Lancet retracts paper linking MMR vaccine to autism

The 12-year-old study linked autism with the MMR vaccine. The research subsequently had been discredited.

Last week, the study’s lead author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, was found to have acted unethically in conducting the research.

The General Medical Council, which oversees doctors in Britain, said that “there was a biased selection of patients in The Lancet paper” and that his “conduct in this regard was dishonest and irresponsible.”