RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

The IbanezerScrooge · May 30, 2025

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team

www.theguardian.com

Another source:

US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say

Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.

www.bbc.com

They are literally making stuff up to justify their policies.

Sif · May 30, 2025

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team

www.theguardian.com

The IbanezerScrooge said:
Another source:

US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say

Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.

www.bbc.com

They are literally making stuff up to justify their policies.

What ever it takes to get their goals accomplished, it seems.

FreeinChrist · May 30, 2025

The IbanezerScrooge said:
RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies

Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team

www.theguardian.com

Another source:

US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say

Authors of several studies cited in the report told news outlets they did not write them and the studies did not exist.

www.bbc.com

They are literally making stuff up to justify their policies.

That is such a dishonest, deceptive thing to do.

essentialsaltes · May 31, 2025

To celebrate the AI hallucinations in the report...

RFK Jr. Did Raw-Milk Shooters in the White House

[RFK Jr.] recorded an interview with wellness influencer Paul Saladino, which culminated in the two doing raw-milk shooters in the White House.

Saladino was one of many influencers invited to the White House to help roll out Kennedy’s MAHA agenda this week. Other invitees included longtime RFK supporter and influencer Vani Hari, a.k.a. the Food Babe; anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Sayer Ji, and the fitness influencer and biohacker Ben Greenfield (known for such writing as [nope].

Say it aint so · May 31, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
To celebrate the AI hallucinations in the report...

RFK Jr. Did Raw-Milk Shooters in the White House
[RFK Jr.] recorded an interview with wellness influencer Paul Saladino, which culminated in the two doing raw-milk shooters in the White House.

Saladino was one of many influencers invited to the White House to help roll out Kennedy’s MAHA agenda this week. Other invitees included longtime RFK supporter and influencer Vani Hari, a.k.a. the Food Babe; anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Sayer Ji, and the fitness influencer and biohacker Ben Greenfield (known for such writing as [nope].

The growing popularity of unpasteurized milk in the United States raises public health concerns. We estimated outbreak-related illnesses and hospitalizations caused by the consumption of cow’s milk and cheese contaminated with Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter spp. using a model relying on publicly available outbreak data. In the United States, outbreaks associated with dairy consumption cause, on average, 760 illnesses/year and 22 hospitalizations/year, mostly from Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter spp. Unpasteurized milk, consumed by only 3.2% of the population, and cheese, consumed by only 1.6% of the population, caused 96% of illnesses caused by contaminated dairy products. Unpasteurized dairy products thus cause 840 (95% CrI 611–1,158) times more illnesses and 45 (95% CrI 34–59) times more hospitalizations than pasteurized products. As consumption of unpasteurized dairy products grows, illnesses will increase steadily; a doubling in the consumption of unpasteurized milk or cheese could increase outbreak-related illnesses by 96%.---NIH

Thus why RFKjr is preventing government written research being made available to the public.

Larniavc · May 31, 2025

These days America really does seem like the land of faery tale; where all sorts of wonderful magical things are somehow believed to be real.

The IbanezerScrooge · Jun 2, 2025

Say it aint so said:
The growing popularity of unpasteurized milk in the United States raises public health concerns. We estimated outbreak-related illnesses and hospitalizations caused by the consumption of cow’s milk and cheese contaminated with Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter spp. using a model relying on publicly available outbreak data. In the United States, outbreaks associated with dairy consumption cause, on average, 760 illnesses/year and 22 hospitalizations/year, mostly from Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter spp. Unpasteurized milk, consumed by only 3.2% of the population, and cheese, consumed by only 1.6% of the population, caused 96% of illnesses caused by contaminated dairy products. Unpasteurized dairy products thus cause 840 (95% CrI 611–1,158) times more illnesses and 45 (95% CrI 34–59) times more hospitalizations than pasteurized products. As consumption of unpasteurized dairy products grows, illnesses will increase steadily; a doubling in the consumption of unpasteurized milk or cheese could increase outbreak-related illnesses by 96%.---NIH

Thus why RFKjr is preventing government written research being made available to the public.

I'm sorry, but I was assured by the Right that RFK's kooky beliefs would have no impact on public health and would, in fact, Make America Healthy Again! Are you saying they... lied to me??

durangodawood · Jun 2, 2025

...Guohua Li, a Columbia University professor who was named as an author of a report on the mental health of children in the pandemic, told Agence France-Presse that the reference was "totally fabricated" and that he does not even know the listed co-author....

Finally, we have leadership who fully get that public and personal health is a vibe, not a science.

