Evidence published a decade ago, giving birth to the belief of a connection between vaccines and autism, has been deem outright "fraudulent," according to an viewpoint published Wednesday in the British Medical Journal.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a former British surgeon, available research in 1998 that seemed to establish a link between vaccines and autism. But authors of the editorial confirmed previous suggestion that Wakefield skewed patients' medical records to support his hypothesis that the widely-used measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) combination vaccine was causing autism and touchy bowel disease.
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