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 Wakefield | Summary | Read the book

Research cheat throws in the towel

Between 31 January 2005 and 25 January 2007, this website, briandeer.com, was in jeopardy due to a baseless claim for libel, brought by Andrew Wakefield, utilising lawyers made available to him free of charge by the Medical Protection Society, which was also spending enormous sums of doctors’ money in similar meritless actions against Channel 4 and Times Newspapers.

Despite unlimited liability, however, Brian Deer refused to capitulate and, after one discontinuance, this notice and compensation followed

Andrew Wakefield discontinues

Andrew Wakefield discontinues lawsuit

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