Summary

RFK Jr. is using private medical records to create a registry of people with autism in the United States.

The National Institutes of Health is helping to collect private medical records from government and commercial databases, including “prescription records from pharmacies, lab testing, and genomics records from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, private insurance claims, and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers.”

Kennedy, a longtime critic of vaccination, has made the study of autism one of HHS’s primary goals. He has called autism “preventable” and claimed “he can find a cure for the condition by September.”

    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
      110·
      15 hours ago

      I cannot read the entire transcript, but from what I did read, it seems to be talking about how Nazis slaughtered children with autism.

      Maybe you can draw the conclusion that he (rfk) is collecting data on autistic people so that he can slaughter them too, but that seems very far fetched doesn’t it?

      If I’m missing something important from what I didn’t read, please let me know.

      • OmegaMan@lemmings.world
        12·
        15 hours ago

        This administration is already sending innocent people to a concentration camp indefinitely and without a trial.

        That seemed farfetched not too long ago.

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
          12·
          14 hours ago

          I don’t know much about this, but just wanted to thank you for continuing the discussion even though I can’t myself because of a lack of knowlege here.

          Others prefer insults 🥹

      • die444die@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        15 hours ago

        No, it does not seem far fetched. Look at the shit this administration is doing and wake the fuck up.