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Pill switch urged after Briggs scandal

Reprint Research reveals birth pill risk for 2m British women The Sunday Times, September 18 1988 By Brian Deer, Social Affairs Correspondent FAMILY doctors are to be urged to switch more than 2m British women […]

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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 […]

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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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Exposed: Michael Briggs contraceptive pill fraud

Reprint Exposed: the bogus work of Professor Briggs The Sunday Times, 28 September 1986. Professor Michael Briggs, an eminent British scientist, faked major research on leading brands of contraceptive pill now taken by 10m women […]

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Michael Briggs and a pharmaceutical fraud

The reprint below is one of a short series at this website illustrating the breadth of social affairs: a new journalism beat pioneered in the 1980s by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London […]

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Michael Briggs: birth pill fraud revealed

Reprint: The pill: professor’s safety tests were faked The Sunday Times, September 28 1986 By Brian Deer Social Affairs Correspondent RESEARCH into the long-term side effects of a new generation of contraceptive pills was fabricated […]