- Doctoring the evidence
What the science establishment doesn't want you to know. In this Sunday Times focus, Brian Deer reveals new efforts to deal with fraud and misconduct in research, and asks: how can the sociopaths in white coats be stopped?
- Death by denial
To mark the 25th anniversary of the so-called "Duesberg hypothesis", Brian Deer considers the fate of some of the strange crusaders who, contrary to the insights of a quarter century of science, argue that Aids is not caused by HIV
- Solved: the riddle of MMR
In part three of an award-winning Sunday Times of London investigation, Brian Deer cracks the secrets of the most damaging scientific fraud in a generation, which triggered global epidemics of fear, guilt and infectious disease
- Dispatches: TGN1412
In March 2006, Ryan Wilson and five other young 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 scandal 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
Deer's 2004 TV investigation exposes British surgeon Andrew Wakefield, who The New York Times would later dub "one of the most reviled doctors of his generation" and Time would call one of the "great science frauds" of modern times
- 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 to support 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 Lancashire mother Rachel Bell discovered when her three-year-old Matthew 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 scientific 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
- Justin Fashanu's 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. Brian Deer investigates
- 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 prime minister Tony Blair moved to crush his Scottish 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 surprisingly relaxed way of life is out of step with US interests. Brian Deer reports from Tokyo on why they could be waiting a long time
- Bactrim-Septra: a secret epidemic
The blockbuster 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 Sunday Times investigation