Are we really still talking about Wakefield's autism con? May 27, 2016 Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH, associate professor and chair of Community Health and Prevention, authors a blog post on the Philly.com blog The Public's Health discussing a film trying to resuscitate the unsupported belief that autism is caused by vaccination, specifically the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine (MMR). Study after study after study has shown this to be an outright false claim, he writes. View Story