Kennedy’s MAHA release a bit embarrassing
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, JR released his much-anticipated “Make America Healthy Again” report on May 22. The Secretary, who is on record against many immunizations, flouridated water, and quite a few other positions considered controversial, had promised a sort of roadmap to help the country’s children get healthier. Unfortunately, there were a few problems with it.
The highly anticipated “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) report was released on May 22 by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the presidential commission tasked with assessing drivers of childhood chronic disease.
As would any reputable paper on human health, corroborating studies were noted. Only one small problem – many of the studies didn’t exist.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described the mishaps as “formatting issues” during a press briefing Thursday.
Formatting errors? Non-existent studies? That is the rosiest possible explanation… at best.
Noah Kreski, a Columbia University researcher listed as an author of a paper on adolescent anxiety and depression during the Covid-19 pandemic, told AFP the paper is “not one of our studies” and “doesn’t appear to be a study that exists at all.”
The initial citation included a link that purported to send users to an article in the peer-reviewed medical journal JAMA Pediatrics, but it was broken.
Jim Michalski, a spokesman for JAMA Network, said it “was not published in JAMA Pediatrics or in any JAMA Network journal.”
Not the only error:
Columbia University epidemiologist Katherine Keyes, who was also listed as an author of the supposed JAMA study, told AFP she does research on the topic but does not know where the statistics credited to her came from, and that she “did not write that paper.”
Guohua Li, another Columbia University professor apparently named in the citation, said the reference is “totally fabricated” and that he does not even know Kreski.
AFP also spoke with Harold Farber, pediatrics professor at Baylor College of Medicine, who said the paper attributed to him “does not exist” nor had he ever collaborated with the co-authors credited in the original MAHA report.
Similarly, Brian McNeill, spokesperson for Virginia Commonwealth University, confirmed that professor Robert Findling did not author a paper the report says he wrote about advertising of psychotropic medications for youth.
A fourth paper on ADHD medication was also not published in the journal Pediatrics in 2008 as claimed, according to the journal’s publisher, the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Let’s try that again…”formatting errors?” Hard to believe that excuse could get lamer…but it did.
At her briefing, Leavitt declined to answer how the report was produced and whether artificial intelligence tools may have been used to craft it, directing those questions back to HHS.
All of the citations investigated by AFP were replaced with links to real sources in the updated version, though in one case, purported research was supplanted by an article from The New York Times. AFP
As NOTUS first reported on Thursday, several of the studies cited in the report do not exist at all, including one called “Overprescribing of Oral Corticosteroids for Children With Asthma,” which was used to argue that doctors are giving kids too much medicine. This “study” has never been referenced anywhere outside the MAHA report.
The report argued, in one case, that a 40-fold increase in bipolar disorder and ADHD diagnoses in children between 1994 to 2003 was propelled by loosened criteria in a fifth edition of a guide used by psychiatrists, per the NYT. But that fifth edition, it turns out, didn’t come out until 2013.
The Washington Post found that 37 of the paper’s 522 footnotes are inexplicably repeated multiple times. Some of the citations also include an “oaicite” appended to the URLs, which refers to OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT. This is a “definitive sign” that the research was gathered using an AI, WaPo concluded.Futurism
How nice – real sources. Kennedy also catches fire for his stance on autism:
Since taking office, he has ordered the National Institutes of Health to probe the causes of autism — a condition he has long falsely tied to the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
The report’s chronic disease references appear to nod to that same disproven theory, discredited by numerous studies since the idea first aired in a late 1990s paper based on falsified data. AFP
If you prefer to do your own take on that last, do a search for MMR “autism Lancet Wakefield” – you will find quite a bit available.
Category: Science and Technology
Hmmmmm
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9894765/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37777949/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0213616323000319
We already have hundreds of measles cases in TX with at least 2 kids dead at this time due to not getting the regular vaccines. I fully expect to see diphtheria, typhoid, and polio make a resurgence in this country if the trend of ignoring vaccines continues. We are, or have, imported the third world and all of it’s unvaccinated population into the country by the millions over the last 4 years.
Reminds the 2020 lockdown rules that applied to everyone but rioting criminals.
They weren’t ‘ social distancing ‘
It was not “rioting criminals”.
It was “Citizens exercising their rights under the first amendment, participating in “fiery but mostly peaceful” protests”.
It is appalling that children are not vaccinated. Parents must be educated. Hopefully the press will continue to front page these tragic losses of young lives.
The research and development of vaccines practically eliminated polio world wide but Pakistan refused to allow WHO access although it has the highest number of victims.
We must stop international migration without vaccination into our own country.
Ooops. You know, it’s been a real long time since I went thru “Business Communication” classes, but one thing that really stuck with me was the old quote from Sgt Joe Friday…”Just the facts, Ma’am.” If one puts out a paper, with their name on it, make sure it is true and accurate.
