“Brian Deer, a journalist writing for Murdoch’s Sunday Times, was the only person in the world to complain to a regulatory body about the work of doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in London who diagnosed children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which their parents suggested had occurred following MMR vaccination.
In 2003, after 10 years work, legal aid was withdrawn from over 1,000 parents claiming damages in a suit in which Wakefield was to appear as an expert witness. In 2004 Deer wrote an exposé of Wakefield that was full of concoctions, half truths and fantasies and which claimed that the children examined by the team at the Royal Free were not ill. Deer’s distorted pharma–imaginings became the basis of over 80 charges leveled against Dr Wakefield and three other doctors to be ‘tried’ by the General Medical Council (GMC). The hearing took place over three years between 2007 and 2010 and became one of the longest regulatory hearings ever held in Britain. Brian Deer, the centre of the whole plot, did not give evidence.
In bringing the fitness to practice case against Dr Andrew Wakefield, Professor Simon Murch and Professor John Walker-Smith, the GMC listened to journalist Brian Deer and excluded the views of hundreds of parents of vaccine damaged children. Who is Brian Deer? Vigilante for truth or front man for Big Pharma? Selective Hearing covers Deer’s part in the heartbreaking betrayal of vaccine damaged children by the medical profession, the pharmaceutical corporations and the British government.
With the full power of the government and pharmaceutical industry behind him, few people were brave enough to tackle Deer. Alan Golding, however, is a Welshman, a very independent filmmaker and a man of considerable principle. Alan Golding gave himself completely over the three–year duration of the GMC hearing, to the cause of Wakefield and the parents of vaccine damaged children. Selective Hearing is a beautifully filmed fine mix of interviews with parents, analysis of Deer’s faulted case and unique material of him holding forth for the pharmaceutical companies in a heated exchange with parents outside the GMC building. If you see this film you will want to do something about Brian Deer.”
April 8, 2011 at 3:37 pm | abc123
Just remember, water is wet, Kate Moss has used cocaine and Andrew Wakefield is a dangerous wangler.
April 8, 2011 at 4:10 pm | gert
“If you see this film you will want to do something about Brian Deer.”
yes, i would. i’d shake his hand. wakefield is a fraud, and considering him any but is both dangerous, and completely ignorant.
April 26, 2011 at 9:24 pm | Anonymous
make sure you wash your hand afterwards
April 9, 2011 at 12:28 am | Smekan
Absolute garbage.
I would be very concerned if I were the webmaster for Documentary Heaven that Brian Deer doesn’t sue for helping circulate this libelous junk
April 26, 2011 at 9:26 pm | Anonymous
e can’t even mention the existance of the film because of his fine performance , or did you not watch him ranting and foaming at the mouth
May 13, 2011 at 9:25 am | Smekan123
antiskeptic – I do not understand what you mean, perhaps you could re-write your comment in English.
May 13, 2011 at 2:38 pm | Anonymous
@Smekan123 please explain what part of the film is libelous? and I’m really sorry for the typos , i hope you can undrastand this
April 9, 2011 at 11:06 pm | Dillon
but i heard vaccines cause autism yo
April 10, 2011 at 1:47 am | DaftAida
This man has no principles and went to some pretty despicable lengths to formulate his false postulation. Just another hack making a filthy buck on the backs of suffering children and parents on behalf of BigPharma. Agree with Smekan entirely.
April 26, 2011 at 9:30 pm | Anonymous
an excellent film . it stands to reason that Brian should come under the same scrutiny as those he accuses of fraud,,, he comes off rather badly to say the least!!
June 28, 2011 at 11:35 am | Delia
Why aren’t parents listened to and why are we subjected to name calling? My son has recovered from autism through dealing with the viral issues in his gut. My son developed normally until the MMR and his first symptoms began the day after with severe gut problems.
Wakefield’s research has been varified by many other qualified researchers (Of which Brian Deer is not) around the world e.g. Kawasaki et al, Bitnun et al, singh et al, Furlano et al, Bitnun et al,Horvath et al,Gonzalez et al,Urlmann et al to name only a few.
Time will reveal all but how many more children have to suffer first. I have been fortunate to recover my son I don’t know anyone else who has.
June 28, 2011 at 11:35 am | Delia
Why aren’t parents listened to and why are we subjected to name calling? My son has recovered from autism through dealing with the viral issues in his gut. My son developed normally until the MMR and his first symptoms began the day after with severe gut problems.
Wakefield’s research has been varified by many other qualified researchers (Of which Brian Deer is not) around the world e.g. Kawasaki et al, Bitnun et al, singh et al, Furlano et al, Bitnun et al,Horvath et al,Gonzalez et al,Urlmann et al to name only a few.
Time will reveal all but how many more children have to suffer first. I have been fortunate to recover my son I don’t know anyone else who has.
June 29, 2011 at 7:11 am | Lin
Just reading the description for this documentary, it’s very clear that the creator has an agenda. It’s so distorted that I could barely understand what the author was trying to say: I had to look up an article myself to get the back-story. As someone with Crohn’s disease, I do find Wakefield’s research to have been fallacious, full of circular reasoning, and simply wrong. I feel sorry for those, especially the parents, who have fallen for Wakefield’s blame game and have pointed their fingers at pharmaceutical companies. Some believe Wakefield’s “research,” others simply want money. Either way, Wakefield has damaged society.
June 29, 2011 at 7:24 am | Lin
Please know that I am not agreeing or disagreeing with the claims that Deer makes. I simply do not know enough of his claims. I do however know about Wakefield.
June 29, 2011 at 7:11 am | Lin
Just reading the description for this documentary, it’s very clear that the creator has an agenda. It’s so distorted that I could barely understand what the author was trying to say: I had to look up an article myself to get the back-story. As someone with Crohn’s disease, I do find Wakefield’s research to have been fallacious, full of circular reasoning, and simply wrong. I feel sorry for those, especially the parents, who have fallen for Wakefield’s blame game and have pointed their fingers at pharmaceutical companies. Some believe Wakefield’s “research,” others simply want money. Either way, Wakefield has damaged society.