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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.”

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[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 80 points 4 days ago (3 children)

He's looking for the solution to the autistic people question

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Next will be ADHD people... and I'm sure they all will be sent with a camp, that will help them focus... a concentration camp if you will.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A camp? Its not like he's ever suggesting sending people to camps before. Oh wait:

source

See? Its not a camp, its a "wellness farm". Aren't you relieved now? /s

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[–] isles@piefed.social 45 points 3 days ago

Who's laughing at self-diagnosis now??

Anyway, fuck this place (USA)

[–] KingOogaBooga@lemmy.world 61 points 4 days ago (12 children)
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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 47 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Get ready my fellow autists, for you are the new jews, this time in magastan instead of Germany.

[–] BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

The Nazis started with the disabled, trans, gays, and autistic. The Jews came after the political dissidents.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

I'm going to try and play devil's advocate here, only because my experience in healthcare suggests to me that this is being sensationalized and there's already enough legitimately awful shit happening without sensationalizing stuff. Now, do want you want, but if you'll check my history, you'll clearly see that I'm not fan of this administration. This doesn't sound all that different in principle from NEMSIS, which is the US government's clearing house for EMS patient care reports that it uses for research purposes. I don't trust RFK, I think he's going to do something monumentally stupid and just go fishing for a way to blame vaccines, but I don't think that this is actually a kill list. Besides, what would be the point of them building a kill list?

Between Palantir building a target list and the NSA mass surveillance program, it would be a huge duplicated effort.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago (5 children)

RFK advocates for people to be forced to work at farms, for the good of their health. You can expect reports of me and other minority folks to be making license plates or being used as forced sex workers.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There, the anti-science conspiracy theorist sure to fill NIH with self-proclaimed physical therapists, snake oil profiteers, and homeopathy fans.

If it's not killing, it's him wanting to deny the disabled any financial help and government assistance, insisting the disabled are liabilities.

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[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

That's a pretty big claim for which The New Republic cited absolutely no source. This is bullshit, I hate the Administration as much as anyone here but I'm not falling for this.

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely nothing good will come from this.

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