The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.

Scientists and organizations across the world spent a great deal of time and money refuting the results of a minor paper in the Lancet and exposing the scientific fraud that formed the basis of the paper. Appallingly, parents across the world did not vaccinate their children out of fear of the risk of autism, thereby exposing their children to ...

Twelve years after publishing a landmark study that turned tens of thousands of parents around the world against the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine because of an implied link between vaccinations and autism, The Lancet has retracted the paper.

2011年1月6日 · In a series of articles starting this week, and seven years after first looking into the MMR scare, journalist Brian Deer now shows the extent of Wakefield’s fraud and how it was perpetrated (doi:10.1136/bmj.c5347). Drawing on interviews, documents, and data made public at the GMC hearings, Deer shows how Wakefield altered …

1999年9月11日 · Taylor et al tested the hypothesis that there should be no temporal clustering of first parenteral concerns with measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination. They identified a statistically significant excess risk by 6 months after MMR, which they dismiss, post hoc, as indicating parental recall bias.

2025年3月19日 · But in 1998, a paper describing 12 children who received the MMR and later developed autism or other disorders planted seeds of doubt about the vaccine’s safety. The paper was later retracted, and several large studies have since shown no association between vaccines and autism, but the idea persists among some groups that vaccines cause autism.

In Europe in 2018, uptake of the Measles-Mumps-and-Rubella (MMR) vaccine increased, with more children vaccinated than ever before, but in the same year, a record number of individuals contracted the measles virus across the continent [6].

2025年3月14日 · In 2019, 2-dose MMR vaccination among US kindergarteners peaked at 95.2%. 3 In 2023, MMR coverage decreased to 92.7%, with substantial geographic heterogeneity and many regions reporting much lower immunization levels. 3 A recent analysis of county-level MMR vaccination rates in 37 states that publicly report county-level vaccination data ...

2011年1月6日 · In the first part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer exposes the bogus data behind claims that launched a worldwide scare over the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, and reveals how the appearance of a link with autism was manufactured at a London medical school. When I broke the news to the father of child 11, at first he did not believe me.

2025年1月30日 · The article in The Lancet claimed that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine caused autism. The methodological flaws were readily apparent to followers of medical research: among many ...