THE
INVESTIGATOR: BRIAN DEER
The
Sunday Times (London) February 22 2004
Brian
Deer spent four months investigating the MMR
scare. His previous assignments for this newspaper
have led to drugs being withdrawn, doctors being
prosecuted and new laws being enacted.
As
one of Britain’s top investigative journalists,
he has also had to work under assumed names because
pharmaceutical companies have tried to block his
inquiries.
“Doctors
and lawyers have grossed £15m from the legal aid
fund in the six years since the Lancet paper on MMR
appeared,” he said yesterday. “Thousands of
children have gone unvaccinated because of a paper
The Lancet now accepts was fatally flawed.”
