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The British Medical Journal on Wednesday (% January 2011) accused a disgraced British doctor of committing an "elaborate fraud" by faking data in his studies linking vaccines with autism.

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Andrew Wakefield's work convinced thousands of parents that vaccines are dangerous. Such fears have not only caused parents to skip vaccinations for their children, which critics say has led to ongoing outbreaks of measles and mumps, but have forced costly reformulations of many vaccines.

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