Editor's note: Alex B. Berezow is the editor ofRealClearScience. He holds a Ph.D. in microbiology.

(CNN) -- Finally, after 13 years of needless controversy, the British Medical Journal determined that Andrew Wakefield's vaccine-autism link constituted an "elaborate fraud."

Having already lost his medical license in the UK for unethical professional conduct, it is now time for him to be prosecuted.