Brian Deer

Brian Deer
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EducationUniversity of Warwick
OccupationInvestigative journalist
Known forInvestigative reporting on medical issues and the pharmaceutical industry
Websitebriandeer.com

Brian Deer is a British investigative journalist, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine, and social issues for The Sunday Times. Deer's investigative nonfiction book The Doctor Who Fooled the World, an exposé on disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield and the 1998 Lancet MMR autism fraud, was published in September 2020 by Johns Hopkins University Press.