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Hey, I don’t want to alarm anyone, but....we should all be alarmed. This kind of tracking is how the Nazis were able to kidnap and hide the fact that they were murdering differently abled children, well before the camps were built.

The National Institutes of Health is amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases to give to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new effort to study #autism, the #NIH's top official said Monday.

In addition, a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism, ....

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, ...."

#rfk #quacks #science #tracking #privacy #ppi #infosec

cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-autism
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@grammasaurus @gregggonsalves they're called "quacks." Have the unpleasant experience of dealing with just one of those, it can throw your faith in medicine completely out of whack. Some will never trust it again and others will become even more grateful for real Doctors. That's where the split between the educated blaming the system and the uninformed blaming medicine takes place, opening the door for politics. Why? Capitalism? A healthy nation is a strong nation, right? Seems like a nobrainer, what the current #POTUS would call, "common sense."

#disinformation #denialism #AntiScience #ScienceDenialism #quacks

The decline of Sabine Hossenfender as a science communicator is sad and worrying. As Professor Dave says, I don’t begrudge her attempt to make money in these hard times. But the way she happily will jettison science and replace it with paranoid accusations tells me she either has no principles she won’t sell for a buck, or she had fundamentally messed up principles to begin with.

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COVID-19 #contrarian doctors who became—or outed themselves as—#antivax in response to the pandemic, and then moved to become just generally antivax, are increasingly becoming just plain run-of-the-mill grifting #quacks.

This story reveals how increasingly the quacks have been taking sides.
In this case with Dr. Robert Malone increasingly coming under fire from his fellow COVID-19 antivaxxers like Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Paul Alexander for…reasons…and then firing back

sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-w

Science-Based Medicine · The Wellness Company: How antivaccine grift becomes plain old quackeryThe Wellness Company, promoted by Dr. Peter McCullough, is the product of a trend in which antivax doctors have predictably become just quacks. At least in this case, there is an amusing quack fight a