White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s MAHA report

The White House volition hole errors successful a much-anticipated national authorities study spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F

WASHINGTON -- The White House volition hole errors successful a much-anticipated national authorities study spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which decried America's nutrient supply, pesticides and medicine drugs.

Kennedy's wide-ranging “Make America Healthy Again” report, released past week, cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the quality enactment NOTUS recovered that immoderate of those studies did not really exist.

Asked astir the report's problems, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said the study volition beryllium updated.

“I recognize determination was immoderate formatting issues with the MAHA study that are being addressed and the study volition beryllium updated.” Leavitt told reporters during her briefing. “But it does not negate the substance of the report, which, arsenic you know, is 1 of the astir transformative wellness reports that has ever been released by the national government.

Kennedy has repeatedly said helium would bring “radical transparency” and “gold-standard” subject to the nationalist wellness agencies. But the caput refused to merchandise details astir who authored the 72-page report, which calls for accrued scrutiny of the puerility vaccine docket and describes the nation's children arsenic overmedicated and undernourished.

Leavitt said that the White House has “complete confidence” successful Kennedy.

“Minor citation and formatting errors person been corrected,” HHS Spokesman Andrew Nixon said successful an emailed statement. He described the study arsenic a “historic and transformative appraisal by the national authorities to recognize the chronic illness epidemic afflicting our nation's children.”

NOTUS reported connected Thursday greeting that 7 of the much than 500 studies cited successful the study did not look to person ever been published. An writer of 1 survey confirmed that portion she conducted probe connected the topics of anxiousness successful children, she ne'er authored the study listed. Some studies were besides misinterpreted successful the MAHA report. The problematic citations were connected topics astir children's surface time, medicine usage and anxiety.

Kennedy's MAHA study had already been stoking concerns among Trump loyalists, including farmers who criticized however the study characterized the chemicals sprayed connected U.S. crops.

The study is expected to beryllium utilized to make argumentation recommendations that volition beryllium released aboriginal this year. The White House has requested a $500 cardinal boost successful backing from Congress for Kennedy's MAHA initiative.

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Associated Press writer Will Weissert contributed.

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