On May 24th Dr Wakefield was at long last banned from working as a doctor, not for reaching the conclusions he did but for the way in which he reached them.
I was obliged to yield, and I was shaken from head to foot with acute distress. When I did speak, it was only to express an impetuous wish that I had never been born, or never come to Thornfield.
How did Professor Kay feel when she finally completed the work of a lifetime? "I just felt triumphant," she said. "I sometimes doubted that we would ever finish it."
Some institutions have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage.
She thundered down the stairs in those shoes, and as the front door slammed behind her, it came to me-what fantasy I had finally, easily entered this Halloween.