US EditionWhite House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report
- The White House acknowledged issues in the 'Make America Healthy Again' report led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., released last week.
- The report, aimed to address children's chronic disease, cited over 500 studies but some did not exist or were misinterpreted, according to NOTUS findings.
- Kennedy's 72-page report criticized the state of the U.S. Food system, pesticide usage, and prescription drug practices, while advocating for closer examination of vaccines administered to children.
- Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, indicated that the report is undergoing updates, with minor citation and formatting issues having been addressed.
- The report remains a historic federal assessment on children’s health, with $500 million funding requested to develop policy recommendations due later this year.
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Can we trust AI?
Recently, there have been reports of not only a MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) report from the Department of Health and Human Services that had artificial intelligence “formatting errors” but reports of AI-generated student papers that have citation errors. The Naval Postgraduate School Citation Guide states, “Generative AI tools can fabricate citations to sources that do not exist” and “create plausible-sounding statements that may not be tr…
The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means, RFK Jr.’s Right-Hand Man
One of the primary architects of the Make America Healthy Again takeover of the federal health apparatus, Means has risen to power in part on the strength of his personal narrative: he was a Big Food and Big Pharma lobbyist who saw the light. Yet, a six-month Vanity Fair investigation raises questions about whether Means has embellished his personal story. “Calley Means is not a whistleblower. He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make …
RFK Jr.’s Answer to US Health Crisis Is Citations Made Up by AI
The White House’s keystone health report outlining its agenda for Americans’ health is riddled with artificial intelligence “hallucinations,” with fabricated citations and broken links reflective of the administration’s embrace of non-scientific approaches to public health. An analysis by The Washington Post uncovered numerous citations in the “Make America Healthy Again” report with the… Source
White House tackles fake citations in MAHA report
What happenedThe White House Thursday acknowledged and scrambled to correct problems with the "Make America Healthy Again Commission" report released last week by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The MAHA report's citations "are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions," NOTUS reported Thursday morning, and several of the cited sources "don't appear to exist at all." Other news organizations identifie…
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