Robert F. Kennedy Jr., um das nationale Autismusregister mit den privaten Gesundheitsakten der Amerikaner zu starten: ‚Daten werden aus Apothekenketten, Labortests, Smartwatches und mehr gesammelt.

As per [original article](https://people.com/rfk-jr-to-launch-autism-registry-using-private-health-records-11720156) 📰:

– The HHS secretary is also launching a registry that will track Americans with autism.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is set to amass the private medical records of Americans for a new autism study.

On April 21, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — director of the National Institutes of Health — announced that the NIH will provide Kennedy with data pulled from a number of federal and commercial databases, CBS News reports.

Kennedy — who has previously promoted a scientifically debunked claim that autism is caused by vaccines — is also launching a new registry to track Americans with autism.

Bhattacharya explained that between 10 and 20 outside groups of researchers will have access to these records, and they will be provided with grant funding to carry out Kennedy’s autism studies. He added that this data will allow researchers to study “comprehensive” patient data with “broad coverage” of the U.S. population for the first time.

Bhattacharya said during a presentation that the data will include medical records from pharmacy chains, lab tests, genomics data from patients treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, claims from private insurers, data from smartwatches and fitness trackers and more.

The NIH director noted that combining the data could lead to “real-time health monitoring” on Americans.

“What we’re proposing is a transformative real-world data initiative, which aims to provide a robust and secure computational data platform for chronic disease and autism research,” he said, per the outlet.

This news comes on the heels of statements Kennedy made at a press conference on April 16, when he claimed that “autism destroys families.”

“These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” he added.

The comments sparked outrage among autism advocates, with many arguing that Kennedy’s words promoted outdated and harmful rhetoric about people with the neurodevelopmental condition.

Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation, told CNN that Kennedy’s comments “made it sound like these were people whose lives were worthless, when that couldn’t be further from the case.”

A CDC study published on April 15 reported that one in 31 children in America will be diagnosed with autism by the age of 8 — an increase from the past two decades. However, experts widely agree that the increase in autism rates over time is not actually because more people are developing the disorder — instead, doctors are merely getting better at correctly identifying autism as diagnostic tools become more sophisticated, per NBC News.

“Parents shouldn’t panic,” Dr. Alex Kolevzon, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and clinical director of the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai in New York City, told the outlet. “We’re not seeing an epidemic with autism.”

No, thanks.
I dont trust his judgement.

How is this not a wheelbarrow full of HIPAA violations?

He’s also suggested trying to „cure“ people’s autism by sending them to work camps. I’m sure this registry has nothing to do with that.

So this will be the beginning of America’s Aktion T4.

I was wondering what it’d look like.

Disgusting invasion of privacy.

Government staying out of our lives.

Every goddamn fucking day it’s another hair pulling out adventure with this administration. I’d like to go ONE WEEK without some madness.

Excusing the massive legal issues that are sure to follow, to what fucking end?

To all the skeptics:

– This debunked claim originated from a small study back in 1998 authored by the infamous Andrew Wakefield. The study was later found to be inherently flawed and fraudulent, and was not only retracted, but repudiated by the scientific community.

– The author of the study had his medical license revoked for severe professional misconduct and he has since been ostracized by medical experts.

– Since then, many large scale, rigorous studies have established no link between vaccines and autism.

– Wakefield’s study included only 12 children, and while it shouldn’t have to be stated, this kind of sample size is unprecedentedly small—meaningless in fact—and far too small to draw any reliable conclusions.

– Wakefield was also criticized for a lack of control groups in his study, which is an essential part of any meaningful experimental study.

– He also altered patients medical histories to support his claims, he had conflicts of interest and his study involved unethical treatment of children.

– Dozens of large scale studies involving literally millions of children have since been conducted, all of them consistently pointing to the same conclusions—that vaccines do not cause autism.

– Thimerosal—a mercury based preservative previously used more commonly in some vaccines—was also the target of anti-vax claims which have since been debunked.

– Extensive research has shown that there is no link between Thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism, while research has also shown that even low doses of the preservative in vaccines do not cause any harm other than minor reactions like redness/swelling at the site of injection.

– And despite this research, Thimerosal was still removed from most childhood vaccines anyways as a precautionary measure. It is only really used in some flu vaccines today, and even then, you can request vaccines without it.

I feel compelled to add to this how I’ve heard a few people argue that some of the criticisms levied against RFK Jr. are unwarranted or unfair because of his record as an environmental lawyer. In other cases, some people just try to downplay his insanity, arguing that his words are taken out of context.

When it comes to the former, RFK Jr. has since lost all credibility due to his erratic, dangerous and unfounded claims about vaccines and public health related science.

Not to mention his utter capitulation to Trump and a MAGA agenda that is eroding the independence of public health related agencies, stripping knowledgeable civil servants of their protections, and taking steps to dismantle agencies and organizations that are largely responsible for day-to-day operations and broader objectives related to the safety of Americans, the conservation and protection of the environment, and the overall maintaining of public health.

