Brian Deer sent "award" as squandered energy and hope sour into bitterness

This page is material from the award-winning investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London, the UK’s Channel 4 TV network and BMJ, the British Medical Journal, which exposed vaccine research fraudster Andrew Wakefield | Investigation summary

With the collapse of Andrew Wakefield's campaign against the MMR vaccine, thousands of parents - many litigants - were stripped of baseless hopes that they could pin their child's autism on supposedly sinister, corrupt forces, and perhaps even win a large sum of money. In some cases, years of energy were wasted that, but for Wakefield's false claims, might have been productively channelled