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Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet paper asserting a link between the MMR vaccine and autism was formally retracted and later described as fraudulent after years of investigation; multiple inquiries found...
’s multi-year investigation presented a constellation of documentary mismatches, medical-record contradictions, undisclosed financial ties, and recruitment irregularities that he argued amounted to de...
's 1998 Lancet paper reported a small case series suggesting a new "syndrome" linking — an implication that MMR might trigger autism — but the paper contained no robust evidence of causation and was l...
The clustering of first recognized autistic signs soon after the routine shot is, in large part, an expected temporal coincidence: MMR is routinely given at the same age when neurodevelopmental differ...
Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet paper suggested that the MMR vaccine might trigger a new “autistic enterocolitis” tied to intestinal changes; that claim has been subjected to intensive investigation an...
The short, direct answer is: vaccines do not make autism; decades of epidemiology, mechanistic reviews and repeated investigations have found no credible causal link between routine childhood vaccines...
Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet paper was eventually judged fraudulent, retracted, and found to involve ethical breaches and conflicts of interest that produced measurable public harm — facts that expl...
The General Medical Council (GMC) Fitness to Practise hearings concluded that Andrew Wakefield engaged in serious professional misconduct: his 1998 Lancet study was conducted and reported in breach of...
The BMJ, via a multi-part investigation by Brian Deer, documented that the 1998 Lancet paper by Andrew Wakefield misrepresented the medical histories of all 12 children in the study and that Wakefield...
Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet paper linking the MMR vaccine, bowel disease and autism was widely publicized and later retracted amid findings of serious ethical and scientific misconduct; investigato...