Measles and autism - Applying such casual standards to a major medical story is astonishing

It’s like a mad extension of that “mistakes” and “bad choices” scenario.

That’s the one where a guy convicted of 400 cases of rape, murder, and arson is interviewed when he has finally told the cops the whole blood-soaked story and, by way of commentary, nods sagely and says “I’ve made mistakes”. To which the answer is: “No, sunshine, you made mistake, singular. You got caught. Apart from that, everything you did was pre-meditated fully cognisant evil.” Or he confesses to having made bad choices. That one brings steam out my ears. Bad choices? Like life was a dodgy buffet and he’d had the bad luck to pick the sushi that was past its best?

What the English Independent newspaper did in response to the outbreak of measles in Wales that has killed one man and done a great deal of permanent damage to others who became infected was to toddle along to Andrew Wakefield, hero of an earlier time, and ask him what he thought about the outbreak.