I’ve been a pediatrician for over 30 years, and I’ve never seen so much confusion and fear about routine vaccines as I do right now.

In 1998, a fraudulent paper was published suggesting a relationship between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism. The paper was retracted in 2010, and the doctor who pushed it lost his license.

To my knowledge no vaccine has been studied as much as the MMR. There is no causal connection between it and autism.

I thought we had put that rumor to bed years ago. Instead, the idea that the MMR vaccine may be even more dangerous than measles, the primary disease it targets, is being discussed by our nation’s Health and Human Services secretary.

Now I’m having parents refuse the MMR vaccine at their child’s one-year physical because they’ve heard it has side........

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