P.S. Journalist COI part 2
February 17th, 2009
See this story (Brian Deer, not a complainant) which further muddies (or clears?) the waters, about Brian Deer and the GMC inquiry into Andrew Wakefield which I commented on previously.
“So, Brian Deer didn’t initiate the investigation. He wasn’t a complainant. It isn’t like, as in Mr. Kirby’s analogy, Mr. Deer didn’t “sue a doctor for libel or misconduct”.”
So now it looks like Brian Deer was not in a journalistic COI, as has been suggested. Just goes to show how complex and heated these issues can be…