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.”

    • Razzazzika@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Wonder if they’re gonna rebrand Aspbergers again as ‘the people useful to society’ again.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 hours ago

      The school Hans Asperger sent autistic children to:

      Am Spiegelgrund was divided into a reform school and a children’s ward, where sick and disabled adolescents were unwitting subjects of medical experiments and victims of nutritional and psychological abuse. Some died by lethal injection and gas poisoning; others by disease, starvation, exposure to the elements, and “accidents” relating to their conditions. The brains of up to 800 victims were preserved in jars and housed in the hospital for decades.

    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
      115·
      6 hours ago

      Yes. The nazis tried to cure autism… (/s if it’s not obvious).

      Seriously, why are you comparing this to Nazis.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        5 hours ago

        Why would you not? Unless you were sure there were checks and balances in places to ensure it doesn’t happen. Say, something like, not tracking disabled people, and/or, not abandoning judicial process and habeas corpus, and/or respect for legal precedence and norms that affirm trust in the process

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          5 hours ago

          It does, to me, seem like a violation of privacy (looks like patients have no consent in whether their private data is collected).

          But, personally, I would think there would have been better, non-public ways of doing this if he really wanted to exterminate austistic people, etc.

          It being public, makes me think he wants PR, etc and wants to be the dude to cure autism.

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
          17·
          5 hours ago

          Lool thanks for the diss, I will try to keep my head held up high. Unless it was meant for the original comment, then I can forget about this ;(

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
          110·
          5 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·
            5 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·
              5 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·
            5 hours ago

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