"Vaccines cause autism" Doctor found in apparent suicide - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Authorities say Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, who published research based on the medically disproved claim that vaccines cause autism, has been found dead in an apparent suicide in North Carolina. The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office said in a news release issued this week that Bradstreet died of what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Bradstreet, who was from Braselton, Georgia, was found in the Rocky Broad River in Chimney Rock on June 19. His body was found by a fisherman. The sheriff's department said Tuesday that a handgun was also pulled from the river. Authorities are still investigating.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/authorities-anti-vaccine-doctor-dead-in-apparent-suicide/"]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/authorities-anti-vaccine-doctor-dead-in-apparent-suicide/[/URL]

This mans legacy is something that has caused a huge uproar I would feel terrible

Yeah if I were directly responsible for so much potential suffering and death, much less a possibility of global pandemic, I'd kill my self too. rip scumbag.

A self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest seems like a very strange and awkward way to do that. Honestly, if the guy is responsible for the whole anti-vaccination craze, I can't say I'm sad.

[QUOTE=draugur;48069450]Yeah if I were directly responsible for so much potential suffering and death, much less a possibility of global pandemic, I'd kill my self too. rip scumbag.[/QUOTE] Seems like a good man that was just wrong. Hard to know though.

The conspiracy wackos are going to jump on this and claim he was assassinated by big-pharma any second now.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;48069467]A self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest seems like a very strange and awkward way to do that. Honestly, if the guy is responsible for the whole anti-vaccination craze, I can't say I'm sad.[/QUOTE] happens every so often, Van Gogh did the same thing

[QUOTE=draugur;48069450]Yeah if I were directly responsible for so much potential suffering and death, much less a possibility of global pandemic, I'd kill my self too. rip scumbag.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Mister Sandman;48069467]A self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest seems like a very strange and awkward way to do that. Honestly, if the guy is responsible for the whole anti-vaccination craze, I can't say I'm sad.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=ScottyWired;48069503]Are you sympathising with him because he's dead now? His legacy still makes him a scumbag.[/QUOTE] How are you so sure he wanted it to be this terrible? I doubt he knew idiot parents would buy into this shit at the level they did. of course, as I said, his legacy is shit, and its causing a lot of children to die for a really idiotic reason. he's still a human being but intentionally misinforming people is fucking awful at the same time, the people who are old enough that they should be able to ignore that bullshit are just as bad for not vaccinating their children.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;48069477]Seems like a good man that was just wrong. Hard to know though.[/QUOTE] Are you sympathising with him because he's dead now? His legacy still makes him a scumbag.

[QUOTE=draugur;48069450]Yeah if I were directly responsible for so much potential suffering and death, much less a possibility of global pandemic, I'd kill my self too. rip scumbag.[/QUOTE] afaik didn't he retract what he said later though? If so it's the media's fault, not his.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;48069512]afaik didn't he retract what he said later though? If so it's the media's fault, not his.[/QUOTE] nope.

[QUOTE=Blazedol;48069519]nope.[/QUOTE] I'm fairly certain the original researchers that said "Vaccines = autism did", but maybe this is a different guy I guess.

[QUOTE=J!NX;48069501]How are you so sure he wanted it to be this terrible? I doubt he knew idiot parents would buy into this shit of course, as I said, his legacy is shit, and its causing a lot of fucking children to die for a really idiotic reason.[/QUOTE] I'm sure in his mind he's found something good, but that "finding" still caused a lotta shit. There's not much you can really do with the stubborn and deluded.

I'd like to remind everyone that this guy is not Andrew Wakefield, the fucking organic trash that committed multiple ethics violations along the way to publishing the original fraudulent, retracted-by-all-other-coauthors-and-the-journal-everyone-but-him study that set this all off. This guy realized that his credibility as a medical professional is toast the instant we get over the anti-vax hangover, if not sooner.

[QUOTE=Blazedol;48069533]I'm sure in his mind he's found something good, but that "finding" still caused a lotta shit. There's not much you can really do with the stubborn and deluded.[/QUOTE] From the looks of it he was against the mercury in vaccinations, not vaccinations themselves. The only issue is the mercury levels he observed were purely more than fine enough, if not virtually non-existant. If I'm guessing right, he wasn't literally saying vaccinations caused it, just the mercury. Idiotic parents and the media spun it out of ignorance and fearmongering until the point where we get the crap we have now

For all the deaths he's caused, good.

