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Brian Deer is a British investigative journalist, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine, and social issues for The Sunday Times.
Brian Deer is a British-born investigative journalist, best known for inquiries into medicine, the drug industry, and social issues for The Sunday Times, and for his books 'The Doctor Who Fooled the World' and 'Blind Trial'
Jan 6, 2011 · Brian Deer, a journalist, reveals how Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues fabricated data and misled the public over the MMR vaccine and autism. He also exposes the conflicts of interest and the legal motives behind the Lancet paper that triggered a worldwide panic.
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Andrew Wakefield unmasked. Journalists (including The Sunday Times’s) scrambled to showcase Wakefield’s warnings and to spotlight parents’ fears. But in September 2003 reporter Brian Deer was assigned to investigate the controversy and unearthed a scandal of astounding proportions.
In November 2004, Channel 4 broadcast a one-hour Dispatches investigation by reporter Brian Deer; the Toronto Star said Deer had "produced documentary evidence that Wakefield applied for a patent on a single-jab measles vaccine before his campaign against the MMR vaccine, raising questions about his motives".
Feb 28, 2023 · An investigation by the journalist Brian Deer showed that Wakefield had misstated the medical history of several of the children, who had begun to show symptoms before their MMR vaccine, or a...
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Oct 27, 2020 · Brian Deer, an investigative journalist, exposes the fraud and misconduct of Andrew Wakefield, a discredited doctor who linked autism and MMR vaccine. The book traces Wakefield's rise and fall, and the impact of his work on vaccine scepticism and public health.
