The British medical journal, Lancet, has officially retracted a 1998 study, which claimed to link the MMR vaccine with autism in children.  Originally published by London gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the flawed study has been retracted amid claims that he lied about his methods of patient selection and committed other ethics abuses during the course of his research.  Several other studies, larger and better designed, have already disproven the study's claims.  No credible scientific study now exists linking MMR or any other vaccine with the development of autism.

To read the retraction in The Lancet, click here.

To read an article in Time Magazine about the implications, click here.

   --  David Epstein, MD