Actually the name of the authors is rather notorious in the field. At your leisure do read the following link and links therein. At some point the author of this paper sued a number of pharmaceutical and biotech companies (I think the idea was to do it in alphabetical order) for an alleged patent infringement in a classic case of “patent trolling”.
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/glaxosmithkline-v-classen-immunotherapies-inc/
and here
The authors of the manuscript published a number of “studies” in so-called peer-reviewed journals on the subject, and, unfortunately these reports has been republished with no critical analysis in mainstream media, eg The Wall Street Journal.
The research activities of the authors were extensively discussed in
“Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All”
By Paul A. Offit, which I believe is available on googlebooks.