Dispatches MMR: What They Didn't Tell You (2007) - BBC Brian Deer Andrew Wakefield Documentary

Brian Deer’s investigation into claims made at a London medical school that the three-in-one measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) caused autism and bowel disease in children evolved into the most extensive media inquiry into medicine in a generation.

With revelations spread over more than 14 years, between late 2003 and 2017 Brian Deer pursued a landmark public interest investigation for The Sunday Times of London, the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 Television network and BMJ, the British Medical Journal, into allegations linking the three-in-one measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) with claims of a terrifying new syndrome of bowel and brain damage in children. These allegations had led to a decade-long health crisis in the UK, and sparked epidemics of fear, guilt and infectious disease, which would be exported to the United States, Europe, Australia, and other developed countries, spawning every kind of concern over vaccinations.