Founder of Anti-Vaccination Movement 'Acted Unethically'

On the skepticism side of things, the father of the antivaccination movement was shown to have acted unethically in his overall research method. This included improper sampling procedures, directly paying for children's blood samples at his own child's birthday party (what a party!), and performing medical procedures in which he was not trained. Read ahead (here, here):

The doctor who first suggested a link between MMR vaccinations and autism acted unethically, the official medical regulator has found. Dr Andrew Wakefield's 1998 Lancet study caused vaccination rates to plummet, resulting in a rise in measles - but the findings were later discredited. The General Medical Council ruled he had acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly" in doing his research.

The 1998 paper caused a plummet in MMR vaccinations and a resurgence of the diseases that it so prevents (shown above). Since the publication of the study, scientific literature has shown definitively that there is absolutely no link between MMR vaccine administration and development of autism.

To think that this 'controversy' is still around after all these years. Sigh.