The highly controversial Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is responsible for defining American health policy and philosophy, has long propagated the myth that “autism comes from vaccines.”
Washington DC: The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ (MAHA) commission of the US government, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is in a precarious position after a health report it issued referenced “totally fabricated” study data. The health of American children was the subject of the report.
The report was published in two forms during the past week: the first on May 22 and the updated and improved version on May 29. However, following closer examination, it was discovered that the studies cited in the report, which served as the foundation for all of its conclusions, were wholly false. The scholars who were mistakenly identified as the authors of those research brought this to light.
Focusing on the chronic disease epidemic among youngsters in America, the paper detailed its causes and included its conclusions based on studies that scholars claim were “fabricated.” According to the US digital news outlet NOTUS, the revised report also contained seven sources that are nonexistent.
However, the Trump Administration attempted to minimize the tragedy by stating that “formatting issues” were to blame. The nation’s leading health body, MAHA, will revise the study and provide an update, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, although she did not say when. Furthermore, she did not dispute the report’s main points.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came up with the idea for Make America Health Again, which is based on Donald Trump’s catchphrase, “Make America Great Again,” or MAGA, which the Republican leader has used extensively both during his election campaign and as president of the United States.
The highly controversial Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is responsible for defining American health policy and philosophy, has long propagated the myth that “autism comes from vaccines.”
President Trump’s executive order to “study the scope of the childhood chronic disease crisis and any potential contributing causes” prompted the group led by Mr. Kennedy Jr. to begin the research that is the subject of this week’s report.
The BBC claims that the writers of the research cited in the government report have stated that the studies do not even exist, let alone that they were not written.
In an interview with news agency AFP, Guohua Li, a professor at Columbia University and one of the named authors, claimed that the paper to which their name is attached is “totally fabricated” and that the co-author, Noah Kreski, whose name is listed beside his, is a stranger to him.
Noah Kreski, a researcher at Columbia University, denied involvement in any such study when AFP reached him. He made the same claim regarding Mr. Li. Additionally, he stated, “It doesn’t appear to be a study that exists at all.”
Similar grievances have been raised by a number of other writers listed in the MAHA study who fear their names may be exploited for false research without their consent. Citations give scientific discoveries more legitimacy and authenticity and are an essential component of scientific study.