Akita Suggagaki · Jun 2, 2025

The New ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Is Filled with Artificial Ingredients

The New ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Is Filled with Artificial Ingredients | National Review

RFK Jr.’s signature report on his health agenda seems to contain some odd stuff, and it probably isn’t all that good for you.

www.nationalreview.com

This Administration seems to try to be the opposite of what it should be.

essentialsaltes · Jun 2, 2025

What happens when you try to fix 'formatting errors' really quickly?

RFK Jr’s team adds new errors to its ‘MAHA’ report, making the fiasco worse

several of the errors from the original report have been edited or removed, but in the process, administration officials have added new errors, including updated citations that “misinterpret scientific studies.”

Hans Blaster · Jun 2, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
What happens when you try to fix 'formatting errors' really quickly?

RFK Jr’s team adds new errors to its ‘MAHA’ report, making the fiasco worse
several of the errors from the original report have been edited or removed, but in the process, administration officials have added new errors, including updated citations that “misinterpret scientific studies.”

Misinterpretation of scientific studies is what I expected from them. I'm surprised it took them this long (in an edit) to do this.

essentialsaltes · Jun 2, 2025

Hans Blaster said:
Misinterpretation of scientific studies is what I expected from them. I'm surprised it took them this long (in an edit) to do this.

There was misinterpretation in the original document as well.

RFK Jr.’s ‘MAHA report’ revealed to have cited studies that don’t exist, and misinterpreted others

Bradskii · Jun 2, 2025

The IbanezerScrooge said:
They are literally making stuff up to justify their policies.

I'm going to be super generous here. There are over 500 citations in the report (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MAHA-Report-The-White-House.pdf) and I would expect a couple of errors. That there are more than a couple is concerning. It shows sloppy work. A lack of diligence. But I can't accept that it was intentional. Surely no-one would think that the authors of any study listed would not check to see how it had been used. Nobody is stupid enough to think that 'hey, no-one will notice'.

Well, except maybe the guy sitting behind the Resolute Desk.

Aryeh Jay · Jun 3, 2025

FreeinChrist said:
That is such a dishonest, deceptive thing to do.

It's apparently the government that Americans want.

durangodawood · Jun 3, 2025

I should have majored in Nonexistent Studies.

Apparently there's a lot of work in that field.

Aryeh Jay · Jun 3, 2025

durangodawood said:
I should have majored in Nonexistent Studies.

Apparently there's a lot of work in that field.

The field of made up history is flourishing!

Bradskii · Jun 3, 2025

The IbanezerScrooge said:
They are literally making stuff up to justify their policies.

I'm going to be super generous here. There are over 500 citations in the report (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MAHA-Report-The-White-House.pdf) and I would expect a couple of errors. That there are more than a couple is concerning. It shows sloppy work. A lack of diligence. But I can't accept that it was intentional. Surely no-one would think that the authors of any study listed would not check to see how it had been used. Nobody is stupid enough to think that 'hey, no-one will notice'.

Well, except maybe the guy sitting behind the Resolute Desk.

RocksInMyHead · Jun 4, 2025

Bradskii said:
I'm going to be super generous here. There are over 500 citations in the report (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MAHA-Report-The-White-House.pdf) and I would expect a couple of errors. That there are more than a couple is concerning. It shows sloppy work. A lack of diligence. But I can't accept that it was intentional. Surely no-one would think that the authors of any study listed would not check to see how it had been used. Nobody is stupid enough to think that 'hey, no-one will notice'.

Well, except maybe the guy sitting behind the Resolute Desk.

Citing papers that literally don't exist isn't the sort of error that anyone should expect. Generally speaking, when writing such a report, the expectation is that the author (or authors) have actually read the sources that they're citing from (or at least the relevant sections of those sources). The only ways you end up citing a non-existent paper are if you deliberately made it up or you used AI to write the report rather than researching and writing it yourself. One of those is worse than the other, but only marginally.

Akita Suggagaki · Jun 4, 2025

RocksInMyHead said:
Citing papers that literally don't exist isn't the sort of error that anyone should expect. Generally speaking, when writing such a report, the expectation is that the author (or authors) have actually read the sources that they're citing from (or at least the relevant sections of those sources). The only ways you end up citing a non-existent paper are if you deliberately made it up or you used AI to write the report rather than researching and writing it yourself. One of those is worse than the other, but only marginally.

Standard for this administration.

loveofourlord · Jun 4, 2025

Aryeh Jay said:
The field of made up history is flourishing!

hey david bartons been making money on that for decades.

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