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Jeff Bradstreet, MD, is an American physician whose medical foundation in Melbourne, Florida, The Interntational Child Development Resource Center focuses upon complementary medicine, clinical research, and treatment of autistic spectrum disorders. Dr. Bradstreet is a Harvard-certified medical education instructor in autism.^{[citation needed]} Bradstreet attributes his son Matthew's autism to vaccination at 15 months of age. Bradstreet has been a vocal opponent of government vaccine campaigns, highlighted by his testimony critical of vaccine policies, on April 25, 2001, before the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform.

Dr. Bradstreet has evaluated over 2000 children with neurological disorders, and he directs a school for such children where his responsibilities include supervising occupational therapists, speech, language pathologists, and applied behavioral analysts.

Dr. Bradstreet received his medical degree at the University of South Florida. He underwent residency training in OB/GYN at Wilford Hall United States Air Force Medical Center. While in the Air Force, he was trained in toxicology and environmental health. His duties as an officer included responsibility for military personnel who had exposure to a wide variety of toxins, including mercury.

Bradstreet proclaims himself a 'Christian family physician'. According to his website, "A simple, but profound verse kept drawing him into greater understanding of the real meaning of health. The verse is Matthew 6:33: 'But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well'."

Bradstreet uses a mix of treatments that would be considered as "mainstream" or standard and those that would be considered alternative. The core of his complementary therapies include hyperbaric oxygen, heavy metal detoxification, use of herbal anti-inflammatory agents, methylcobalamin supplementation, nasal secretin, gamma globulin and other interventions targeted at children’s biological illness.

He pioneered the off-label use of Spironolactone as a desirable immunologic and hormonal intervention in autism spectrum disorders. [1]

He has conducted studies on the safety and efficacy of hyperbarics and heavy metal chelation. He has received funding from Autism Speaks for additional studies on hyperbaric oxygen and Spironolactone.

Bradstreet has written three peer reviewed papers regarding the relationship between thimerosal containing vaccines (TCVs), developmental disorders and biological markers for mercury-susceptibility.

Bradstreet has collaborated with a number of prominent vaccine and autism researchers, including Dr. Andrew Wakefield in conducting research which conflicts with accepted medical establishment theories about the safety of vaccines. In 2004, the doctors published research which they say evidences measles virus in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of three autistic children, who had received the MMR vaccine but not had wild measles; measles was not found in the CSF of control subjects. The implications, if their research is duplicated, are that the 'weakened' live measles from the MMR is alive and replicating in secondary sites (see Bradstreet, J et al, ‘Detection of Measles Virus Genomic RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Children with Regressive Autism: a Report of Three Cases’, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Vol 9 No 2, 2004).[2]

In light of what he believes to be the possible association between vaccinations and his son's autism, Bradstreet's daughter has been homeschooled. In the United States, some 2 million children are homeschooled, a decision attributed by many parents in part to their religious beliefs. Another reason often given by parents for homeschooling is their wish to avoid having their children vaccinated, but the number of those unvaccinated is unclear.

In an interview with investigative journalist Dan Olmsted, who has reported on two other unvaccinated populations, the Amish and Homefirst Health Services, Bradstreet voiced his opinion that the homeschool population needs to be studied by scientists. "I said I know I can tap into this community and find you large numbers of unvaccinated homeschooled," said Bradstreet, "and we can do simple prevalence and incidence studies in them, and my gut reaction is that you're going to see no autism in this group."

• List of autism topics
• Vaccine controversy

• ICDRC.org - 'Interntational Child Development Resource Center'
• InformedParent.co.uk - 'MMR Manufacturers Keep Up Legal Pressure on MMR Children', Informed Parent
• OpEdNews.com - 'Autism - Cut The Crap', Evelyn Pringle (July, 2005)
• ScienceDaily.com - 'The Age of Autism: Homeschooled', Dan Olmsted (June 28, 2005)
• Investigative reporting on the MMR-autism scare