Brian Deer

Brian Deer is a British investigative reporter, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine and social issues for the Sunday Times of London. After graduating in philosophy from the University of Warwick, he became editor and press officer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and was a member of the Leveller magazine collective. He joined The Times, then The Sunday Times, where his awards have included a British Press Award for his investigations. [ [http://briandeer.com/award.htm Padraic Flanagan, The Guardian Takes Two Top Newspaper Awards, "Press Association News" 25 March 1999] ] In the 1980s, he was the UK's first social affairs correspondent, and between 1990 and 1992 reported from the United States.

His television article: "MMR: What they didn't tell you" [http://briandeer.com/wakefield/dispatches-blurb.htm] , a one-hour Dispatches documentary for Channel 4, first broadcast November 18, 2004, investigating research on the MMR vaccine was the core subject of a libel case. [ [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=36663 MMR Doc drops libel case versus Channel Four "Press Gazette"] ] His "The drug trial that went wrong" [ [http://briandeer.com/tgn1412/dispatches.htm MMR: What they didn't tell you "Dispatches" Channel 4 television (September 2006)] ] , nominated for a Royal Television Society journalism award, investigated the experimental monoclonal antibody TGN1412.

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* [http://briandeer.com Brian Deer personal website]