At least 1 in 110 children have autism, and while several factors could be to blame, one local mother is outraged about the ground-breaking article being retracted. She says she knows her son has autism because of the MMR vaccine.

Nancy Jackson says her son, Cole, was a healthy newborn baby. "Nothing was wrong, he was perfect, then, he had his MMR, and the lights went out." She remembers the last sentence Cole spoke at the age of two. "Daddy I need another shoe, or daddy I need a shoe, and that was the last sentence we ever heard him say, because then he had his MMR, and literally from one day to the next he was a different child, and he, the jirations, and the out of world look he had, and the constant stemming, he couldn't sleep, it was a different child, it was watching your child go away from you in front of your eyes but him still be there physically."

"We have a couple of parents that work with our program that have already feel very strongly that the mmr shots have had an impact on their child's life," said Dr. Marty Boman, the director of the Kelly Autism Center in Bowling Green says there's an ongoing dispute over the effect of heavy metal poisoning from immunizations, and autism. "There have been multiple studies on this," said Boman, "a lot of them disproving, a lot of them saying that it's supportive of everything, and it's difficult because everyone of them is using different criteria."

Jackson says her son's mercury levels at the time of diagnosis are proof that vaccines can be harmful to children.

"I think vaccines can be good, I think what needs to happen is that they need to be cleaned up, there is still a lot of, I call it; garbage in them, this article being pulled is so disheartening."

Jackson says the retraction of the groundbreaking article has to do with politics, while Dr. Boman says if unethical practices were found, the article should have been taken out because research standards need to be kept high.