In the United States, you are currently having your own vaccine scare. Jim Carrey and friends appear regularly on TV and in the newspapers to tell the nation of their concerns on complex matters of epidemiology and immunology. Foreigners—let me tell you a secret—like to sneer at Americans sometimes, for their crude popular debate. This is not justified. In the U.K., our vaccine scare was epic. It is coming to a close, but in the hope that you can learn something from it (and because one of its leading figures, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, has now moved to Texas and become your problem) here is the
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