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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first group of people the Nazis exterminated was the disabled. When nobody pushed back they started exterminating other groups

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guess it's gonna happen again, because the Americans love letting this happen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I say we start with a brain worm registry

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alternative link for those who want an additional choice than American media: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/rfk-jr-autism-1.7516252

From the article:

more recently, news that the NIH will create a disease registry to track autistic Americans.

Now, he wants to create a registry of Americans with autism—pulling from a 1939 Nazi playbook.

Do these actions from RFK mean I will soon be able to qualify for political asylum in another country, if RFK is going to go after people with Autism here domestically? If it is not safe for me to remain in my country, but I am not sure I even have the necessary skills or resources to depart the country in due time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

At the moment there is no evidence to support anything more than misguided research. Anything is possible but don't start packing your bags yet.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

RFK is a dangerous lunatic. The only things he would use that data for that I can think of are inhumane „experiments“ on no scientific basis and mass sterilizations. This is bad. This is very very bad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've yet to actually see any talks about mass sterilizations or anything like that. That's a crime against humanity and not sometimes that is likely to happen without resistance. It is also good that we have laws like HIPPA that protect user data. I think we need more collective action as individually we are weak. I'm not saying that crimes against humanity are impossible but I do think panicking and stressing a group that already has mental heath issues doesn't accomplish much.

One thing I've learned about the Autistic community is that we are all very resilient and can be very head strong when necessary. I think as a group we can do a lot as a many Autistic people are some of the nicest and most selfless people you will meet. I'm not sure what the future holds but we can face it together.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

"The idea of the platform is that the existing data resources are often fragmented and difficult to obtain. The NIH itself will often pay multiple times for the same data resource. Even data resources that are within the federal government are difficult to obtain,"

Yeah, there's a reason for that.

Medication records from pharmacy chains, lab testing and genomics data from patients treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, claims from private insurers and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers will all be linked together, he said. The NIH is also now in talks with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to broaden agreements governing access to their data

So all those promises that our medical data is sacred were just lies, got it.

In addition, a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism, which will be integrated into the data.

Preparatory steps to shipping people with autism off to camps.

Between 10 and 20 outside groups of researchers will be given grant funding and access to the records to produce Kennedy's autism studies. Bhattacharya did not give details on how they would be chosen, but said their selection would be "run through normal NIH processes."

Yeah, right, lmao.

the research they will back using the data will be "the highest quality proposals" that will range "from basic science to epidemiological approaches, to other more applied approaches" to treat and manage autism.

Yeah, it's the 'other, more applied approaches' that'll send people to camps.

He also acknowledged autism's wide variation in how it affects people. "I recognize, of course, that autism, there's a range of manifestations ranging from highly functioning children to children that are quite severely disabled. And of course the research will account very carefully for that," he said.

The research might (I doubt it), but the people using it won't. They'll use DOGE- and ICE-like levels of discrimination to target everyone they can.

While the selected researchers will be able to access and study the private medical data, Bhattacharya said they will not be able to download it. He promised "state of the art protections" to protect confidentiality.

Fucking bullshit lies, that is.

By bringing the data into one place, he said it could give health agencies a window into "real-time health monitoring" on Americans for studying other health problems too.

Yeah, that's not scary, either.

"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.

I bet you had AI generate that meaningless slop, didn't you. Sounds good, but meaning fucking nothing. Fucking Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can we not autoplay videos please?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It doesn't autoplay for me. What Lemmy client are you using?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Same, and I'm using a Firefox based browser.

[–] stembolts 3 points 2 days ago

Block all JavaScript. I know, it's annoying to manually allow-list scripts but the alternative is more annoying.

My top tools are NoScript for Firefox mobile, uMatrix for Firefox desktop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

can someone give summary what's going on there?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The US government is gathering up as much data on who's autistic for research apparently.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

thanks. I guess not for a scientific purposes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Researching who to grab off the street and send to a "wellness farm"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

this is roman salute, that is wellness farm

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

There isn't any evidence I've seen to support that but I think it is very worrying to many as it is hard to know what the data will be used for. We are talking about a guy who called Autism a epidemic and I think some are fearful that the "cure" involves violence and genocide.

As always, do your own research and come to your own conclusions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Please keep it civil here