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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 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 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 29 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Didn’t the Nazi’s do this too?

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 3 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 4 hours ago

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

[–] choab@discuss.online 5 points 3 hours ago
[–] Psiczar@aussie.zone 13 points 5 hours ago

RFK jr, the Republican Joseph Mengele

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 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 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 9 points 4 hours ago (1 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.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 points 5 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 3 points 5 hours ago
[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works -5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

An admirable goal, even though I'm pretty sure current science says it's not possible. I don't think he's smart, but maybe the actual smart people working on this will get somewhere, and if that helps people, that's good.

Might not get anywhere, but I suppose it's worth a try (assuming the academics involved think there's a good reason).

At face value, it does seem like an invasion of privacy, if there's no consent to share medical records, etc.

p.s. the nazi comments are kinda gross, if they wanted to exterminate disabled people, they surely wouldn't need to make headlines about them gathering data, it could be a private affair.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

You know what would be an admirable goal? Curing whatever made you post this comment. To that end I've put you in RFK's database because you might be struggling with context.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago) (1 children)

Wow you have totally changed my mind about my original post!

Serious though, just here for discussion, but it seems that there's a lot of sheep here that dont question anything or try to expand upon their knowledge.. which is a problem, why can't you reply with something constructive?

Keep reading your headlines that fuel your anger if that's what you want, but don't reply to people that oppose your views if you have nothing to add.

You had a chance with your reply to help me and possibly others understand your viewpoint more, but all you have done is make me hate u lol.

Tangent warning thats too late

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 5 minutes ago

Serious though, just here for discussion, but it seems that there’s a lot of sheep here that dont question anything or try to expand upon their knowledge… which is a problem, why can’t you reply with something constructive?

Have you considered that I chose to respond the way I did and not because I am a sheeple?

You had a chance with your reply to help me and possibly others understand your viewpoint more, but all you have done is make me hate u lol.

I am not responsible for your emotions.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 38 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's not contagious you fuckstick.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

ah... aH... AH... AUTISM! 🤧

[–] TON618@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm more worried about why he's doing it, than that he's doing it to be honest, because the only realistic use case I see for this is eugenics.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 67 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In 1936, three years after taking power, the Nazis ordered families with a mentally or physically handicapped person to send them to nearby hospitals for the best treatment. Soon after, they started receiving letters that their loved one had passed away.

The first to notice the pattern was the clergy, who realized that the families in their congregations who had vulnerable members were ALL getting these letters, and they rightfully concluded that a euthanasia program was going on.

Many spoke out from the pulpit, demanding an end to this atrocity, and Hitler responded, saying he was shocked at this revelation, and promising to end it. He didn't, of course, he just buried it, expanded it, and evolved it into the Holocaust.

To Nazis, the best way to reduce the statistics of autistic people, is to reduce the numbers of autistic people, and the first step in doing that is to compile their names.

Of course, the real issue is HOW are they going to reduce the autistic population? Considering how much MAGA openly admires the Nazis, it's not hard to make an educated guess.

[–] werewolfborg@ttrpg.network 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

They don’t even have to kill anyone on purpose. They just have to force people to undergo experimental autism cures, which have historically killed patients. An example of this would be chelation therapy, aka using the medication used to remove heavy metals from the body under the (unconfirmed) assumption that autism is caused by heavy metals.

If a database is good enough to connect pharmacy records, medical records, and even health info from smart watches (which a doctor or insurance company would not have access to) then it would need to link patient info together in a way that’s not as anonymous as they claim it to be. Theoretically, this could be enough information to force someone into doing these experimental treatments in order to keep their driver’s license (even if they’re otherwise high functioning enough to not be hospitalized) or force someone to be hospitalized with promises of being taught to be more independent later down the line.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

They don’t even have to kill anyone on purpose.

They intend to starve the disabled financially as community outcasts.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What are you saying? That the poor are outcasts looked down upon by the vast majority of people regardless of their political beliefs?

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

For some cases, being marginalized is far worse than dying.

[–] simsalabim@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

They don't even have to experiment on people, they just have to forcefully sterilize them.

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