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Published online 23 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040223-1
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Link between vaccine and autism "entirely flawed"
Medical journal says it regrets publishing Wakefield's research on MMR.
A series of allegations have been brought against Andrew Wakefield, the physician whose research and press statements first brought into the public eye a possible link between the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
One allegation points out that Wakefield had been given £55,000 (US$103,000) for a legal-aid project to investigate a possible link between MMR and autism, after several parents suspected the vaccine had negatively affected their children.
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