In 1998, there was a paper published in The Lancet, one of the world’s oldest and most respected medical journals, by Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor, that purported to show a link between the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine and the development of autism. Numerous other studies have contradicted the findings, and The Lancet withdrew the paper in 2010, after investigations showed the original study was fraudulent and that Wakefield had been bankrolled by a lawyer trying to raise a class-action suit against vaccine manufacturers.