Now when it comes to the argument that Kennedy really isn’t as batshit as the media makes him out to be, here are just some recent examples of his ignorant and dangerous claims:

> Kennedy: ‚I probably did say, Lyme disease is „highly likely a militarily engineered bioweapon“‚

> Kennedy has repeatedly suggested environmental toxins, including those in drinking water, are linked to gender identity in children. These claims are unfounded.

> In particular, he has reiterated a thoroughly debunked theory that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine causes autism

> Kennedy has also referred to the Covid vaccine as “the deadliest vaccine ever made,” despite data showing it’s overwhelmingly safe.

> At an event last year, Kennedy promoted a racist and antisemitic theory that Covid “ethnically targeted” white and Black people but not Ashkenazi Jews or Chinese people.

> Kennedy has amplified baseless claims suggesting a link between antidepressants like Prozac and school shootings. “Prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost none of these events,” he told billionaire Elon Musk last year. But research shows that most school shooters were not previously treated with psychotropic medications — and even when they were, there was no association between those drugs and the shootings.

> He has long peddled AIDS denialism conspiracy theories, alleging that HIV does not cause AIDS and questioning the “theology that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS.”

> He lamented that “any questioning of the orthodoxy that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS remains an unforgivable — even dangerous — heresy among our reigning medical cartel and its media allies”

> Kennedy’s book frequently cites discredited work of Peter Duesberg, a prominent AIDS denialist. “I haven’t found any evidence that HIV ever actually kills a T-cell.”

> He argued vaccines make people “lose IQ” and said the vaccine “dominant narrative” has “little proof.”

> Kennedy claimed vaccinologists add toxins to vaccines to amplify immune response. “They literally went on a search throughout the world looking for the most toxic things that they could find in order to add them to the vaccine,”

> Kennedy claimed that nobody knows the risk for any currently scheduled vaccines and that “nobody can say with any scientific certainty that [the polio] vaccine is averting more injuries than death than it’s causing.”

> claimed flu and polio vaccines increase susceptibility to future flu strains and polio cases.

> Kennedy has claimed that „there is zero evidence that the flu shot prevents any hospitalization or any deaths… The flu shot transmits the flu. In fact, if you get the flu shot, you’re six times more likely to give somebody else the flu, than if you didn’t get the flu shot.“

> Since we started mandating the flu shot for elderly people… Their life expectancy has dramatically gone down.

> speaking on “Health Freedom for Humanity,” a podcast run by a nonprofit advocating for medical freedom, Kennedy encouraged people to join him in telling strangers not to vaccinate their babies

> In July 2023, the same month he testified at the House hearing, Kennedy said in a podcast interview that “there’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.”

> He also accused Fauci of destroying repurposed medications like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin that also “would’ve obliterated Covid.”

Kennedy is an obvious kook who should have been disqualified from any position in government, let alone a position that oversees all public health related agencies.

Smartwatches? For autism studies? 

I respectfully suggest switching off fertility trackers. I am certain that RFK Jr. is a eugenicist.

How many people do we know personally who are going to be deeply, horribly affected by this, as persons, as parents, as lovers and spouses???????

This is so wrong, so very very wrong, right down to calling this ‚disease‘. And that’s the least of it.

Every day it is more the Hitler playbook, there is nothing revealed in my daily reading of Pietrusza, David. (2015) 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR―Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny. The plans to do all these things are already in his writing in the earliest years of the 1920’s, even before got imprisoned for 5 years.

> secure computational data platform for chronic disease and autism research,

Those are **not the same thing**!

Ok so he’s not gonna stop at Autism if we don’t stop this.

Is that legal?

Or is it time to spin up the HIPAA class action lawsuit?

MAGA won’t even mention this in Reddit Conservative. Can you imagine anyone in the Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Regan or Nixon administration allowing THIS!! MAGA is a complete fraud to itself.

These braindead worm addled pieces of shit…

Even if this were a real problem, it would be miniscule compared to the mountain of things this department should be addressing. 

He’s doing and saying these things purely to be cruel to a segment of the population he feels won’t or can’t fight back, and that he can ‚other‘ enough that none of the stupid fucks who think he belongs in this position will go against him for it. 

That’s all it is, federally funded small dick cruelty from a crackpot who eats roadkill and jerks off to little kids dying from measles. 

My apologies if I’m too intense, I’m one of those people who he says will never hold a job or pay taxes, and I’ve also had the misfortune of suffering through the measles which he professes to be no big deal. On top of that he wants me on a list so he can..shuffle us off to the gas chamber?

What color will the little triangle be? You know, the one I’ll have to sew onto all my clothes?

I always knew immigrants and non-whites were hated and conservatives would round them up into camps. I guess I did not see the hate for autistic people. I never thought they would be one of the first groups to fall. I knew eventually these fascists would get to the disabled, but so fast? A lot of people with all kinds of disabilities are about to suddenly be labeled as “autistic”. The ovens will be working overtime.

America we need to stop this. And it is not going to be stopped by a protest with pretty colored signs. We need to organize and start by going after those that carry the sticks. And take the fight to neighborhoods and towns that voted this in. Sadly, I do not know how to start. Help!

A registry? Where have we seen that before….