Dr. Andrew Wakefield wrote a medical journal in The Lancet in 1988 arguing that there was a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. This medical examination was later withdrawn because it was performed incorrectly. In a decision aid produced by researchers specializing in vaccination and communication sciences, they stated that “the MMR vaccine does not cause inflammatory bowel disease or autism”. (Leask) There is actually no scientific evidence to suggest that autism is caused by the MMR vaccine. The study that supposedly linked the vaccine to autism cannot be taken into account because it was done incorrectly and was