RFK Jr.'s Autism Registry Is a Civil Liberties Catastrophe in the Making

He’s treating autistic people like a disease to be monitored, starting with their medical records.

I wasn’t planning to write this today. I thought I could make it through the week without feeling like we’d slipped into a dystopian screenplay written by a conspiracy theorist with a vendetta. But then I read about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to build a national registry of autistic people using private medical records. And I saw red.

According to NIH …