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.”

  • polyploy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    22 hours ago

    If you think that eugenicist views being more common at the time is any kind of defense you’re sorely mistaken, and if you think there’s much of a difference between someone who kills kids and one who tries to decide which kids are worth killing first, you’re wrong.

    That first reply was for everyone else and reality check for you, but seeing as you seem intent on ignoring it I’m not going to bother wasting any more of my time interacting with you. I truly hope you come to realize how fucking disgusting your perspective is, I’ve tried to explain it to you but I can’t understand it for you.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 hours ago

      If you think that eugenicist views being more common at the time is any kind of defense you’re sorely mistaken,

      He worked in Nazi Germany. Say, baron von Stauffenberg, famous for his attempt to kill Hitler, wasn’t a Nazi because he was a Christian fundamentalist and a more traditional chauvinist, the thin difference that today would be ignored, but in that context he’s considered a hero.

      and if you think there’s much of a difference between someone who kills kids and one who tries to decide which kids are worth killing first, you’re wrong.

      Thank you for your opinion, but that’s something people in responsible professions have to decide regularly and by design.

      Like - “the mother or the child”, or “we have an emergency situation with far less donor blood of a certain blood type than we need, how do we share it”, and so on.

      That first reply was for everyone else and reality check for you,

      The reality check is that you consider yourself intelligent enough to do reality checks for others. Yes, don’t let the door hit you and all that

      • Red Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 hours ago

        And Hitler killed Hitler, I see no one lining up to give him a medal because we understand what fucking context is.

        also interesting that you are comparing Triage to Eugenics,