will state, that there might be a possibility that vaccinations cause autism, but they can find a mechanism for it to happen and they haven't seen any results that support such a theory. Scientists are completely open minded to any result, whereas the anti-vaccine league of undistinguished playboy playmates are completely closeminded to logic.
3. Over-reliance on testimonial, anecdotal evidence or personal experience. Yes. Self explanatory.
4. Lack of openness to testing by other experts. Check. Evasion of peer reviewed publications and use of popular press is precisely the lack of openness that prevents discussion. Jenny McCarthy and company complain that science is hiding the truth. Nothing could be further from the truth. Scientists, despite the lack of a scientific foundation in the vaccine causes autism hypothesis, spent years trying to test the theory. They found nothing that supports the link.
5. Absence of progress. Check (note that very little research has actually been done, most of it is nonscientific refutation of clinical studies). Basically science evolves. As new results appear, science develops new theories that may modify or even replace the old one. When I was working on my graduate degree in Biochemistry, we did not know what caused AIDS. Every biochemistry lab in the world was trying to figure it out. There were a whole slew of theories on what caused it (some of them were laughable), but now we know that HIV infection causes AIDS. That's how science works.
6. Personalization of issues. Check, and my particular favorite. Those vaccine denialists resort to name calling (we are all bought out by Big Pharma), appeal to authority or whatever other appeal that's handy, and, of course, conspiracies. Better than I can do, a point by point refutation of the specious attacks can be found here.
7. Use of misleading language. Check. Denialists of all sorts use scientific jargon to make superficial claims that the theory is scientifically sound. Like a couple of denialist comments here, there is a constant use of fancy terminology that makes no sense when read.

Tags: Pseudoscience, Anti-vaccination movement, Complementary and alternative medicine, Evidence based medicine, Homeopathy, Orthomolecular medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Medical devices