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This
website is a portfolio of Brian Deer's work, and a means
of making resources available in the public interest. The
homepage and sitemap group together selected journalism by Brian Deer, almost entirely
from The Sunday Times of London. Another index groups
examples of Brian Deer's work from the 1980s, when he
pioneered the specialist beat of social affairs journalism. These stories are still
consulted daily by visitors. Brian Deer's investigations in the 1990s included an inquiry and campaign over the antibiotic known, among other things, as Bactrim, Septra and Septrin. The material on this drug includes the most frequently-visited pages at briandeer.com, plus an email board on side-effects, updated constantly. Many pages at this site, also very frequently consulted, concen VaxGen Inc of Brisbane, California, and its "world's first Aids vaccine", AidsVax. More provide information on another vaccine, MMR, and how, following a Deer investigation, the Lancet apologised for publishing research suggesting that it was linked to autism. Further pages add materials from Brian Deer's November 2004 television documentary - MMR: What they didn't tell you - which exposed misconduct concerning the vaccine by a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield. A group of pages presents research materials for a Sunday Times investigation into the withdrawn Merck painkiller Vioxx, while another includes video of Deer's September 2006 documentary The drug trial that went wrong, plus a home movie YouTube clip from the February 2007 Royal Television Society journalism awards ceremony. Finally, as a community service to a West London neighbourhood, are pages on an obscure property developer called the Westway Development Trust, of little interest to anyone not directly involved. If this website has
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