The data mining that RFKJr wants to do with the health insurance records of Americans is going to go to a guy who chemically castrated autistic children and called it treatment.
STAT – Vaccine critic’s apparent selection to head HHS autism study shocks experts – Like RFK Jr., David Grier has long clung to debunked assertions, scientists say By Helen Branswell March 26, 2025 Geier and his father, a physician who lost his medical license in multiple states, have promoted claims that use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines led to an increase in autism diagnoses. A raft of studies has refuted the allegation, and autism rates have not declined in the more than 20 years since thimerosal was phased out of most vaccines in the United States. For a time, the two treated autistic children with unproven therapies, including a drug licensed for prostate cancer that induces chemical castration. In the early 2000s, Geier and his father were granted access to vaccine safety data maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the grounds they were conducting a study into adverse events following receipt of a vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. But their access was later terminated after officials concluded they were instead trying to mine the data for evidence that the DTaP vaccine triggered higher rates of autism in children who received it and to manipulate the data in ways that could have undermined the confidentiality of the people whose information was in the database. (emphasis added)
The HHS agency is walking back the declaration to gather health records and create an autism registry. Obviously the public outrage and probably letters to Repubilcan lawmakers was bad enough to make them back peddle. But I still think we need a shadow government operation to specifically keep a close eye on what’s going on at this vast health agency.