Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Make America healthy again“The reports on the causes of chronic diseases in children have cited more than 500 studies, but some of them do not exist, and digital news media do not.
Notus found Thursday that the seven cited studies never appeared to have been published. The author of one of the studies said that although she did study child anxiety, she did not write the report listed in the Maha report. Some research has also been misunderstood in the report. The citation in question is about children's screen time, medications and anxiety.
Current and former federal health officials have raised many questions about the report, which they say misunderstood several facts and that drivers have been well documented as being known to be causing chronic diseases in children that health authorities are already working to address.
The report describes the growth rate of several health problems, including childhood obesity, diabetes, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cancer, allergies and autoimmune diseases. It accuses poor diet and Super processed foodlack of physical exercise, chronic stress and too much prescription and vaccines for children's health diseases.
The reporter asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in the absence of research on Thursday and said the report would be updated.
"I understand that the MAHA report is addressing some formatting issues, and the report will be updated," Levitt said in a White House briefing. "However, it does not negate the essence of the report, which, as you know, is one of the most transformative health reports the federal government has ever made."
CBS News Medical Writer Dr. Céline Gounder raises the idea that errors are just a matter of “formatting”, calling it “not only slippery, but also truly immoral behavior.”
"There are fingerprints for AI in this report," she added. "It's just immoral, it's not something the U.S. government should be involved."
Kennedy repeatedly said he would bring "radical transparency" and "gold standard" science to public health agencies. But the secretary refused to publish details about who wrote the 72-page report, which called for more review of childhood review vaccine Arrange and describe the children of the country as over-breeding and under-nutrition.
Levitt said the White House had "full confidence" in Kennedy.
"The smaller citations and formatting errors were corrected," HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said in an emailed statement, describing the report as "a historic and transformative assessment of the federal government to understand that the chronic disease epidemic has caused children in our country to suffer."
The report applies to the formulation of policy recommendations to be released later this year. The White House has asked Congress to provide $500 million in fundraising for Kennedy's Maha initiative.