and Arrogant and has fired all the people at CDC and NIH who conduct such studies.

So, he thinks he can demand a mandatory registry? COURTS? Your turn.

The NIH has been funding autism research for years, with all the protections you mention.

Trump's minions defunded all that research, fired the scientists who oversee the studies and ensure patient protections - and now they want to get the names of people with autism to do.... what?

Very ominous.

Trump is already on record telling his nephew that he should let his disabled son die.

He pretends to care but his actions speak loudly.

Trump and his minions are targeting what they label "undesirables." Anyone who isn't white, straight, cis gender, Christian (preferably Protestant), and "able-bodied" is a target. Uppity women are targets. People with academic degrees are targets. Teachers are targets. Health care providers who insist on delivering health care based on best practices instead of folk remedies are targets. Artists and writers and historians are targets.

Listen to the words they say and watch what they do. They view anybody who is different from their Aryan ideal as enemies. We are "poisoning the blood" of "true Americans."

This is straight out of the Nazi playbook. Literally.

Bhattacharya is a physician who was teaching at Stanford and is new head of NIH

Bio
Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. He holds courtesy appointments as Professor in Economics and in Health Research and Policy. He directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world with a particular emphasis on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. Dr. Bhattacharya’s peer-reviewed research has been published in economics, statistics, legal, medical, public health, and health policy journals. He holds an MD and PhD in economics from Stanford University.

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The issue at hand and if he is that ignorant to not know what would be required with a MANDATED registry as opposed to an IRB -approved and VOLUNTARY cohort study then HE is either being misquoted, or holds no more expertise than RFK or Florida’s “Stanford-trained” but anti-vax moron that DeSantis holds out as an infectious disease/ public health expert despite no specific training in those fields.

You do not want to promote this BS. I can assure you that you do not. I put my decades of work for an unnamed Federal agency (for what should be obvious reasons) and two academic appointments-- actually conducting such studies-- against him or anyone else. I can only hope he was misquoted.

I would feel the same way no matter who wanted it, but especially with this psychotic bunch in power.

My mind immediately goes to a European regime in the thirties and forties.

He's been obsessed with the idea for years now., deades even. First it was the dtap vaccine, but I think (although I'm not sure) he switched over to the MMR vaccine, based on Andrew Wakefield's discredited work (Google Andrew Wakefield if you're not familiar with that whole saga). Basically, RFK Jr thinks vaccines cause autism, so it doesn't surprise me at all that he is proposing a registry for people with autism.

As much as I dislike the man, I doubt he has euthanasia in mind. I think he actually wants to help people with autism and their families but has let crackpot conspiracy theories pull him down the wrong rabbit holes.

That's NOT to say he isn't a dangerous person to be put in charge of the nationxs public health. He definitely IS, no doubt about it. And there's no telling what the Orange Hellbeast might eventually decide to do with information like this.

The links below are for anyone interested in knowing more about RFK Jr's antivaxx activism and why his claims are false. They are all from the past five months; the first one is the most recent. These are all from a quick Google search, and I haven't gone over them all with a fine toothed comb; however, they are from sources I believe to be trustworthy.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/20/autism-vaccines-robert-f-kennedy-jr-usa-donald-trump

https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/12/what-to-know-about-robert-f-kennedy-jrs-anti-vaccine-advocacy/

https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/factcheck-org-kennedy-cites-flawed-paper-in-bid-to-justify-vaccine-autism-link/

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/vaccine-autism-rfk-jr-how-science-proves-vaccines-do-not-cause-autism/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/health/kennedy-autism-causes/index.html

There is lots, lots, lots more info available out there. I have not included any links that support RFK Jr's claims, because I believe they have all been thoroughly discredited. If anyone wants to investigate that stuff, feel free to do so. I do not wish to be party to that by providing any of those links.

Can we add him to Orrex’s thread?

Millions of autistic moms have been following him for years. That’s how he got his 10% ratings in some states in the primaries. Trump wanted him for that 10% of voters.

In 2007 when Kennedy worked with River Keepers cleaning up mercury from the Hudson River - autistic moms contacted him because they believed mercury in kids vaccines & teeth contributed to their kids autism. He wasn’t really interested but they said they were not taking no for an answer. So on 2007, the World Mercury Project was born and Kennedy became the chairman of the World Mercury Project - looking at Mercury that was then used in childhood vaccines . Around 2013 - that agency turned into Children’s Health Defence run by moms of autistic kids. Kennedy chaired CHD for 8 yrs. CHD has millions of autistic moms following Kennedy.

Like them or not, CHD has millions in funding from subscribers, puts out many daily podcasts on autism and has an Autism bus that travels around the US meeting parents of autistic kids & the kids at each stop., They put kids pictures on the walls of the bus from each stop they make.

Mercury was removed from childhood vaccines but CDC on their website says it’s still in multi dose flu vaccines. There are about 6 or 7 flu vaccines so I think it’s a good idea to ask your pharmacy for the mercury free ones. Aluminum is the adjuvant that has taken mercury’s place in dead virus vaccines. Live virus vaccines like MMR do not need aluminum.

CDC- https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccine-safety/thimerosal.html

“ Thimerosal is an ethyl mercury-based preservative used in vials that contain more than one dose of a vaccine (multi-dose vials) to prevent germs, bacteria and/or fungi from contaminating the vaccine.”

Registry is not necessarily a bad idea.

a good thing.

Long range and ongoing comprehensive studies of diseases can be and has been beneficial.

In my profession, one such study was ground breaking and the results lead to much knowledge and treatment of the condition

That study was NIH and University conducted however which is not likely with this bunch

They will most likely be a hammer looking for a nail.

I work for the IHS and am contemplating what insight our medical info has on autism

His LIE is that he knows autism is a preventable disease, and that is totally unfounded. He knows NOTHING about autism..he knows only what he filters through his off-the-cuff, idiotic sources.


This man wants to invade data to manipulate it...... he should be fired.

I despise this God damn menace.

These people are evil.

is very upset by this. He is struggling with junior college and dropped out, living with my daughter and trying to figure out what to do. He has had great help all his life and did well in school with some help but being on his own was overwhelming.

He is very smart and paying attention to what's happening. It's the social part and staying still, he paces a lot.

Right now he is learning a foreign language for something to do. My daughter told him you need a purpose doesn't matter what it is.