Retracting the MMR Vaccine-Autism Link
This week, the Lancet retracted the originally published, now famous, paper by Andrew Wakefield that connected the MMR vaccine with Autism. Although there was been substantial skepticism over the decades, this presents a monumental discreditation to the vaccine-autism controversy that has been a major moment in the pseudo-science community. As stated by the BBC:
The medical journal which originally published the discredited research linking autism and MMR has now issued a full retraction of the paper.
The Lancet said it now accepted claims made by the researchers were “false”. It comes after Dr Andrew Wakefield, the lead researcher in the 1998 paper, was ruled last week to have broken research rules by the General Medical Council.
The publication caused vaccination rates to plummet, resulting in a rise in measles.
