| Defining
a media specialty
During the
1980s, a new beat came to
prominence in British
journalism, pioneered by
Brian Deer at The Sunday
Times, the UK's first social
affairs correspondent |
| Septrin
- Bactrim - Septra
Thousands of
people complained over
this blockbuster antibiotic
drug, following an
investigation and
campaign by Brian Deer
calling for restrictions
on its prescribing |
| AidsVax:
CDC chief busted
When people pass
confidential documents,
it's often the beginning
of an interesting story,
as with this US biotech
company, VaxGen,
claiming the world's
first Aids vaccine |
| The
Westway charity scandal
This bizarre
London property developer
was probed as a service
to a West London community
which had been suffering
for years |
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| Wellcome
stranger:
Nobel laureate
Dr George H Hitchings Jr,
inventor of
Septrin-Bactrim
ingredient trimethoprim,
interviewed at the
Burroughs-Wellcome
headquarters at Research
Triangle Park, Chapel
Hill, North Carolina.
(Photograph: Brian Deer) |
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| Ho-ho
Hoey:
Kate Hoey, the Labour
member of parliament for Lambeth,
Vauxhall, is on the case
for the camera with a
troubled constituent. But
her critics complain that
she is little more than a
carpetbagger, who won't
live locally (Photograph:
Brian Deer) |
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| WHAT
THE PRESS SAYS ABOUT
BRIAN DEER |
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| "Prize-winning
investigative
journalist" - Washington
Post |
| "Like
a bull pup with a taste
for trousers" - Guardian |
| "Brilliant
but mercurial
investigative
reporter" - Independent |
| "One
of Britain's top
investigative
journalists" - Sunday
Times |
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| The
vanishing victims:
Before the current debate about the risks
or safety of the MMR triple
vaccine, for measles, mumps and rubella,
a similar controversy raged about routine
DTP or DPT
triple shots for diphtheria, pertussis
and tetanus. In this inquiry Brian Deer
dug up facts that changed his earlier views. The Sunday Times
Magazine November 1 1998 |
| Travelling
white:
Voluntary Service Overseas, or VSO,
is supposed to be an overseas
development body, making a
difference in helping the poor. The truth
is that since it was launched with a letter from a
bishop it has run adventure
holidays at old outposts of the British empire.
The Sunday Times Magazine April 26 1998 |
| Death of
the killer ape:
The traditional narrative about our origins
tells of weapons and violence as the spur
to human evolution. New
evidence from field research in East
Africa, however, suggests that the rise
of homo erectus nearly
2m years ago was driven by different -
more peaceful - concerns. The Sunday
Times Magazine March 9 1997 |
| The VaxGen
experiment:
Barely had the cause of Aids
been established, two years after the first cases in 1981, than the
race for a vaccine began.
VaxGen Inc of San Francisco ran the first
trial, but its president, Dr
Donald Francis, fumbled basic
questions, and vice-president Dr
William Heyward, was prosecuted. The Sunday Times
Magazine October 3 1999 |
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