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Michael Briggs: pill research cheat
A faker unmasked
Brian Deer reports on a scam
against millions of women
In an audacious fraud, Michael Briggs, an eminent British scientist working for the German drug firm Schering AG, fabricated a string of research papers on the safety of a generation of contraceptive pills taken by 10m women worldwide.
In this international investigation, Brian Deer catches the con-man.
The Sunday Times, 28 September 1986.
First read our front page report on the Briggs fraud
Michael Briggs: pill research cheat
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