Experts Say Autism Bowel Disease May Not Exist; Lancet Study Discredited

AP -- A new autism disease identified in a flawed paper linking a common children's vaccine to autism, may not exist, new research says. A dozen years ago, British surgeon Andrew Wakefield and colleagues published a study in the journal Lancet on a new bowel disease and proposed a connection between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.

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