A new report on the widely discredited research has stated that doctored information about children involved was used for the first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism.

About 10 out of 13 authors renounced the conclusions that were made by the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues but was later published.

Still, parents were horrified by the thought of MMR shot being connected with autism and since that time, vaccination rates of rubella, mumps, and measles have come down drastically.

It was found by a new examination that Wakefield and colleagues altered facts about patients in their study in which comparison was made between hospital records and the reported diagnoses in the paper.

An analysis was made by a British journalist in which it was stated that five out of 12 children who were studied for making the conclusions had previously documented problems.

When the data from medical records and children's parents were compared it was found that all the cases were somehow misrepresented.

Despite repeated calls, Wakefield's comments could not be gathered and at the moment he resides in the U. S. where he enjoys a vocal.