His idea evokes the danger posed historically by officials who view people who are mentally ill or physically disabled as a ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...

After the 2024 presidential election, my daughter told me that she was afraid people with autism would be "persecuted." As ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on May 7, 2025, to reflect that the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a partnership on that day ...

Is RFK Jr. Making an ‘Autism Registry’? The internet recently went abuzz with claims that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new registry to track ...

To assist him in his quest to determine the cause — or causes — of autism ... Kennedy Jr. and his hand-picked researchers will have access to a so-called “disease registry” of autistic ...

Kennedy — who has previously promoted a scientifically debunked claim that autism is caused by vaccines — is also launching a new registry to ... trackers and more. RFK Jr. Says People with ...

Richard Angwin, an X user with more than 190,000 followers, wrote: "RFK Jr.'s autism registry is a chilling overreach, tracking private medical data without consent violates HIPAA and echoes eugenics.

According to RFK Jr., this national autism registry would aim to collect private medical data from multiple sources, such as insurance records, pharmaceutical information, data from connected ...

We should have had these answers 20 years ago." Richard Angwin, an X user with more than 190,000 followers, wrote: "RFK Jr.'s autism registry is a chilling overreach, tracking private medical data ...

Thus, it is demonstrably true that HHS contradicted Bhattacharya's initial comments regarding the creation of an autism registry. ABC News. "HHS Sec. RFK Jr. Announces Findings of Autism Survey ...