So many people are so ready to be thankful for the death of another human being without even understanding what he did or why he did it. Literally all you see is that he did this research and this thing happened due to it. there are tons of people directly linked to deaths because of bad research and inventions. Like I'm not saying he's some sweet innocent old 'doc but it's pretty brutal. This is coming from a person who constantly expresses blanket banning unvaccinated children (within medical reason) from schools and making vaccinations mandatory. I couldn't disagree with him any more than I already do. This is another human being.

i will not celebrate his death but i will not mourn him. i can only hope that he realized what he had helped perpetuate

[QUOTE=J!NX;48069551]From the looks of it he was against the mercury in vaccinations, not vaccinations themselves. The only issue is the mercury levels he observed were purely more than fine enough, if not virtually non-existant. If I'm guessing right, he wasn't literally saying vaccinations caused it, just the mercury. Idiotic parents and the media spun it out of ignorance and fearmongering until the point where we get the crap we have now[/QUOTE] Never knew that. Either way I was thinking of the wrong dude,and from the looks of this guy went silent after his studies were proven to be false.

I wonder if it has anything to do with that six year-old that recently died from lack of vaccination?

Hope all that money you got from bribes was worth it, asshole. Now we have an epidemic on our hands because of this one fucking guy.

[QUOTE=J!NX;48069551]From the looks of it he was against the mercury in vaccinations, not vaccinations themselves. The only issue is the mercury levels he observed were purely more than fine enough, if not virtually non-existant. If I'm guessing right, he wasn't literally saying vaccinations caused it, just the mercury. Idiotic parents and the media spun it out of ignorance and fearmongering until the point where we get the crap we have now[/QUOTE] Actually, based on his wiki page he was putting autistic children with average mercury levels through therapy to decrease heavy metals in their system, as well as using unapproved and untested methods to try to cure autism( one only went into safety testing last year, with the results not even being public yet). Also he did outright say that he believes you will find a lower incidence in autism among unvaccinated children. [QUOTE=Viewer;48069630]I wonder if it has anything to do with that six year-old that recently died from lack of vaccination?[/QUOTE] More likely his offices and place of work being raided by FDA investigators after he has publicly acknowledged using practices that are not yet approved on minors.

Well, he did ruin his career and the lives of many children, and has had to live with that ever since. His guilt must've caught up with him. I feel kind of bad for him, but he should have known what he was doing.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;48069477]Seems like a good man that was just wrong. Hard to know though.[/QUOTE] There's some evidence he made up the autism claims as a means of making money off of some "safer alternative" vaccines he had been working on.

whatever whack-ass shit he was spurting doesn't make it right that he committed suicide in my eyes I fucking hate suicide no matter the circumstances I guess that he actually, somewhere, sometime figured out that he was doing atrocious things, but suicide is not justice to me

I love that everyone on this forum thinks that this one person is the exact reason why there are some people who don't vaccinate. People have their own opinions and reason and this guy took a lot of blame for something that was definitely not entirely his fault. That's probably why he did this.

[QUOTE=deadoon;48069662]A Also he did outright say that he believes you will find a lower incidence in autism among unvaccinated children. [/QUOTE] Thing is, let's say that this is true. Let's say that only 5% of people without vaccination have autism, compared to maybe 8-10% of people who have. These are obviously not real numbers, but made up. However, even if that difference of those 5 percentagepoints was true, it still wouldn't mean anything. That would simply be statistics, and without any solid foundation to back up a proposition about what the statistics mean, it doesn't mean anything.

iirc the dude was payed to skew results and really the only thing that's his fault is the fact that somebody REALLY wanted skewed results to back up his point

I think you guys are getting confused, the actual guy, who started all of this shit, is not Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, but Andrew Wakefield. Dr. Jeff Bradstreet is just another guy who had the same idea as him. Andrew Wakefield is the massive asshole.

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