Brian Deer

Brian Deer is an award-winning 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. In the 1980s, he was the UK's first social affairs correspondent, and between 1990 and 1992 reported from the United States. His television work includes MMR: What they didn't tell you, a one-hour Dispatches documentary for Channel 4, first broadcast in November 2004, investigating research on the MMR vaccine. One newspaper described him as "brilliant, but mercurial" The Independent.

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British - Sunday Times - London - University of Warwick - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - The Times - MMR vaccine - The Independent

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