Mercury is a neurotoxin. And it's in childhood vaccines. When Dr. Brian Hooker did the calculations for the Hepatitis B vaccine given to children, he found his son had received 80 times what is considered the safe limit for mercury. Dr. Hooker's son has autism. "I was mortified because of what I had done to my son unwittingly," he said. Dr. Hooker joined Forum Conversation for an in-depth discussion about vaccines and autism during which he described his journey and research into the causes of autism which led to researching several childhood vaccines and other environmental factors. "There are toxic environmental factors, things that are injected, breathed, or ingested ?" that are driving this [autism] epidemic," he said. Dr. Hooker has served on the board of Children's Health Defense since 2018 and has been their Chief Scientific Officer for two years. He has a PhD in biochemical engineering from Washington State University and has been involved in bio research