JB Pritzker signs order to fight RFK Jr.’s data collection on autism

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JB Pritzker signs order to fight RFK Jr.’s data collection on autism

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is leading the charge to protect residents in his state from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial autism database, signing an executive order on Wednesday to shield Illinoians’ medical information from the feds. Kennedy, who has spread conspiracy theories about autism and recently faced a backlash for broadly painting people with autism as incapable of leading a normal life, raised further fears after he announced that HHS would establish a registry of people with autism as part of his dubious fishing expedition into the “root causes” of the disorder. For the record, those ..