— Recently, a leading British medical journal, The Lancet, retracted a twelve-year old research paper that claimed a link between the MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) vaccine and autism. The paper’s publication sparked much controversy in autism research, and it’s retraction has been even bigger news. The retraction of a scientific publication is a statement of error by a peer-reviewed journal, admitting that the original paper should not have been published due to either fraud and misconduct by the authors, or to unintentional scientific error. How did a paper that has received so much attention in the past 12 years get retracted from a prestigious journal like the Lancet? How does this affect future research in autism? Continue reading When the Science is Wrong: No Link Between the MMR Vaccine and Autism