Or they are part of a secret society of roots, berries & tree bark & ate the wrong ones & became homicidal/ suicidal.


Wait.....


Another conspiracy theory

That has to be it. Crime solved.

http://m.snopes.com/2015/07/21/five-holistic-doctors-dead/


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Five Holistic Doctors Dead

Kim LaCapria 2015-07-21 Conspiracy, News, snopes.com 0 Comments

NEWS: Alternative health sites have claimed that five (or six) “holistic health doctors” died under suspicious circumstances in June and July 2015.


In mid-July 2015, a number of articles on the subject of recently deceased alternative health practitioners began to circulate on social media. One of those (articles (“5 Holistic Health Doctors Found Dead In 4 Weeks, 5 More Go Missing — After Run-Ins with Feds”) appeared to have inspired several other similar articles, but the claims they made were mostly congruent.

The web site HealthNutNews published one of the first iterations, offering a list of recently deceased physicians, chiropractors, and osteopaths:

June 19th, 2015 – Dr Bradstreet … was found with a gunshot wound to his chest in a river. The small town locals ruled the death almost immediately as a suicide; but many have their doubts. This same day in Mexico … three doctors were traveling to the State Capital in Mexico, to deliver some papers. They were reported missing that day.

This portion of the article referenced one of the five “holistic health doctors” who was found dead, as well as three nameless doctors who went “missing” in Mexico in circumstances seemingly related to each another only by date. No information was provided about what readers were supposed to infer from this information. The deceased doctor to whom the author referred was James Jeffrey Bradstreet, a controversial figure found dead of a gunshot wound in a river in June 2015. Bradstreet, 61, was subject to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raid shortly before his death, which police said appeared to be suicide.

As for the missing Mexican doctors, a 9 July 2015 article in The Daily Beast profiled their case and gave no indication that the individuals affected were in any way affiliated with alternative medicine or were on the radar of the FDA. In fact, there are no clear parallels between the deceased “holistic health doctors” included in the conspiracy theory and the missing Mexican doctors that we could find.

Another portion of the article stated:

June 21st, 2015 — Father’s Day: We have two dead chiropractors, Dr. Holt [33] and Dr. Hedendal [67] (both reported to be fathers), in Florida; both found on the East Coast, both were presumably healthy, and both were described as very fit. We still have no cause of death listed in the articles we can find on either one.

A definitive cause of death for Hedendal has indeed been difficult to turn up, but Florida television station WBBH cited “natural causes” as a possibility. (Hedendal was 67 at the time of his death.) Comments on an online obituary for Hedendal included remarks (#41) from an individual named Rudy Vlaardingerbroek, who noted that:

I knew Bruce well for almost twenty years. I enjoyed chatting with him and throwing the discus. On Father’s Day he was at the Sunshine State Games and felt dizzy throwing the discus and even fell once. He just didn’t look good acc. to other throwers, although his last throw was 133. He was given water and Gatorade, went to his car and passed away sitting there. He must have died of severe hydration, which may have led to a heart attack. We will surely miss him.

As for Holt, his cause of death was indeed not readily available in searches (which have now been crowded out by conspiracy theory ramblings). An article on his death published in Raleigh News & Observer reported that that information was still pending:

[Holt’s] unexpected death last month while on a trip to Jacksonville, Fla. has been a blow to his family and the community he’d created through his work. Though he had been struggling with recent health issues, none were thought to be life threatening by loved ones. His family is awaiting the results from an autopsy report.
We found no indication that Hedendal or Holt had experienced run-ins with the FDA (as had Bradstreet) in recent months.

The next portion of the original article stated:

June 26th, 2015 – Dr. Patrick Fitzpatrick MD goes missing. He was traveling from North Dakota, to neighboring Montana (which he did often as his son lived there), and his truck and trailer were found on the side of the road. The search has expanded, but authorities say it’s like he vanished without a trace. He’s 6′ tall, and described as Irish-looking, with a goatee; and details can be found on the links.

Actually, Dr. Patrick Fitzpatrick of Bozeman, Montana, was last seen on 2 July 2015. Dr. Fitzpatrick did not seem a likely candidate for a massive big pharma hit job, nor was he an “alternative health” practitioner of any description. Articles published about his disappearance described him as a retired ophthalmologist known for forays into nature preserves, who’d grown increasingly frail in recent years:

[Lieutenant Arlyn Greydanus] says the 74-year-old suffers from medical conditions that require medicine and could suffer from confusion. He also struggles with walking great distances and walks slowly, but is believed to have possibly gotten a ride from the area where his car was abandoned.
“From where the vehicle is stuck there are many different directions he could go. He’s actually stuck in what’s called a pea field. It’s very difficult to walk through that that field was searched extensively by helicopter and you would have been able to see if someone walked through there. There’s a two-track road that he drove in on and possibly walked out on,” Lt. Greydanus said.

