MMR vaccine
In the 1980s Fudenberg began saying the MMR vaccine causes autism; a fringe position which led to the MMR vaccine controversy. Scientific consensus concludes that no evidence links the vaccine to the development of autism, and that the vaccine's benefits greatly outweigh its risks. Fudenberg published his research in the fringe journal "Biotherapy" (now discontinued) in 1996, concluding that "Fifteen of the [True Autism] patients developed symptoms within