Ten of the original 13 authors of a controversial report suggesting a link between autism and the combined MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella have retracted the paper’s interpretations.
The retraction appears in the 6 March issue of The Lancet, which published the original paper. “We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between MMR vaccine and autism as the data were insufficient,” write the 10 authors. Andrew Wakefield, lead author on the original paper, refused to join the retraction. One other author refused, while a third could not be reached.
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