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The controversy surrounding the MMR vaccine and its potential link to autism.
The weight of decades of research and surveillance concludes that the MMR vaccine is safe for the vast majority of recipients and prevents serious, sometimes fatal, diseases—measles, mumps and rubella...
The MMR vaccine has a well-established safety profile: common reactions are mild and transient (fever, rash, injection-site pain), while a small set of rare serious events have been causally linked to...
are not categorically harmful: the bulk of high-quality scientific evidence finds that approved vaccines have a strong safety record and that their public-health benefits generally far outweigh the sm...
’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...
Raw patient-level data are indispensable for the fullest, independent verification of a drug or vaccine’s efficacy because they allow reanalysis, subgroup exploration, and detection of anomalies that ...
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...