**Acknowledgement**

This work was carried out for the MMR vaccine litigation trial at the High Court of Justice in London and at the US Vaccine court. The author acted as an expert witness and was paid by the solicitors acting for the principal defendants SmithKline Beecham Plc and Smith Kline & French Laboratories Ltd, Merck & Co Inc and Sanofi Pasteur MSD Ltd. The author also act‐ ed as an expert witness for the US Department of Justice and was paid.

## **Author details**

Stephen A. Bustin

Address all correspondence to: stephen.bustin@anglia.ac.uk

Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education, Anglia Ruskin University, Bishop Hall Lane, Chelmsford, UK
