The person who commissioned Deer was Paul Nuki, Sunday Times' sometime Head of Newsroom investigations and "Focus" editor. Paul Nuki is son of Professor George Nuki. Professor George Nuki in 1987 sat on the Committee on Safety of Medicines when the CSM was considering Glaxo company Smith Kline & French Laboratories' Pluserix MMR vaccine for safety approval. ......sitting on the CSM with Professor George Nuki was Professor Sir Roy Meadow and Professor Sir David Hull  [April 2008] MMR/AUTISM & THE TAMING OF THE BRITISH MEDIA--Clifford Miller

See: Prof Denis McDevitt  Brian Deer   MEDICOLEGAL INVESTIGATIONS LIMITED  Dr Richard Horton  Brian Deer  DAVID HULL Professor Sir Michael Rutter

See: Wakefield GMC Hearing 2007