2004 - Co-authors of the Wakefield study begin removing their names from the article when they discover Wakefield had been paid by had been paid by lawyers representing parents who planned to sue vaccine manufacturers.
February 2010 - The Lancet, the British medical journal that published Wakefield's study, officially retracts the article. Britain also revokes Wakefield's medical license.
2011 -
Investigative reporter Brian Deer writes a series of articles in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) exposing Wakefield's fraud. The articles state that he used distorted data and falsified medical histories of children that may have led to an unfounded relationship between vaccines and the development of autism.
2011 - The U.S. Public Health Service finds that 63% of parents who refuse and delay vaccines do so for fear their children could have serious side effects.
May 14, 2014 - The Institute of Medicine releases a report "rejecting a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism."
June 17, 2014 - After analyzing 10 studies, all of which looked at whether there was a link between vaccines and autism and involved a total of over one-million children, the University of Sydney publishes a report saying there is no correlation between vaccinations and the development of autism.
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