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.”

  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
      42·
      5 hours ago

      While true, I’d take homeopathy over ABA. “yOu sHoUld go to tHerApy to leaRn to cOmmuNicate to nOrMal peOple” - “No thanks, I’ll take this little sweetened expensive piece of nothing and thank the Jr, so good we have him in charge of health”.

      OK, I haven’t even been to USA, but some “accepted” things about autism are just as bad as his ideas.