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And when we reflect and ask: who were the rogues? The politicians? No, as always with Plan B, they had never thought it would happen. They trusted the scientists. Ahh, so the scientists? No. We thought all science was like school science: absolute, Newtonian and Cartesian. But in reality it’s as uncertain as an essay by Heisenberg. So who then? The media. They who chased click-for-catastrophe. They who peddled hyperbole. They who harangued with ‘gotcha’ questions so nobody could think. They who failed to realise that in the quest for The Story they lost the plot for us all.