Above: page views from a Sunday Times Magazine investigation by Brian Deer into
the death of a child
Brian Deer's investigation
of Andrew Wakefield and the MMR vaccine
fraud was the subject of a special 2009 NBC
Dateline programme,
fronted by Today Show anchor Matt Lauer, produced
by Ami Schmitz
Exposed as a
charlatan and research cheat, Wakefield embarked
on a
bizarre campaign of deception, exposed in this
2010 review by Deer
Here Andrew Wakefield
replies. Unusually, the show was repeated
in 2010 after Deer's investigation was vindicated
by a UK tribunal
which found Wakefield to be
"dishonest", "unethical" and
"callous"
This clip from a
Dispatches current affairs programme by Deer
shows
him confronting the head of a company which
caused serious injuries