Study Linking Vaccines to Autism Was Fraud

A study published in The Lancet in 1998 linking the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism was “an elaborate fraud,” according to a report in the BMJ.1 The study,2 published February 28, 1998, was authored by Andrew Wakefield, MD, and 12 others from the Royal Free Medical School in London. It reported...