Four of the studies in the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) report on on children’s health do not exist, notes NOTUS:
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.
The AFP also reports:
Noah Kreski, a Columbia University researcher listed as an author of a paper on adolescent anxiety and depression during the Covid-19 pandemic, told AFP the citation is “not one of our studies” and “doesn’t appear to be a study that exists at all.
The citation includes a link that purports to send users to an article in peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA, but which is broken. Jim Michalski of JAMA Network Media Relations said it “was not published in JAMA Pediatrics or in any JAMA Network journal.”
AFP also spoke with Harold Farber, pediatrics professor at Baylor College of Medicine, who said the paper attributed to him “does not exist” nor had he ever collaborated with the co-authors credited in the MAHA report.
Similarly, Brian McNeill, spokesperson for Virginia Commonwealth University, confirmed that professor Robert Findling did not author a paper the report says he wrote about advertising of psychotropic medications for youth.
A fourth paper on ADHD medication, was also not published in the journal Pediatrics in 2008 as claimed in the MAHA report.
“I can confirm that we didn’t find that title in a site search,” said Alex Hulvalchick, media relations specialist for the journal’s publisher the American Academy of Pediatrics.
(Sources: AFP, NOTUS, Image: LiveNOW from Fox/YouTube)