The article continued with the following:

June 29th, 2015 – The beloved holistic Theresa Sievers MD was found murdered in her home. Jeffrey Whiteside MD a pulmonologist went missing , vanishing when he simply “walked away” . Dr. Whiteside, known for his successful treatment of lung cancer, disappeared in Door County, Wisconsin, while vacationing with family. They say he was on foot, and had no vehicle; and numerous reports call it “mysterious,” saying he too, vanished without a trace.

On 29 June 2015, Theresa Sievers was bludgeoned to death in her Florida home. An investigation into Sievers’ murder remains open, and law enforcement officials have declined to comment on what they’ve found so far. But again, we were unable to turn up any evidence suggesting Sievers had an adversarial relationship with the FDA or any other large, powerful public health agencies before she was brutally murdered, and whoever killed her left a remarkable amount of evidence (incongruent with a calculated corporate hit).

Another entry read:

July 10th, 2015 – Lisa Riley DO (Doctor of Osteopathic medicine) is found in her home with a gunshot wound to her head.

Lisa M. Riley, 34, was indeed a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and not an MD, but her field of practice was listed as the decidedly uncontroversial “emergency medicine.” If Dr. Riley had cause to murderously enrage the medical establishment, that cause was well hidden.

It’s true that Riley’s death occurred under exceptionally suspicious circumstances. She was found dead of a gunshot wound by her husband in her home on 10 July 2015, and ten days later the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) announced that Riley’s husband, Yathomas Riley, would be charged in connection with her death:

The Americus Office of the GBI is announcing the issuance of arrest warrants for Yathomas Riley in the death of his wife, Dr. Lisa Riley. A Lee County magistrate judge issued warrants today charging Riley with Murder, Felony Murder and Aggravated Assault in the death of Dr. Riley. The charges stem from an investigation initiated by GBI agents and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office when her body was reported discovered by Yathomas Riley at their Northampton Road residence in Leesburg on July 10, 2015. Riley has remained in custody at the Lee County Jail since his arrest on July 10, 2015 for charges unrelated to his wife’s death. The extensive investigation into the matter is still ongoing.

Yathomas Riley was implicated in a similar situation in 2010 involving his then-girlfriend Koketia King. That woman was shot in the head as well, and Riley claimed the wound was self-inflicted. King survived.

Later articles also tied the death of Dr. Ronald Schwartz, 65, to the conspiracy. Schwartz was found shot to death in his Jupiter, Florida, home on 19 July 2015, but the deceased was neither an alternative health practitioner nor embroiled in any controversy at the time of his apparent murder. Schwartz, an obstetrician and gynecologist, was licensed in Tennessee and Georgia (not Florida) and believed to be functionally retired from medicine. His neighbors described him as quiet and reclusive.

So while Bradstreet died of an apparently self-inflicted wound under increasing FDA heat (and following a recent raid), none of the other doctors subsequently tacked on to conspiracies regarding his death led similar lives. Of the four missing doctors, one was elderly and retired, and three vanished in Mexico (where they lived and worked). Dr. Holt’s passing was a shock to many, but autopsy results are pending. Dr. Hedendal was 67 and passed away after a day of strenuous physical activity (presumably of natural causes). The murder of Dr. Sievers remains unsolved but was unlikely to have been carried out by high-level hitmen. Dr. Riley’s husband (implicated in a similar shooting in 2010) was charged in connection with her suspicious death.

Folks who deeply distrust medicine and science might take the list’s assertions as plausible, but under the slightest scrutiny its claims disintegrate. Given the breadth of fields in which these individuals practiced (e.g., chiropracty, obstetrics, ophthalmology), millions of Americans could conceivably be counted among their ranks. Even if all the deaths and disappearances were suspicious (which most of them appeared not to be), five people out of millions is a very small percentage. The claims were not unlike the “Clinton Body Count” rumor, by which every dead person who had the slightest link to the Clintons was drafted into a broad, vague conspiracy theory. This rumor (like its predecessor) cherry-picked information that fit its narrative (such as timeframe) while discarding the facts that didn’t fit (such as mainstream area of practice or later-explained circumstances/arrests).
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Anti Vaccine / Cure for Autism Therory, of why, at least 5-10 doctors are dead & 3-5 missing

https://youtu.be/Gof99Kpcyzk/ Lisa Haven

https://youtu.be/4AaAGYocbnk/ thoreaxe423

And many many others... before the following article.

