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The only thing in quotes from O'Leary is that there is no causal link established.

From the BBC:

The comments come just hours after one of the key researchers in the MMR safety debate issued a statement saying the triple vaccine is safe.
Professor John O'Leary, of Trinity College Dublin, has investigated studies suggesting a link between the vaccine and autism.
He has been widely reported as being against the three-in-one vaccine.
But in a statement, he denied his studies ever suggested MMR was unsafe.
"This research in no way establishes any link between the MMR vaccine and autism," he said.
"We advocate the use of MMR to protect children from measles, mumps and rubella."
He added: "It is wrong for parents not to immunise their children."

So why are we even having this discussion? It seems to me that if everybody agrees there is no link between MMR and autism, the issue is settled.

So why are we even having this discussion? It seems to me that if everybody agrees there is no link between MMR and autism, the issue is settled.

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged."

-- Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.

I'll mark you and your cohort down as non-Jeffersonian. And you claim to be medical professionals. Geesh.