stated in 2004 that it should not have
published the paper. The General Medical
Council, an independent regulator
for doctors in the UK, found that Wake-
if there was evidence to support a litigation
case by parents who believed that
the vaccine had harmed their children.
In 2010, the Lancet formally retracted
the paper after the British General Med-
was struck from the medical register in Great Britain and may
no longer practice medicine there. In January 2011, a series of re-
several ways. A large number of research studies have been conducted
to assess the safety of the MMR vaccine, and none of them
has found a link between the vaccine and autism.
“Green Our Vaccines”
Thimerosal, a mercury containing compound used as a preservative
in vaccines, has also been the center of a vaccination
-
idence that small amounts of thimerosal in vaccines cause harm,
in July 1999, leading U.S. public health and medical organizations
and vaccine manufacturers agreed that thimerosal should
be reduced or eliminated from vaccines as a precautionary measure.
In 2001, The Institute of Medicine’s Immunization Safety
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