Horrific?

 

Are big pharmaceutical companies whose raison d'etre is producing drugs to control disease and to prolong life would go so far as to commit murder just so they can keep making profits?

Take the case of Dr. James Bradstreet, who believed that vaccines caused autism. He recommended unorthodox and often unapproved autism treatments, including hyperbaric oxygen chambers; hormone injections; stem cell therapy and chelation, a risky chemical procedure he said could remove the mercury supposedly introduced by vaccines.

But the doctor's  most controversial treatment was something called Globulin component Macrophage Activating Factor, or GcMAF. A protein that naturally occurs in healthy human blood, GcMAF can be removed, concentrated and injected into a sick patient.

When Bradstreet’s body was found last month in a river in North Carolina with a bullet wound to the chest, therefore, friends, family members and patients pointed fingers at drug companies.

Although the local sheriff said it was suicide, Bradstreet’s relatives quickly raised money online for an exhaustive investigation into the possibility of foul play.

The suicide angle has gained traction as evidence has emerged linking the doctor to a shadowy online industry in unapproved medicine.

Bradstreet’s Internet postings tie him to an unlicensed medical factory that was recently shut down for producing potentially contaminated vials of GcMAF, the  supposed "wonder cure”.

The day before his death, Bradstreet’s own clinic was raided by federal and state authorities searching for the same untested and unapproved “cure.”

And on the very day of his death, media reported that a clinic linked to Bradstreet had also been raided after five patients receiving GcMAF died.

But Bradstreet’s friends, family and patients have refused to believe the doctor killed himself.  Since the doctor made his controversial findings that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism, the profits of the big pharmaceutical firms manufacturing MMR may have been hurt and that could have been the reason he was killed.

Meantime, with serious doubts raised over the efficacy of Bradstreet's "magic cure", those afflicted with autism and their families may have to wait some more before they can find a tried-and-tested treatment for the disease. 

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