Anti-Vax Doctor Found Dead

Police are calling the death of James Bradstreet, a physician who claimed vaccines cause autism and offered autism cures to patients, an apparent suicide.

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WIKIMEDIA, TONY WEBSTERJames Bradstreet, a controversial Georgia doctor who warned patients that routine vaccinations may cause autism and offered a variety of untested treatments for the disorder, has been found dead in a small North Carolina town. A fisherman found Bradstreet’s body in the Rocky Broad River in Chimney Rock, North Carolina, near a house where the doctor and his wife frequently vacationed, on June 19.

Bradstreet, 61, died of a gunshot wound to the chest, which officials said “appeared to be self inflicted,” according to a statement from the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office. That office is investigating the circumstances of Bradstreet’s death, but family members and supporters of the autism researcher have launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise money for “an exhaustive investigation into the possibility of foul play.”

Days after after Bradstreet’s body was discovered in North Carolina, the US Food and Drug Administration searched his Buford, Georgia, Bradstreet Wellness Center, but the reason for the apparent investigation has not been disclosed, according to the Gwinnett Daily Post. That paper reported that the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency also participated in the June 22 raid on Bradstreet’s office.

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