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Dispatches:
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In
March 2006, six men were
seriously injured by an
experimental monoclonal
antibody, being tested at a
research unit in London.
Brian Deer investigates for
Channel 4's current affairs
flagship
The
Vioxx connection
When
Merck Inc withdrew its
top-selling drug from
worldwide sale, the company
was swamped with allegations
of a cover-up. In this Sunday
Times investigation, Brian
Deer asks: who knew what...
and when?
Research
scandal revealed
Following
a Sunday Times investigation
by Brian Deer, British
researchers retracted claims
that have caused an
international crisis
by linking the measles, mumps
and rubella vaccine with
autism
Dispatches:
MMR
Brian
Deer's Channel 4 Television
documentary investigation
reveals the bizarre true
story of British gut surgeon
Dr Andrew Wakefield
and his strange campaign
against a children's vaccine
Love
sickness
An
unassuming doctor from
Vancouver, Canada, has been
recruited to launch
"sexual interest
disorder" - a previously
unheard of medical condition
alleged to afflict one in
three women worldwide
Travelling
white
Brian
Deer in West Africa
investigates VSO - funded by
British taxpayers for
international development -
and finds it playing the same
old games that were supposed
to have ended with empire
Matthew and
the burger bug
Escherichia
coli O157 is a deadly
mutation of a once-harmless
germ.
It could be tackled at
source, but as a Lancashire
mother discovered when her
three-year-old got sick, it's
easier to blame the victims
Notting
Hell
How a
London property developer
used charity status to
terrorise the local
community. Brian Deer goes
inside the Westway
Development Trust: 23 acres
of broken dreams and
unanswered questions
Death of
the killer ape
For
decades, the story of human
evolution was told as a
thriller about predatory
aggression. The truth, only
now emerging from research in
East Africa, suggests we are
children of the campfire, not
the club
The VaxGen
experiment
VaxGen
Inc of California's
"world's first Aids
vaccine", AidsVax, made
its owners a fortune. But
Brian Deer's investigation
led to a federal prosecution
and exposed why the product
could never work
End game
Black
gay soccer star Justin
Fashanu braved his sport's
racism and homophobia - but
when he sexually exploited a
teenage boy in a Maryland
apartment it was his final
bid to level an old score
The
vanishing victims
Claims
that the DTP shot caused
brain damage in infants
created the template for
modern health panics. The
real story, exposed here in
Brian Deer's award-winning
investigation, is even more
scary
Hang
'em high
The
British Labour Party was born
on socialist Clydeside,
racked in
the 1990s by allegations of
corruption. After Tony Blair
moved to crush his critics,
this may also be the place to
read the party's future
Tremors in
Tokyo
As a
new prime minister takes
office, outsiders hope for
big changes in Japan, whose
way of life is out of step
with US interests. Brian Deer
reports from Tokyo on why
they could be waiting a long
time
A
secret epidemic
The
antibiotic Septrin (Bactrim,
Septra, Septran,
co-trimoxazole) is among the
most profitable drugs ever.
But Brian Deer's campaign
revealed a horrifying toll of
needless deaths and suffering
Hard
sell
In
1932, the American-born Henry
Wellcome drafted will
documents intended to
maintain his grip on the
pharmaceutical industry, even
from beyond the grave. It was
broken after
Brian Deer's investigation
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