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It was the biggest, most complex, media inquiry into medicine. Spread over more than fifteen years, Brian Deer unearthed the pivotal corruption behind the modern anti-vaccine movement: a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal

22.02.04 Revealed: MMR research scandal
22.02.04 Focus: MMR – the truth behind the crisis
22.02.04 The editor: Dr Richard Horton
22.02.04 The investigator: Brian Deer
07.03.04 Key ally of MMR doctor rejects autism link
25.04.04 Fresh doubts cast on MMR study data
14.11.04 MMR scare doctor planned rival vaccine
12.12.04 Doctors in MMR scare face public inquiry
06.03.05 MMR jab scare research dealt a ‘killer blow’
11.09.05 MMR scare doctor faces list of charges
02.04.06 Schoolboy, 13, dies as measles makes a comeback
21.05.06 Just how much new research can we trust?
18.06.06 How a spurious health scare brought an old killer back
18.06.06 MMR: Countdown to a crisis
31.12.06 MMR doctor given legal aid thousands
15.07.07 Memo warned MMR doctor of research flaw
08.02.09 MMR doctor fixed data on autism
08.02.09 Hidden records show MMR truth
08.02.09 How the MMR scare led to the return of measles
08.02.09 MMR – key dates in the crisis
24.01.10 News Review: Truth of the MMR vaccine scandal
31.01.10 Focus: “Callous, unethical and dishonest”
31.01.10 Leading article: Bad science needs good scrutiny
02.02.10 BMJ column: Reflections on investigating Wakefield
21.02.10 MMR doctor ousted
15.04.10 BMJ special report: “Autistic enterocolitis”
23.05.10 Weeping wounds of the MMR scare
05.01.11 BMJ: How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed *
05.01.11 BMJ editorial: Wakefield’s article… was fraudulent
05.01.11 BMJ online: Piltdown medicine *
09.01.11 A warning shot for the cheats in white coats
11.01.11 BMJ: How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money *
11.01.11 BMJ: Timeline *
19.01.11 BMJ: The Lancet’s two days to bury bad news *
23.01.11 Medical editor denounced
09.11.11 BMJ: Pathology reports solve ‘new bowel disease’ riddle
12.08.12 Doctoring the evidence
14.04.13 MMR scandal’s biggest victim – 1,400 Swansea children may catch measles
12.10.14 A warrior mother lost to MMR lies
29.01.17 Trump gives anti-vaccine zealots a shot in the arm
22.07.18 Andrew Wakefield, the vaccine scaremonger who’s snared supermodel Elle Macpherson
20.12.19 Samoa’s perfect storm **
04.09.20 The double agent who brought down the anti-vaccine fanatics ***
21.11.20 Elle Macpherson praises her anti-vax lover ***
25.02.23 The man who launched the vaccine wars */*
25.01.24 I exposed Andrew Wakefield… //*

* BMJ special series: “Secrets of the MMR scare”
** For The Telegraph
*** For the Daily Mail
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