RFK Jr's team adds new errors to its 'MAHA' report, making the fiasco worse
Source: MSNBC
RFK Jr’s team adds new errors to its ‘MAHA’ report, making the fiasco worse
Just when it seemed Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "MAHA" report couldn't become more embarrassing, newly added errors have taken this to a new level.
June 2, 2025, 8:42 AM EDT
By Steve Benen
Within hours of Donald Trump and his White House team unveiling “The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again” two weeks ago, problems emerged. The Washington Post reported, for example, that some of the report’s suggestions “stretched the limits of science,” and offered “misleading representations” of scientific research.
A week later, a devastating report published by NOTUS advanced the underlying story considerably, highlighting the unambiguous fact that the MAHA document “misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.” Soon after, The New York Times identified “additional faulty references” in the report, including instances in which the document’s authors pointed to “fictitious studies.”
It seemed hard to believe this debacle could get worse, but it did. NOTUS reported in a follow-up article that several of the errors from the original report have been edited or removed, but in the process, administration officials have added new errors, including updated citations that “misinterpret scientific studies.” From the article:
“One study NOTUS identified as misinterpreted in the original report was intended to support the claim that psychotherapy is more effective for children than medication for treating mental health concerns. That study was swapped out with a new “systematic overview” authored by psychologist Pim Cuijpers, who told NOTUS via email that MAHA’s new citation is also wrong. Cuijpers said his referenced study doesn’t cover psychiatric medications in children at all — the research was focused on adults. The citation is located in a section of the MAHA report titled, “American children are highly medicated — and it’s not working.”
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Sorry MAGA and Fox, but your stupid precious orange man baby god emperor king couldn't govern his way out of a paper bag. He and his goon squad are incompetent fools and extremely terrible. They all need to go. 