Sharyl Attkisson on her journey

"Try to bring people along the journey from me, believe it or not, in 2000, thinking doctors know the best, scientific studies are pure and to be believed, and there's no corruption in the federal agencies when it comes to health. From going from there with my brother and my doctor, my brother and my father doctors, good doctors, to understanding where we are today, where there's really should be skepticism at every level because of what's happened to the system...I've learned when people ask a question, if you lay everything on them at once, they shut down. Yeah. Because it is improbable. I thought it was improbable, too. As a reporter, I didn't believe any of it. I studied this stuff for a year on the vaccines and autism link. I studied that for a year and purposely talked to no advocate parents to try to figure out what was really going on before I reported because it was so improbable compared to what I've been told. The science I was reading was so contrary."