Jeff Bradstreet Explained

Jeff Bradstreet
Birth Date:1954 7, mf=y
Death Place:Rutherford County, North Carolina
Nationality:American
Fields:Autism therapies
Workplaces:International Child Development Resource Center
Alma Mater:University of South Florida, Wilford Hall Medical Center
Children:Matthew Bradstreet (born 1994)[1]

James Jeffrey "Jeff" Bradstreet (July 6, 1954 – June 19, 2015), was an American doctor, alternative medicine practitioner, and a former preacher[2] who ran the International Child Development Resource Center in Melbourne, Florida,[3] a medical practice in Buford, Georgia[4] and in Arizona, where he practiced homeopathy.[5] [6] He also founded the Good News Doctor Foundation, which aimed to combine Christian beliefs with his medical practice.[7]

Education and career

Bradstreet obtained a Florida medical license in 1984. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of South Florida in 1976, where he also went to medical school beginning three years later. His postgraduate research focused on aerospace medicine, and he received his training in this field from Wilford Hall Medical Center. He was an adjunct professor of child development and neuroscience at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Arizona.[8]

Autism claims and treatments

Bradstreet published autism research, which he claimed indicated vaccines as a cause, in the fringe partisan Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, which is not indexed by PubMed. This research claimed that autistic children had a higher body burden of mercury,[9] and that three autistic children had measles RNA in their cerebrospinal fluid.[10] The Institute of Medicine has rejected any relationship between vaccines and autism.[11]

Bradstreet treated Colten Benevento a child diagnosed with autism (one of the test cases in the autism omnibus trial) with chelation therapy on the premise of removing mercury from his body, in spite of the fact that hair, blood, and urine tests had failed to show he exhibited abnormal levels of mercury.[12] Over an eight-year period, Colten visited Bradstreet's office 160 times.[13] Stephen Barrett has stated, "It appears to me that Bradstreet decides which of his nonstandard theories to apply and records diagnoses that embody them," and describes Bradstreet's mercury provoked tests as "phony".[12] Peter Hotez characterized Bradstreet's proposal to treat autism with chelation therapy as "dangerous."[6]

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Bradstreet defended the use of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) as an autism treatment, saying, "Every kid with autism should have a trial of IVIG if money was not an option and IVIG was abundant."[14] Bradstreet also published research regarding the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for autism,[15] some of which concluded it was ineffective,[16] as well as a paper arguing that autistic children have an increased vulnerability to oxidative stress.[17] Further treatments Bradstreet used on autistic children included the controversial protein GcMAF, with which he claimed to have treated 600 children.[18] In an article for an anti-vaccine magazine, Bradstreet endorsed stem cell therapy as an autism treatment.[19]

Personal life and death

Bradstreet was found dead from a gunshot wound to the chest in the Broad River in Rutherford County, North Carolina in June 2015, after his Buford, Georgia medical office was raided by the FDA in connection with an investigation into GcMAF treatments.[4] [20] [21] At the time of his death, he lived in Braselton and ran his medical practice in Buford.[4] While the police declared Bradstreet's death a suicide, a conspiracy theory has spread holding that Bradstreet was murdered for his use of a "holistic" therapy.[22]

Bradstreet's son has been diagnosed with autism, which Bradstreet attributed to a vaccination his son received at age 15 months.[23]

