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'The scientist who wasn’t there’: The incredible story of a fantasist father, was he a spy?
Manage episode 506326492 series 3379610
Michael Briggs has a famous scientist but as it turns out he had faked some of his qualifications. He also faked research that supposedly showed the safety a brand of oral contraceptives. His daughter Joanne has written a book about him - ‘The Scientist Who Wasn't There’
She joined Ciarán Dunbar to tell her incredible story and to try and answer the question, who really was her father?
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687 episodes
Manage episode 506326492 series 3379610
Michael Briggs has a famous scientist but as it turns out he had faked some of his qualifications. He also faked research that supposedly showed the safety a brand of oral contraceptives. His daughter Joanne has written a book about him - ‘The Scientist Who Wasn't There’
She joined Ciarán Dunbar to tell her incredible story and to try and answer the question, who really was her father?
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
687 episodes
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