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Privacy vs. Public Health

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The controversy brewing behind RFK Jr.’s national autism registry and data initiative Fact checked by Ros Lederman Peter J. Smith, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago, is quick to the point. “This is an absolute ethical minefield,” Smith says of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly announced […]