RISK TO 10 MILLION WOMEN A faker unmasked, by Brian Deer

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 contraceptives taken by 10m women worldwide. In this international investigation, Brian Deer catches the con-man. The Sunday Times, 28 September 1986

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