The connection between vaccines and autism was fueled in the late 1990s when a study by British physician Andrew Wakefield claimed to identify a clear correlation. However, that study was later refuted, and Wakefield was eventually stripped of his medical license in Great Britain when it was revealed that he fraudulently misrepresented statistics from the report.

Since Wakefield's flawed study, 18 separate studies have investigated the possible connection between autism and vaccines.

Alison Singer, founder and president of Autism Science Foundation and a mother of a 13-year-old with autism, points to those research efforts as the evidence needed to emphatically support the use of childhood vaccines.

"They have all come back showing the same thing," Singer said in an interview published at CNN.com. "There is no link between vaccines and autism."

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