Logynon Schering
Investigations

Deakin Briggs inquiry confirms fraud

Reprint Inquiry agrees scientist did fake research on pill The Sunday Times March 29 1987 By Brian Deer THE Australian university at the centre of the contraceptive pill scandal, exposed last September by The Sunday […]

Andrew Wakefield

Eamonn Matthews faces plagiarism complaint

This page is material from the award-winning investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London, with spin-offs for a UK TV network and a top medical journal, which exposed vaccine research cheat Andrew […]

Brian Deer and Samoa prime minister
Andrew Wakefield

Investigating Samoa’s measles crisis

Reprint Samoa’s perfect storm Brian Deer reports from Apia, Samoa The Telegraph, December 19 2019 As parents mourn their dead, Brian Deer unpicks the myths and missteps that allowed measles to traumatise a nation. Crimson, […]

Logynon Schering
Investigations

Contraceptive pill fraud followup

Reprint Selling the pill like soap The Sunday Times, May 17 1987 BRIAN DEER questions the campaign techniques of marketing a new contraceptive pill launched last week IN Chicago last autumn I had the good […]

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Investigations

CDC vaccine boss campaigned before job deal

CDC leader with secret VaxGen deal campaigned for trials like AidsVax Brian Deer’s investigation of the claimed “world’s first AIDS vaccine” unearthed a shocking secret deal between the VaxGen company and a senior manager at […]

Investigations

Raj Persaud plagiarism scandal

Reprint TV doctor Persaud suspended PA News, June 20 2008 Celebrity psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud has been suspended from practising for three months by the General Medical Council for passing off other scholars’ work as […]

Investigations

Raj Persaud found guilty of plagiarism

Reprint TV psychiatrist ‘unfit to practise’ PA News, June 20 2008 Celebrity psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud faces being struck off after the General Medical Council ruled that his fitness to practise was impaired. A GMC […]

Investigations

Launching Pfizer’s Viagra, 1998

Reprint The Sunday Times Magazine, September 6 1998 Sex drugs & rock ‘n’ roll Viagra is the sex sensation of the century. Launched as a cure for impotence, it has now become the latest lifestyle […]

Ryan Wilson TGN1412
Investigations

TGN1412 drug trial: A film by Brian Deer

Dispatches: The drug trial that went wrong Award-winning journalist Brian Deer investigates the circumstances surrounding the infamous drug trial conducted at a private unit in London’s Northwick Park Hospital in March this year. For five […]