Through the late Eighties into the early Nineties, Martin J. Walker worked as an investigator for lawyers in criminal and civil cases and with many defendants in criminal and civil trials - with and without lawyers. In the late 1980s he co-founded Hackney Community Defence Association (HCDA), an anti-racist group which worked on the defence of people assaulted, fitted up and wrongfully arrested by the police in north east London. In 1990, he began investigating and writing about the ‘health fraud’ movement and the vested interests of science and medicine. His fifth book in 1993 - Dirty Medicine: Science, big business and the assault on natural healthcare, was described by Christopher Bird, author of 'The Secret Life of Plants', as "a masterpiece of investigative journalism and attentive scholarship, elegantly written". Since then he has published further titles including ‘The Brave New World of Zero Risk: Covert strategies in British science policy’ and ‘HRT: Licensed to kill and maim’. For the past five years he has also been one of the legal advisors on the BBC 1 drama series ‘Judge John Deed’.

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The Brave New World of Zero Risk: Covert strategies in British science policy
by Martin J Walker

This book examines the contemporary corporate politics of science in two areas, that of MMR (mumps, measles and rubella) vaccination and the illness or ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis). It shows how those who have fought for independent science have been bullied, attacked and discredited, using political strategies that have nothing to do with science and everything to do with power and profit.

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