vaccines and their links to other physical or developmental disorders, but this was the first time that there is a specific length drawn to autism. that paper in the "lancet" involved the measles mumps rubella vaccine, the mmr vaccine and their lead author was a british gastroenterologist named andrew wakefield. excuse me. he was one of 13 authors on the study, and by the british medical journal report, or three-part series that started coming out about a month ago, said that wakefield had committed outright fraud when he submitted this report. the stories that then resulted on tv and in the newspaper, newspapers, was a report, that linked autism and vaccines debunked, which is both completely inaccurate and i think completely irresponsible. this was a study that had been debunked years earlier. and are wakefield had lost his medical license as a result of the test that he performed on children in the study that did not hold up. we have known for years that he had taken out a patent for an alternate measles vaccines just before you publish this initial study in the "lancet." we also know that 12 children who appeared in that study had not been consecutively referred as was initially