Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will gather Americans’ private medical information for a new research on autism.
The National Institutes of Health’s director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, said on April 21 that the NIH will provide Kennedy information gleaned from many government and private databases,
According to CBS News. Kennedy is also starting a new registry to monitor Americans with autism. Kennedy has previously supported the scientifically disproven theory that vaccinations cause autism.
According to Bhattacharya, these data would be made available to ten to twenty independent research teams, who will also get grant funds to conduct Kennedy’s autism investigations.
For the first time, he said, researchers would be able to examine “comprehensive” patient data with “broad coverage” of the American population.
