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Solved:
the riddle of MMR
In
part three of a continuing
Sunday Times investigation,
Brian Deer cracks the secrets
of the most controversial
medical research in a
generation, which has
triggered global epidemics of
fear, guilt and infectious
disease
Dispatches:
TGN1412
In
March 2006, six men were
seriously injured by an
experimental monoclonal
antibody, being tested at a
research unit in north
London. Brian Deer
investigates the scandal for
Channel 4's current affairs
flagship
The
Vioxx connection
When
Merck Inc of New Jersey
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
fraud exposed
Following
a Sunday Times investigation
by Brian Deer, Britain's
premier medical journal was
forced to retract fraudulent
research which caused a
global crisis
by linking the measles, mumps
and rubella vaccine with
autism
Dispatches:
Andrew Wakefield
Brian
Deer's Channel 4 Television
documentary investigation
reveals the bizarre true
story of British gut surgeon
Dr Andrew Wakefield and his
strange and dangerous
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 by drug firms to
afflict an astonishing 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 the
passing of 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
it was supposed to help.
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
violence-packed 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, despite
never succeeding in trials.
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 suburban
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 here 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
investigation and 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
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