Forbes

Emily Willingham

Here's Why Authorities Searched The Offices Of Controversial Autism

According to a federal government warrant, the offices of controversial autism doctor Jeff Bradstreet were the target in June of a search related to an experimental drug for autism. The compound, globulin component macrophage-activating factor, known as GcMAF, is one that Bradstreet reportedly used in “over 2000 children” with autism. Bradstreet, according to authorities in Rutherford County, NC, committed suicide there on June 19, after the search warrant was executed in late June.

According to the copy of the warrant provided to me by the United States Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Georgia, the search warrant was executed at Bradstreet’s Buford, GA, ‘wellness center’ because authorities were seeking information related to “evidence of a crime and contraband, fruits of crime, or items illegally possessed” associated with violations of interstate commerce statutes covering food, drug, or other products that are “adulterated or misbranded” and with “frauds and swindles” by “wire, radio, or television.” Punishments for those convicted of these crimes can include fines and up to 20 years in prison.

The warrant specifically references GcMAF and any records related to sale, shipping, billing, and delivery of GcMAF. It also covers Bradstreet’s financial records and Internet activities.

GcMAF is thought in some circles to modulate the immune system in ways that make it a treatment for everything from autism (which some believe is immune related) to cancer. Bradstreet was the focus of GcMAF and autism in online communities, with discussions centered around “doing the GcMAF through Bradstreet” in online forums. One forum references a link to Bradstreet’s blog as having “several posts” related to GcMAF, but a search of the site in its current iteration turns up no GcMAF-related hits (ETA: Those posts apparently were deleted, but you can read some of at these links here, here, here, here, and here). At least some users who discussed doing GcMAF treatments through Bradstreet appear to have been US based and discussed traveling to his offices for the shots. The shots appear to have cost about $50 each.


Bradstreet’s name and GcMAF for autism are closely linked in online searches. He also published a paper in a now-defunct journal on the subject, and a video of Bradstreet talking about using GcMAF for autism is available on YouTube. Three studies related to GcMAF as a treatment for everything from autism to cancer have been retracted in the last year, and the UK government issued a warning about the manufacture of GcMAF after discovering that one factory producing the protein was using plasma marked, “not to be administered to humans or used in any blood products,” according to the research publication watchdog site Retraction Watch.

Bradstreet’s death has led to a swirl of online speculation about a conspiracy to murder alternative medicine practitioners, fueled by reports of the murder of Florida doctor Teresa Sievers, who is described as being known for her work with transgender patients, and the death of another Florida doctor, Bruce Hedendal, 67, who was found dead in his car, reportedly of natural causes. Hedendal reportedly served a prison term in the early 2000s for tax evasion. Bradstreet also had Florida ties.

A Bradstreet family member has set up a GoFundMe campaign site “to find the answers to the many questions leading up to the death of Dr Bradstreet,” and I have reached out through the site to that family member for comment.

I am a science writer, editor, and educator with a background in developmental biology, physiology, and English literature. Read more about me here and find me (too often) on Twitter.

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Matt Carey Matt Carey 3 weeks ago
This is very sad. I do feel for his family and I wish he hadn’t taken the drastic step of more »

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Winnie Winnie 3 weeks ago
Here is a link to one of the (now removed) GcMAF posts on Bradstreet’s blog (internet archive): more »

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Winnie Winnie 3 weeks ago
More links to (now removed) blog posts by Bradstreet on the topic of GcMAF:

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Jeff Jeff 3 weeks ago
Should they not be raiding the CDC? They are the ones being accused of fraud. No, we can just more »

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jgc56 jgc56 3 weeks ago
Jeff, what fraud is the CDC accused of, and what evidence of fraud exists that would sufficent more »

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Matt Carey Matt Carey 3 weeks ago
“Should they not be raiding the CDC? They are the ones being accused of fraud. ”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2015/07/09/government-search-of-autism-doctor-bradstreets-office-related-to-experimental-autism-treatment/

An Urgent Message.. . sent out from a doctor, now in hiding & has received DEATH threats. She is pleading for help.

https://youtu.be/ERTq0pStZ5Q/

This is on various YouTube channels & social sites now.