Once upon a time, a scientist named Dr. Andrew Wakefield published in the medical journal The Lancet that he had discovered a link between autism and vaccines.<\/p>\n
After years of controversy and making parents mistrust vaccines, along with collecting $674,000 from lawyers who would benefit from suing vaccine makers, it was discovered he had made the whole thing up. The Lancet publicly apologized and reported that further investigation led to the discovery that he had fabricated\u00a0everything<\/em>.<\/p>\n In the intervening years, millions have been spent on studying this further to see if there was anything that could connect autism and vaccines. This is what they found.<\/p>\n If you think science is a real thing, you could share this. I’ll owe you one.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This story was\u00a0originally published on Upworthy\u00a0June 27,\u00a02014.<\/em><\/p>\n Infographic produced by\u00a0NowSourcing\u00a0with an assist from Adam Mordecai. You can read the news story on how the whole thing collapsed\u00a0over at CNN. Adam and\u00a0his team did a thorough fact-checking of their research.\u00a0You can find links to all the sources here. Thumbnail image by\u00a0o5com\/Flickr.<\/em><\/p>\n