Anti-vaccine Dr Jeff Bradstreet dead in apparent suicide / Conspiracists fired up...

CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C. (AP) --

Authorities say anti-vaccine Dr. Jeff Bradstreet has been found dead in an apparent suicide in North Carolina. 

 The Rutherford County Sherriff'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 was found in a river in the Rocky Broad River in Chimney Rock on June 19. His body was found by a fisherman. 

Bradstreet is from Braselton, Georgia. The sheriff's department said Tuesday that a handgun was also pulled from the river. 

Authorities are still investigating. His family is raising funds online to investigate his death. 

Bradstreet ran a clinic in Buford, Georgia, and published autism research based on the disputed claim vaccines cause autism. The medical community says such claims have been disproved.(Más)

Anti-vax doctor dead of apparent suicide; conspiracists fired up 

Bradstreet was a proponent of the mercury toxicity of vaccines – a position that is unsupported and soundly disregarded. His arguments on this count were demolished by the Vaccine Court. 

Within hours of news of his death, the conspiracy theories started: “Prominent anti-vaxxer, and a close family friend, dead of apparent self-inflicted gunshot to chest (chest, my ass) (Más)