Anecdote of a Nazi

So RFK Jr. is going to to build a government data base out of private medical records to track useless eaters people with autism in real time.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is set to amass the private medical records of Americans for a new autism study. 

On April 21, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — director of the National Institutes of Health — announced that the NIH will provide Kennedy with data pulled from a number of federal and commercial databases, CBS News reports.

Kennedy — who has previously promoted a scientifically debunked claim that autism is caused by vaccines — is also launching a new registry to track Americans with autism.

Bhattacharya explained that between 10 and 20 outside groups of researchers will have access to these records, and they will be provided with grant funding to carry out Kennedy’s autism studies. He added that this data will allow researchers to study “comprehensive” patient data with “broad coverage” of the U.S. population for the first time.

Bhattacharya said during a presentation that the data will include medical records from pharmacy chains, lab tests, genomics data from patients treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, claims from private insurers, data from smartwatches and fitness trackers and more.

The NIH director noted that combining the data could lead to “real-time health monitoring” on Americans.

“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, per the outlet.

This news comes on the heels of statements Kennedy made at a press conference on April 16, when he claimed that “autism destroys families.”

“These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” he added.

I have such fond memories of those distant days when if you called these people fascists there would be much tut-tutting from Reasonable Centrists, while using the N word (the other N word) would cause veritable paroxysms of pearl clutching.

And then it turned out that all those accusations were quite literally true, and we never spoke of that again.

Here’s a poem for you Bobby:

I shouted out who killed the Kennedys

And why didn’t they kill more of them;

You should have taken flying lessons from your cousin

Or bought a hot shot from Belushi’s dealer

Your unfiltered eugenicist freak show

Does not give of bird or bush

Like nothing else in Tennessee