What was the problem with Andrew Wakefield 1998 article in the lancet which spawn the mints that vaccines cause autism is it Wakefield did not obtain inform consent from the parents or guardians of the 12 children whose conditions or disclose and the article option to results were gathered from a clinical trial, not approved by an institutional review board option three the article was unreliable because it was based on the parental recall of only 12 children and fraudulent because Wakefield falsified the data about the children's conditions or final choice Wakefield falsify the names and specialties of his co-authors