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New RFK Jr Scandal: MAHA Report is a Steaming Pile [1]
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Date: 2025-05-29
RFK Jr’s Department of Health and Human Services just released their much hyped MAHA report and it’s more ha ha than MAHA.
From NOTUS:
A "Make America Healthy Again"(MAHA) report submitted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as representing the "gold-standard” of health science is anything but. That is the conclusion of a report from NOTUS that noted that among the 500 studies cited, it is "rife with errors," misstated conclusions and points to sources that do not exist.
From The Guardian:
Two supposed studies on ADHD medication advertising simply do not exist in the journals where they are claimed to be published. Virginia Commonwealth University confirmed to Notus that researcher Robert L Findling, listed as an author of one paper, never wrote such an article, while another citation leads only to the Kennedy report itself when searched online. Harold J Farber, a pediatric specialist supposedly behind research on asthma overprescribing, told Notus he never wrote the cited paper and had never worked with the other listed authors.
Even the Daily Beast and the Cato Institute called this out. From the Daily Beast:
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” one expert, epidemiologist Katherine Keyes, told the title. She was linked to a study on anxiety in adolescents. The MAHA report states that the study is from the 12th issue of the 176th edition of the journal JAMA Pediatrics. It isn’t. No such study with that title exists in the 176th edition. snip Another study about mental health medication in children appeared to have a completely made-up ADHD researcher, according to NOTUS.
The Cato Institute pilloried the whole MAHA idea:
Again? Make America Healthy Again? It’s an odd slogan in a country that has long ranked last in health outcomes among its peers. If the United States were merged with Canada, Greenland, and Panama, our average health statistics would improve overnight. snip The president’s executive order gave the Commission 100 days to develop a strategy. One hundred days! Why so long? Surely, a policy analysis on such a complex and nuanced issue with myriad complicating factors could be produced over a weekend. Particularly as, of the 14 MAHA commissioners, only two (Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Marty Makary) have medical or scientific backgrounds. The rest are mostly lawyers, all are political appointees, and everybody knows that a group of politically appointed lawyers is just the ticket for investigating matters of medical science.
The report is being ridiculed from all sides and rightfully so. Robert F Kennedy’s sole contribution to science will be adding ‘bullshit’ to the medical lexicon. Every person who voted to confirm him needs to face a reckoning.
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