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@RonFilipkowski 1).
„ @SecKennedy 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.

@RonFilipkowski @SecKennedy 2).
Seven of the cited sources don't appear to exist at all [1]”.

„Dr. Katherine Keyes, a researcher cited in the report as a first author of a paper on rates of depression

@RonFilipkowski @SecKennedy 3).
and anxiety among teens during the pandemic, confirmed to ABC News that she did not write a paper cited in the report... [2].”

@RonFilipkowski @SecKennedy 4).
„Some of the citations that underpin the science in the @WhiteHouse's sweeping »MAHA Report« appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific references and invented studies, AI experts said Thurs.

@RonFilipkowski @SecKennedy @WhiteHouse 5).
@RobertKennedyJr has long vowed to use AI to make America’s health care better and more efficient, recently saying in a congressional hearing that he had even seen an AI nurse prototype »that could revolutionize health delivery in rural areas« [3].”

@RonFilipkowski @SecKennedy @WhiteHouse @RobertKennedyJr 6).
„An updated version of the report was posted online Thurs. with some changes to the text and the works cited.

@RonFilipkowski @SecKennedy @WhiteHouse @RobertKennedyJr 7)
@RobertKennedyJr said on »The Ultimate Human« podcast this week that the National Institutes of Health would devote about a fifth of its budget to »replication« and would stop publishing research in prominent peer-reviewed journals such as @JAMA_current, @NEJM and @TheLancet.

@RonFilipkowski @SecKennedy @WhiteHouse @RobertKennedyJr @JAMA_current @NEJM @TheLancet 8).
– »We are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing there« – Kennedy said. – »We’re going to create our own journals in-house in each of the institutes. They will become the preeminent journals« [4].”

Thurs., May 29, 2025

@RonFilipkowski @SecKennedy @WhiteHouse @RobertKennedyJr @JAMA_current @NEJM @TheLancet 9).
Endnotes:

[1] @NOTUSreports archive.ph/ACooH

[2] @ABC abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-j…

[3] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 (@washingtonpost) archive.ph/Ne6lc

[4] @CNN edition.cnn.com/2025/05/29/hea…

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