In its ruling, the General Medical Council found Wakefield had breached "fundamental principles of research medicine" when carrying out investigations into a possible link between the two.
The GMC ruling highlighted instances where Wakefield had ordered investigations on children when he had no paediatric qualifications, and without Research and Ethics Committee approval.
It also condemned Wakefield for acting "contrary to the clinical interests" of nine children when he ordered research to be undertaken on them.
In addition, the ruling criticised Wakefield for taking blood samples for research purposes from a group of children at a birthday party, which the GMC's fitness to practise panel deemed an "inappropriate social setting".
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