The National Institutes of Health director announces his agency will create a “disease registry” of people with autism—to be compiled without consent, via confidential private and government health records—some members of the autism community understandably heard it as a threat. After all, the announcement came a mere week after his boss, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stated that children with autism will never lead productive lives. And elsewhere, the president and various political appointees have mocked people with disabilities. MAGA