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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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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yep, if anyone had any doubt that MAGA = NAZI... well , MAGA = FUCKING NAZIS

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Autistic and other children with exceptionalities are already tortured (and killed) at “troubled teen facilities.”

These are almost entirely unregulated. There are no requirements that these facilities hire qualified staff, background check their staff, provide evidence based treatments. Children who are marked as mentally ill are not considered reliable narrators, so their accounts of abuse are not believed. (It’s funny - I try to report things that happened to me more than ten years ago, and it’s “too late” - but at the time they called me a liar, called it a symptom and hopped me up on Resperdal. How exactly does a teenager in one of these facilities get help?)

Turnabout Ranch, the place that Dr Phil sent kids like Bhad Baby to, allowed kids to be hurt.

There are already things in place that would facilitate an Aktion T4 style program. Southern states especially have horrendous child welfare systems, and children do die in “treatment.”

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 31 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Didn’t the Nazi’s do this too?

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 7 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.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

Yes. The first group of people exterminated by the Nazis were the disabled.

[–] Psiczar@aussie.zone 13 points 9 hours ago

RFK jr, the Republican Joseph Mengele

[–] choab@discuss.online 5 points 7 hours ago
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Well somebody is ready to follow in the footsteps of the great dr Mengele already!

And with "great" I obviously mean sick psychopath

[–] vaccinationviablowdart@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

How do you discern autism from a smart watch, labs, pharmacy etc?

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The trick here is they don't actually care if it's autistics or not. They just want want to create another "other" for society to Target. So you'll get them blasting this on news all over the United States of America " see this perfectly normal looking heartbeat, this is the autism heartbeat. We needed to put whoever this terrible person is in whatever terrible position we're going to put them in".

It's just like sending people to El Salvador with mom tattoos. They don't care if they're in a gang or not.

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Im double on the list for being autistic and trans! I'm gonna go to CAMP!

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

It’s going to be vaccines. That’s what RFK is looking for.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

It'll be suddenly revealed it's a general health tracking database, and you'll be denied healthcare coverage if you're "not doing your part", will be used to monitor women's menstrual cycle to figure out who's having "illegal abortions", you'll be fired for not waking up at 4:30AM to stroke the ego of the CEO, etc., all thanks to Palantir...

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago
[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 hours ago

me being trans and autistic.. haha i'm in danger

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not contagious you fuckstick.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

ah... aH... AH... AUTISM! 🤧

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