Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that Jay Bhattacharya’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Mehmet Oz’s the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will partner on a joint project seeking out the “root causes” of autism. But the scope of the project is even wider than at first glance—something you’d be unlikely to know if you only picked up legacy media’s biased version. More on that in a minute.
In a statement released jointly by the NIH and CMS, they explain that while “[t]his partnership will focus first on enabling research around the root causes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)[, over] the long term, the partnership will link real-world data, in a manner consistent with applicable privacy laws to protect Americans’ sensitive health information, for research on chronic conditions—a…
