Vaccine/Autism Paper Retracted

The discredited 1998 paper linking the MMR vaccine and autism has been retracted by The Lancet. Lead author Andrew Wakefield sounds like a winner on so many levels:

On another occasion, at his own son’s birthday party in 1999, he took blood from children who were there as guests and paid them each £5 for agreeing to this. He was accused by the panel of showing “callous disregard for the distress and pain that you knew, or ought to have known, the children would suffer.”

Update: Why it won’t help.