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Secretin: miracle drug or a quack remedy? . . 14 May 2000 . 19 September 2013 . Allison, Wes.
  2. Web site: Treating Autism as if Vaccines Caused It . . . 1 April 2009 . 25 August 2013 . Allen, Arthur.
  3. Web site: In Memory of Jeff Bradstreet. CECIL M. BURTON FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY. 20 June 2015.
  4. Web site: Anti-Vaccine Doctor Jeff Bradstreet Dead in Apparent Suicide. Alastair Jamieson. NBC News. 27 June 2015 . 27 June 2015.
  5. Web site: "Autism Specialist"Blasted by Omnibus Special Master. Quackwatch. 27 June 2015. 27 June 2015.
  6. News: Michael E. Miller. Anti-vaccine doctor behind 'dangerous' autism therapy found dead. Family cries foul.. The Washington Post. June 29, 2015. June 30, 2015.
  7. Book: Fitzpatrick, Michael . Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion . 2008-10-27 . Routledge . 9781134058983 . 61 . en.
  8. Web site: Jeff Bradstreet Curriculum Vitae . 2015-04-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150824055123/http://www.icimed.com/DrCV2008/JeffBradstreetCV2007.pdf . 2015-08-24 . dead .
  9. A Case-Control Study of Mercury Burden in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders . Bradstreet, Jeff . Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons . Summer 2003 . 8 . 3 . 76–79 . 2013-08-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150816020107/http://www.vaccinationnews.org/sites/default/files/DailyNews/2003/September/07/Bradstreet7.pdf . 2015-08-16 . dead .
  10. Bradstreet . JJ . Dahr . JE . 2004 . Detection of Measles Virus Genomic RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Three Children with Regressive Autism: a Report of Three Cases . Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons . 9 . 2 . 38–45 . . 26 August 2013 . 20 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131020182923/http://icdrc.org/documents/bradstreet.pdf . dead .
  11. Book: Immunization Safety Review . . 2004 . 182. 9780309166041 .
  12. Web site: "Autism Specialist" Blasted by Omnibus Special Master . . 15 March 2009 . 24 August 2013 . Barrett, Stephen.
  13. Book: Deadly Choices . registration . jeff bradstreet. . . 2011 . 28 August 2013 . Offit, Paul . 102. 9780465021499 .
  14. Web site: Autism treatment: Science hijacked to support alternative therapies . . 23 November 2009 . 25 August 2013 . Tsouderos, Trine . Trine Tsouderos . Callahan, Patricia . Patricia Callahan . 2.
  15. Rossignol . D. A. . Bradstreet . J. J. . Van Dyke . K. . Schneider . C. . Freedenfeld . S. H. . O'Hara . N. . Cave . S. . Buckley . J. A. . Mumper . E. A. . Frye . R. E. . 10.1186/2045-9912-2-16 . Hyperbaric oxygen treatment in autism spectrum disorders . Medical Gas Research . 2 . 1 . 16 . 2012 . 22703610 . 3472266 . free .
  16. Granpeesheh . D. . Tarbox . J. . Dixon . D. R. . Wilke . A. E. . Allen . M. S. . Bradstreet . J. J. . 10.1016/j.rasd.2009.09.014 . Randomized trial of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for children with autism . Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders . 4 . 2 . 268 . 2010 .
  17. James . S. J. . Jill James . Melnyk . S. . Jernigan . S. . Cleves . M. A. . Halsted . C. H. . Wong . D. H. . Cutler . P. . Bock . K. . Boris . M. . Bradstreet . J. J. . Baker . S. M. . Gaylor . D. W. . 10.1002/ajmg.b.30366 . Metabolic endophenotype and related genotypes are associated with oxidative stress in children with autism . American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B . 141B . 8 . 947–956 . 2006 . 16917939. 2610366.
  18. Web site: GcMAF – the beginning of the end for autism . https://web.archive.org/web/20120914025429/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9857174.htm . dead . September 14, 2012 . . 8 September 2012 . 26 August 2013.
  19. Web site: Stem cells and autism: one year later . Autism One . Autism Science Digest . 25 August 2013 . 20 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130120113131/http://emcell.com/shared/files/102423783-Stem-Cells-Autism-One-Year-Later-by-James-Jeffrey-Bradstreet-MD-MD-H-FAAF.pdf . dead .
  20. News: Joshua Sharpe. Controversial autism researcher, Jeff Bradstreet, is found dead after FDA raid in Buford, authorities say. BUFORD — Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, an autism researcher hailed as a hero by some, dismissed as a fringe conspiracy theorist by others, is believed to have committed suicide following a visit to his Buford office by federal agents, authorities confirmed Thursday, however, there is no proof at this time. Multiple law enforcement officials said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration searched Bradstreet Wellness Center last week.. Gwinnett Daily Post. June 26, 2015. June 27, 2015. June 27, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150627182227/http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2015/jun/25/controversial-autism-researcher-jeff-bradstreet/. dead.
  21. Web site: Body located in Rocky Broad River in Chimney Rock identified. Heather Carpenter. 23 June 2015. FOX Carolina. 27 June 2015. 27 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150627044516/http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/29391296/body-located-in-rocky-broad-river-in-chimney-rock-identified. dead.
  22. Book: Gorski DH . Cancer and Society . Cancer Quackery and Fake News: Targeting the Most Vulnerable . Bernicker EH . 2019 . Springer . 978-3-030-05855-5 . 95–112 . 10.1007/978-3-030-05855-5_7. 133344385 .
  23. Web site: The Age of Autism: Homeschooled . UPI . 28 June 2005 . 25 November 2014 . Olmsted, Dan . Dan Olmsted.

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