Jeff Hoy, American

12 years later and some real progress is finally being made on this stupid crap.
A prominent British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a 1998 research paper that set off a sharp decline in vaccinations in Britain after the paper’s lead author suggested that vaccines could cause autism.
Why did he do it? Possibly to make himself [...]

Researcher Who Sparked the Vaccine/Autism Scare “Acted Unethically”
The MMR/autism hypothesis took off in 1998 with the publication of a study of 12 autistic children by Canadian gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield.  Wakefield’s study found traces of the measles virus in the guts of children he tested.  He concluded that the virus derived from the MMR vaccination, and [...]