Most of the scientific community has known for years that the idea of a link between vaccines and autism is simply wrong. "Dr." Andrew Wakefield somehow managed to get his study claiming a link between the two published in the British medical journal The Lancet in 1994, a lapse on their part. In the years since, based on the tireless and, I would say, heroic, efforts of investigative journalist Brian Deer, The Lancet made a full retraction of Wakefield's paper in February of last year. The UK General Medical Council investigated, and subsequently condemned Wakefield in light of Deer's work, calling the good doctor, "callous, unethical and dishonest." Strong words from a major medical organization. And now, we have a study done by Deer, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) further discussing and dismissing Wakefield's work, calling it an "elaborate fraud." Surely with all the continual and overwhelming denunciations of this man a...
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