RT Journal
A1 Rivara FP, Christakis DA
T1 THe march of science
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2007
FD December 1
VO 161
IS 12
SP 1214
OP 1215
DO 10.1001/archpedi.161.12.1214
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.161.12.1214
AB 
In 1998, the British gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCPath, and his colleagues published an article in the Lancet on an association between enterocolitis and autism and suggested that it was related to measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.1 Panic ensued. Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates fell, and Britain experienced a rise in cases of measles. The study by Wakefield and colleagues had many flaws, as subsequent researchers pointed out, and several other well-conducted analyses have since failed to find any link at all.2 In addition, there were serious allegations about the ethics and methods of the study.3 In 2004, 10 of the 13 authors of the 1998 Lancet article retracted the interpretation of the data.4