[bpsdb] Guest post by British doctor DeeTee. See more by DeeTee here.

If it isn’t enough that Wales is witnessing its biggest outbreak of measles for several decades (courtesy of rampant antivaccination propaganda that resulted in very low levels of MMR vaccine coverage), now we have to endure the spectre of an English company setting up shop in the epicentre of the epidemic in order to make money from worried parents by flogging them single measles jabs.

Well I'm moving house again, hence the paucity of posts lately, but while I've been busy, two awesome developments in my blogging career have come along. Firstly, Alom Shaha has released his documentary "Why Is Science Important?", and I'm delighted to say that you can see quotes from the article I wrote for his project featured. As if that wasn't enough, Ben Goldacre paid me a huge compliment by featuring my blog on a piece he presented for ITN London News - yes, my blog has been on television! I would write more, and I will later, but for the rest of the afternoon I'm going to sit back and enjoy my ego being massaged!

One of the more disturbing and insidious canards to escape from the propaganda machine of the anti-vaccine lobby in the last several years, is the suggestion that Measles simply isn't a dangerous disease anymore in the modern-day West. Since Measles is practically harmless, they say, it follows that the benefit of any vaccine is outweighed by the slightest risk.