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.”

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        I’m glad you’re doing what you want with your own body. Tough to do these days it seems.

        I’m saving heroin use for my later years personally. I’m sure I will be in much more pain then. (If I make it that far)

        • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 hours ago

          Honestly, I don’t recommend it. The drawbacks are much bigger than the benefits.

          If you want a legendary high in your old age that also won’t kill you or make you an asshole, I highly recommend LSD combined with Nitrous Oxide. Turn the brain on with LSD, and turn the body off with laughing gas for 30 seconds at a time to ride in and out of pure creative consciousness. Works pretty well with MDMA too, but that can hit the stomach hard, and could be a bad idea for an older person.

          Heroin will just remove all feelings of guilt and remorse for your actions until you subtly shift out of alignment with your own values. It removes all fear, which is what people get addicted to, but then you become a total piece of shit because you will feel no negative impact from being cruel. That’s the secret that I wish I had known going in. Don’t become a nasty tempered old junkie—that is a tired cliche and there are much better highs.