The Daily Mail has recently been praised by Matt Hancock and others for coming out against the anti-vax campaign. That is good news, but those with longer memories than Mr Hancock can remember that it was not always so clear.
Take this story from as an example. Under the heading "New MMR link is found with autism" it is distinctly favourable to Mr Wakefield, calling him a "specialist" who was "forced out of his job". As I understand it he was a surgeon so not sure he can really be called a "specialist" in a story about autism. Over the years the Mail published a number of articles with a similar line, implying some kind of unreasonable cover up, like this one, or this one.
In 2003 Melanie Philips was particularly insistent along these lines (11 March 2003).
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