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Dispatches:
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In March 2006,
six men were seriously injured by an
experimental monoclonal antibody,
being tested at a research unit in
London. Brian Deer investigates for
Channel 4's current affairs flagship
The Vioxx
connection
When Merck Inc
withdrew its top-selling drug from
worldwide sale, the company was
swamped with allegations of a
cover-up. In this Sunday Times
investigation, Brian Deer asks: who
knew what... and when?
Research
scandal revealed
Following a
Sunday Times investigation by Brian
Deer, British researchers retracted
claims that have caused an
international crisis
by linking the measles, mumps and
rubella vaccine with autism
Dispatches: MMR
Brian Deer's
Channel 4 Television documentary
investigation reveals the bizarre
true story of British gut surgeon Dr
Andrew Wakefield
and his strange campaign against a
children's vaccine
Love
sickness
An unassuming
doctor from Vancouver, Canada, has
been recruited to launch "sexual
interest disorder" - a
previously unheard of medical
condition alleged to afflict one in
three women worldwide
Travelling
white
Brian Deer in
West Africa investigates VSO - funded
by British taxpayers for
international development - and finds
it playing the same old games that
were supposed to have ended with
empire
Matthew
and the burger bug
Escherichia
coli O157 is a deadly mutation of a
once-harmless germ.
It could be tackled at source, but as
a Lancashire mother discovered when
her three-year-old got sick, it's
easier to blame the victims
Notting
Hell
How a London
property developer used charity
status to terrorise the local
community. Brian Deer goes inside the
Westway Development Trust: 23 acres
of broken dreams and unanswered
questions
Death
of the killer ape
For decades,
the story of human evolution was told
as a thriller about predatory
aggression. The truth, only now
emerging from research in East
Africa, suggests we are children of
the campfire, not the club
The
VaxGen experiment
VaxGen Inc of
California's "world's first Aids
vaccine", AidsVax, made its
owners a fortune. But Brian Deer's
investigation led to a federal
prosecution and exposed why the
product could never work
End
game
Black gay
soccer star Justin Fashanu braved his
sport's racism and homophobia - but
when he sexually exploited a teenage
boy in a Maryland apartment it was
his final bid to level an old score
The vanishing
victims
Claims that
the DTP shot caused brain damage in
infants created the template for
modern health panics. The real story,
exposed for the first time in Brian
Deer's award-winning investigation,
is even more scary
Hang 'em high
The British
Labour Party was born on socialist
Clydeside, racked in
the 1990s by allegations of
corruption. After Tony Blair moved to
crush his critics, this may also be
the place to read the party's future
Tremors
in Tokyo
As a new prime
minister takes office, outsiders hope
for big changes in Japan, whose way
of life is out of step with US
interests. Brian Deer reports from
Tokyo on why they could be waiting a
long time
A secret
epidemic
The antibiotic
Septrin (Bactrim, Septra, Septran,
co-trimoxazole) is among the most
profitable drugs ever. But Brian
Deer's campaign revealed a horrifying
toll of needless deaths and suffering
Hard sell
In 1932, the
American-born Henry Wellcome drafted
will documents intended to maintain
his grip on the pharmaceutical
industry, even from beyond the grave.
It was broken
after
Brian Deer's investigation
Pill fraud
exposed
While working
for German drug firm Schering AG and
based in Australia, Prof Michael
Briggs faked research on
contraceptive pills taken by 10m
women worldwide. Brian Deer caught
the con-man
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