Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Wednesday to use medical data and records from people on Medicaid and Medicare to help study autism although experts say it’s unlikely to help reveal the condition’s root causes.

The program will involve a data sharing agreement between the National Institutes of Health, the government’s health research arm, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has access to claims data from nearly 150 million Americans across the country.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m compensating people carrying water for something unknown. It’s better to not argue in the directions unknown just because they are opposite to known bad.

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      You’re literally arguing an unknown.

      He’s going after autism because he’s afraid he has it? I think it’s more likely he’s a useful idiot and his “data” is picked up by a fascist government consolidating power by villianizing out-groups.

      But continue speculating on your own, I guess.