A peer-reviewed research letter by Children's Health Defense (CHD) scientists reported fundamental flaws in a 2002 NEJM study used by vaccine advocates to back up the claim that the MMR vaccine has no link to autism. The "question of vaccines and autism desperately needs to be put back on the table," said CHD Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker.

(Children's Health Defense) A peer-reviewed research letter by Children's Health Defense (CHD) scientists — published this month in Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal — calls into question a 2002 study cited by health officials as "strong evidence" that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

The findings in the decades-old study "do not support rejecting the causal link" between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., and Brian Hooker, Ph.D., said after reanalyzing the 2002 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study.