Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Wednesday to use medical data and records from people on Medicaid and Medicare to help study autism although experts say it’s unlikely to help reveal the condition’s root causes.
The program will involve a data sharing agreement between the National Institutes of Health, the government’s health research arm, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has access to claims data from nearly 150 million Americans across the country.
How the fuck are you getting a valid random sample of people with autistic diagnoses/characteristics by limiting yourself to Medicaid/Medicare recipients?
Crackpots don’t pay any attention to proper experimental design or statistical analysis.