I’ve tried to stay away from the vaccine debate, but it’s reached a psychological tipping point for me.

However, it now seems that the person most answerable for the top of Ms. Plame’s CIA profession is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson selected to go public with an explosive charge, claiming — falsely, because it turned out — that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-procuring in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officers. He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists equivalent to Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been despatched on such a mission and that the reply would level to his wife. He diverted duty from himself and his false costs by claiming that President Bush’s closest aides had engaged in an unlawful conspiracy.

The Study of Lungs brings us to Gill Blog’s glorious dialogue of managing SARS …