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'The scientist who wasn’t there’: The incredible story of a fantasist father, was he a spy?

'The scientist who wasn’t there’: The incredible story of a fantasist father, was he a spy?

Update: 2025-09-15
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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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'The scientist who wasn’t there’: The incredible story of a fantasist father, was he a spy?

'The scientist who wasn’t there’: The incredible story of a fantasist father, was he a spy?