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Retraction from "the lancet," the study discredited, and parents, well, they are fuming today. >> i find it a -- the whole debate on whether or not vaccinations, which are supposed to prevent your children from getting nasty diseases, to a potential that they're getting nasty diseases or they're getting something like autism, to be reprehensible and i hate to even go down that path as a father of a 5-year-old who is in the autism spectrum. >> as you can imagine, this controversy is far, far over, and we'll get a detailed report from our alina cho just a little bit later this hour. so, "pushi...

Very closely for you. looking closely at fallout from the bombshell retraction of the study linking autism to vaccines. britain's pretige juls medical journal, "the lancet" announced the move yesterday. joining me live from nashville, dr. william schaffner, he's the chairman of medicine from vanderbilt's medical center. you say the story between the supposed link between vaccines and autism is over. why do you say that? >> well, don, i think it is over now. the retraction, as elizabeth said, of a journal article by the lan"the lancet" is huge, vey rare. a lot of studies looked at the link, dif...

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So, i have been seeing some of the interviews and listening -- reading something about it. have we heard here at cnn from dr. wakefield at all? >> we did. we got a statement and i'd like to read part of it. dr. wakefield says "the allegations against me and my colleagues are unfounded and unjust. research in to that possible connection between autism and the vaccines is still going on." i think it's interesting that he talks about the allegations between him and his colleagues. he did have many, more than a dozen co-authors, most of those co-authors disavowed that paper a long time ago. >> so,...

Retraction and what it means. >> here's what happened. in 1998 a researcher named andrew wakefield published a study that showed that there could be a link between autism and childhood vaccines. as you can imagine, a lot of parents really freaked out about this. so that's what happened in 1998. and in 2010, "the lancet," which is the folks who published the study in the first place, they retracted it. they basically said it wasn't done properly and they retracted it. this is what they said. "it has become clear that several elements of the 1999 elements of the paper by wakefield, are inaccurat...