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Assertions about a link between vaccines and autism, which have been debunked by scientific evidence
'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 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...