TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe march of science
AU  - Rivara FP, Christakis DA
Y1  - 2007/12/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.161.12.1214
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 1214
EP  - 1215
VL  - 161
IS  - 12
N2  - 
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

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.161.12.1214
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.161.12.1214
ER  -