Doctor Who Fooled the World:: Science, Deception, and the War on VaccinesIn February 1998, a then unknown British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, published a scientific paper in a top medical journal, The Lancet, that struck at the peace of young families everywhere. Researching twelve developmentally challenged children, he claimed to have found evidence that the lifesaving three in one vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella, MMR, caused a frightening ""new syndrome"" of autism and bowel disease. Parents were terrified,