James B. Adams (professor)

For other people named James Adams, see James Adams (disambiguation).
James Brewster Adams
Alma materDuke University (B.A.)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.S., PhD)
Known forAutism-related research
Autism-related pseudoscience
Anti-vaccine activism
SpouseMarie Adams
ChildrenThree
Scientific career
FieldsEngineering
Neuroscience
InstitutionsArizona State University
ThesisNucleation and growth of thin films (1987)

James B. Adams is a President's Professor at Arizona State University, where he directs the autism/Asperger's research program, though he originally taught chemical and materials engineering there. Adams also holds a post at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and is the president of the Autism Society of Greater Phoenix and the co-chair of the Autism Research Institute's scientific advisory committee. He has been featured on Dateline NBC, and received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award from President George Bush in 1996. Adams has promoted various discredited or unproven alternative treatments for autism and has made the false claim that vaccines may cause autism in "rare cases," including that of his own daughter.

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