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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 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 47 points 2 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 2 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

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

So while RFK Jr. is dangerously and stubbornly doing some wrong stuff, this at least conceptually wasn't a horribly dangerous idea, though perhaps uselessly naive.

It was proposed as a voluntary sort of facility that someone could go do if they chose, and from how it was described, ability to leave whenever they felt like too.

Generally speaking, I view RFK Jr as dangerous due to his convictions, naivete, and belief in some gnarly conspiracy thearies, but not intentionally malicious.

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[–] KingOogaBooga@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol, gj Muskrat, you've been designated the Röhm!

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely nothing good will come from this.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 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 2 days ago

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

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I bet at some point soon he’s gonna suggest the creation of camps for ADHD-havers to help them concentrate better. We can call them “concentration camps”.

Wait… wait no no NO NO N-

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

What's crazy is that it's perfect. Getting rid of autistic people is exactly the intellectual purging that fascists want when they get into power.

I know not every autistic person is "an intellectual" but many transgressive artists and radical leftist college professors are autistic.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Fund a cure” — a solution, as it were.

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