The prestigious British medical journal The Lancet has retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease.
The journal published the controversial paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues in 1998. That, in turn, prompted many British parents to abandon the vaccine, leading to a resurgence of measles.
Subsequent studies found no proof the vaccine is connected to autism.
The retraction comes only a week after Britain's General Medical Council ruled that Wakefield had been dishonest and unethical in gathering data for his study.
Why am I not surprised?
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