Wakefield

Two weeks ago the former England Sevens player set a new Guinness World Record at Thornes Park Athletic Stadium in Wakefield, running 50m while carrying a bag of coal in just 8.06 seconds.

The discredited idea that childhood vaccines are linked to autism first gained mainstream attention after a paper published in 1998 in the medical journal The Lancet by British doctor Andrew Wakefield.

Wakefield was later found to have financial conflicts of interest and the UK's General Medical Council found that he falsified his results.

As I reported in 2014, its original source was an article published in 1998 in the British medical journal the Lancet by a group led by physician Andrew Wakefield.

The paper has been retracted by the Lancet, 10 of its 12 authors have disavowed its findings, and Wakefield was stripped of his medical license in the U.K.