How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Exploring the Development of Vaccine Platforms, With a Particular Focus on the COVID-19 Pandemic.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026
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2. Past and Present Vaccinations in Sweden.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026
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3. From Confidence to Coverage: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Vaccination in Central and Eastern Europe.Vaccines · 2026
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4. Paracetamol in pregnancy: Navigating clinical uncertainty and avoiding the communication pitfalls of the "measles, mumps, and rubella" - autism controversy: A narrative review.EXCLI journal · 2026
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5. Exaggerating the risks of vaccination is a dangerous health threat.BioImpacts : BI · 2026
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6. Managing allergy-related COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A multi-methods analysis of practitioner notes and referral outcomes.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025
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7. Publication integrity: what is it, why does it matter, how it is safeguarded and how could we do better?Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2025
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8. Global challenges and solutions to achieving and sustaining measles and rubella elimination.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2024
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9. A Call to Action on Assessing and Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence Applications for Mental Health.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023
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10. Users' Reactions to Announced Vaccines Against COVID-19 Before Marketing in France: Analysis of Twitter Posts.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023
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11. Profile of autism spectrum disorders in Morocco: cross-sectional retrospective study of parents of children with autism.Medicine and pharmacy reports · 2023
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12. Facilitating Middle School Students' Reasoning About Vaccines.Science & education · 2023
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13. To vaccinate or not: The relationship between conscientiousness and individual attitudes toward vaccination in real-life contexts.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2022
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14. Toward controlling of a pandemic: How self-control ability influences willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine.Personality and individual differences · 2022
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15. Reducing Health Misinformation in Science: A Call to Arms.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2022
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16. [Public Resistance to Vaccination During Epidemics: The Example of COVID-19Resistência da população à vacinação em tempos de epidemias: sobre a COVID-19].Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022
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17. Lessons Learned from Publicizing and Retracting an Erroneous Hypothesis on the Mumps, Measles, Rubella (MMR) Vaccination with Unethical Implications.Journal of Korean medical science · 2021
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18. Adherence to Immunization: Rebuttal of Vaccine Hesitancy.Acta haematologica · 2021
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19. Vaccines and autism: a preliminary qualitative study on the beliefs of concerned mothers in Italy.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2020
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20. Neuroethics for Fantasyland or for the Clinic? The Limitations of Speculative Ethics.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2020
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Wakefield's article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent.2011
• Commented on by
  Assuring research integrity in the wake of Wakefield.2011
• Commented on by
  MMR scare. Are the GMC, news media, and BMJ the right tribunals?2011
• Commented on by
  The Imperative to Vaccinate.2018

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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