Peter J. Hotez

“If you choose to use it, you have enormous power to be an advocate as a scientist.”
― Peter Hotez

“As part of the evaluation she underwent an EEG (electroencephalogram) that revealed an interesting finding of some right-sided temporal lobe spike discharges, for which she received tegretol for a time, possibly with some improvement. But doing blood draws to assess tegretol levels became a monumental task because of her noncompliant behavior, and eventually it got to the point where it appeared tegretol had stopped producing any tangible benefits.”
― Peter J. Hotez, Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad