Well I'm glad the parent posted that, because I'd not heard the info from your comment before, only that Wakefield was connecting thiomersal (a mercury containing compound) with autism; the compound then being removed in USA with no downward change in autism cases.

In response to the link, blaming Wakefield seems counter-productive, we need to take a more nuanced approach to disagreement and avoid "throwing the baby [area of research] out with the bathwater [discredited hypothesis]". Seems like there's a socio-political problem that needs fixing there and blaming Wakefield for our response to his fraud seems to go too far.