Dr David Tayloe Appears on Larry King Explaining That Vaccines do not Cause Autism

Dr. Tayloe Jnr appeared on the Larry King Show on 2 April 2008, with Jenny McCarthy and David Kirby. His father with same name had a judgement against him for $3.5 million in 1985. ¹

Dr. Tayloe stated on Larry King:

Bernard Forehand was seriously injured when Dr. Tayloe Snr’s pediatritic’s nurse failed to communicate to Tayloe that Bernard had an adverse reaction to the first vaccination shot.

The administration of the second shot left the Bernard with a significant brain injury. Dr. David Tayloe Snr, who was the president of the National Pediatric Association, fought this case. On 1 May 1985, the jury handed down what was at that time the largest jury verdict in a medical malpractice case in the State of North Carolina – a sum of $3.5 million.

A North Carolina jury in the Wilmington U.S. District Court decided that David Tayloe and T. Frank Stallings of Washington Pediatrics, Pennsylvania, were guilty of medical malpractice that resulted in the pertussis vaccine-induced brain damage suffered by Beau Forehand.

The judge overturned the verdict and which was subsequently appealed.

The defense claimed that the two doctors were following the vaccination guidelines contained in the American Academy of Pediatrics 1970’s “Red Book” which was in effect at the time Beau Forehand received his first DPT shot in January of 1974.

Beau reacted to his first short with a 103 degree fever and unconsolable crying, which his mother reported to the doctors. Six weeks later, Beau had a febrile seizure and was hospitalized. However, despite the reaction to his first shot and the subsequent seizure, he was given another DPT shot even though he had a cold and a slight fever at the time of the second vaccination.

Within three hours of his second DPT shot he went into a major seizure and has had an uncontrolled seizure disorder ever since. He was left with permanent severe mental retardation.

The 1970 RedBook did not list unconsolable crying, a fever of 103 degrees, a history of convulsions or a cold at the time of vaccination as contraindications to the pertussis vaccine. Attorney Lambright stated that the jury’s verdict in the case sent a clear message to physicians that:

If the jury’s verdict is upheld on appeal, the Forehand case will be an important precedent-setting case. It would mean that individual physicians are responsible for obtaining knowledge and making decisions about the advisability of vaccination in individual cases which go beyond automatic reliance on the recommendations listed by the AAP or the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

The Forehand settlement was one of a series of DPT vaccine malpractice cases against negligent physicians, as well as a few high profile punitive damage awards for DPT vaccine brain damage that went against vaccine manufacturers between 1981-1985 which persuaded Congress that both drug companies making vaccines and doctors giving vaccines should be protected from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths.

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Last updated on Saturday 7 March 2026 at 10:18 by administrators

1. Larry, K. et al. (2008) CNN Larry King Live with Jenny McCarthy and Dr Tayloe – Autism and Vaccination. Available from: https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2008-04-02/segment/01.