Richard Deth

Richard Carlton Deth is an American neuropharmacologist, and a former professor of pharmacology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, who sits on the scientific advisory board of the National Autism Association. Deth has published scientific studies on the role of D4 dopamine receptors in psychiatric disorders, as well as the book, Molecular Origins of Human Attention: The Dopamine-Folate Connection. He has falsely speculated that there is a causal link between the vaccine preservative thiomersal and autism.