Fabricated Vaccination Study: Will This Shed Light on the Ongoing Debate on Vaccination and Autism?

The on-going debate regarding vaccination and autism has yet to be resolved as several pieces of evidence pointed out that the two has no correlation. Get a glimpse of Dr. Andrew Wakefield's controversial study which can potentially pave the way for the answers with regards to the on-going debate.

Most parents are skeptical about having their children vaccinated due to several studies pointing out that vaccination does more harm than good. One study done by Dr. Andrew Wakefield which was previously published in the Lancet suggests that vaccination is highly correlated to autism.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield's study implied that vaccination among infants can lead to autism. His study on vaccination and autism caused a stir in the medical world as it was subjected to countless controversies. The on-going debate in vaccination and its autism risk among children was eventually scrapped as it turned out that Dr. Andrew Wakefield's study was in fact, fabricated.

Upworthy noted that Lancet published Dr. Andrew Wakefield's paper in 1998. The study mentioned that a connection between vaccination and autism was found. Though the study may be believable, there are a few concerns which deemed the study questionable.

It was discovered that Dr. Wakefield's study on autism and vaccination does not have any statistical basis. It was also mentioned that there was no control group involved when the autism causing vaccines was done. The study was only derived based on people's memories, which is not statistically valid.

The succeeding studies from 1999 to 2012 were not able to find any correlation between vaccination and autism. The study that was done on 2012 and had a review of 27 cohort studies. The 27 studies were composed of 17 case-control studies, 6 self-controlled studies, 5-time series trials, 2 ecological studies, 1 case-crossover trial. A total of 14,700,000 children were involved but none of the studies came up with a conclusion connecting vaccination and its side effects on autism.