The famous study by a British medical doctor Andrew Wakefield has officially been retracted. In 1998, Wakefield published a paper in The Lancet, the oldest, most respected medical journal in the UK, stating a possible link between autism and vaccinations. He didn't come right out and say that vaccinations caused autism, he only suggested a possible link.

The study was done at an excellent hospital in the UK, and it was published in the oldest medical journal, leading the study to be a shot heard around the world. Since then hundreds have been hospitalized for not being vaccinated, and children have died from the measles, a disease almost wiped out a generation before due to vaccinations. Organizations who promote immunizations have to spend time and resources addressing parents' concerns about vaccinating their children. Many parents of autistic children have to defend their decisions about vaccinating their children. All of this was caused because a man was paid by a couple of lawyers to conduct a study about a possible link between autism and vaccinations.

The article in Parenting magazine with the details of the retractions can be found here.