Now, that being said…are there too many “vaccines” being given too close together and at a too young an age? Can’t say. Everybody reacts to meds in a different manner, else there wouldn’t be page after page of “side effects” listed for each. After the Bat Flu Scamdemic, have people lost faith in the whole Big Pharm push for “treatments” over “cures”? Good chance. We eradicated /suppressed the transmission of many “childhood” diseases with vaccines that are now showing back up after being “imported” with thousands of people that have not been vaccinated for anything and have no clue on how to prevent the spread. People’s faith in the grubermint has also fallen to an all time low. Some even remember that the grubermint passed out disease infected blankets to certain communities back yonder. And Dr. Mengle was not the only doctor to perform “experiments” on folks.
My own and other people’s faith in what doctors , pharma, and orgs like the CDC say have been shaken by what they said and did during the plandemic. Needing to take seemingly neverending boosters to a vaccine? Life changing (and, in some cases, life ending) side effects of that vaccine and boosters? The science of social distancing seeming to change every week? Government figures and doctors being proven to be hypocrites when caught violating their own social distancing and quarantine protocols that they set for everyone else to follow? Any rational person would lose trust with doctors and medicine over this. But, speaking for myself, my current default is that vaccines before the plandemic can be trusted, at least to an extent.
As I have said before elsewhere, generally I am pretty much in favor of effective immunizations (not sure that Swine Flu shot I got in the ’70s counts – but viral immunizations are notoriously harder to get right.) My beef with the report is that the REPORT sounds like a 5th grader’s AI did it, not something a Cabinet Secretary wants to hang his hat on.
Another comment – at the time the Covid vaccine came out, it was widely stated that it would probably become like the flu vaccine, needing to be updated periodically for whatever the virus had mutated into. No one should have been surprised at the result. That it turned out to at best mitigate Covid…THAT we can bitch about. Them Chinese hit a home run with that virus – it’s a persistent nasty little cuss. I just worry about what they can accomplish with the knowledge they gained from Covid. Hopefully that whatever they unleash everywhere else is going to come home to roost no matter what.
The problem with the bat-flu vaccine is that it was not a vaccine by the CDC’s own definition, which is a substance made from killed or weakened virus to stimulate the body’s immune response to the disease. The MRNA clot shot is not a vaccine. They just pretend it is one.
It is a vaccination. The CDC and the left changed the definition of the word. Hocus Pocus, Presto Changeo, and voila! It is now a vaccine instead of a prophylactic medication.
Fauci admitted that they in effect pulled the six-foot social distancing figure and rule out of their asses. They guessed that three feet was not enough, but that ten or twelve feet was a bridge too far. So, they settled on six feet. How “scientific,” from the man who claimed he was “science” incarnate.
I haven’t been following any of it enough to have an arguable opinion. What I will say is that I don’t trust any Columbia University Professors, any more that I do the media outlets doing the reporting.
I don’t trust politicians either. So, there’s that too.
The man is not qualified.
I stopped using flouride toothpaste a few years ago, so last week at my dentist for my every 3 month cleaning I show her a pic of the small pump toothpaste plastic canister with my Allergy drops mixed in without flouride and she says your teeth need flouride and without it, thats why your having problems with your teeth. I went for the pump from my ENT after using Allergy drops that was in a small vial with an eye dropper and had to be refrigirated since I started back in 2017. Mold, roach and enviermental were my allergies. I went back to flouride toothpaste between the pump canister.
So that’s the whole tooth I’m telling you. The whole thing starts with flouride and children which don’t mix. Hopefully I’ll get a reply from my TAH’ers to set me straight if I was wrong.
“I Was Wrong’, was a 1950’s song which I won’t go into now. Sorry, but its a habit of mine with peoples names and all the songs you heard me mention on the site. Holy shit, I keep going and going like the battery bunny rabbit. I’m off to the recliner after this.
Glad to hear from you Jeff. Take care.
MRS D is a pediatric RN. She’s far from anti vaxx, but has consistently argued against how vaccinations are administered to infants. Giving multiple injections of multiple vaccines all at once to tiny bodies causes unnecessary pain on the child, and all those vaccines coursing through a small circulatory system just causes unnecessary stress on the tiny body. Better to spread them out, start with the most likely infection and work to the least. Seems reasonable to me.
Loose cannon on deck. At best I might regard him as a dabbler with many interests, mostly as they concern him particularly with getting laid. Nothing in his resume recommends him as well suited to anything greater than what Hunter Thompson pursued or might have pursued.
If Jr. had taken any classes in biological sciences and satisfactorily completed them, he might have more credibility, than none.
Even if half of every medical school class was in the bottom half, they have at least demonstrated some competencies with their peers, at the state and the national levels.
They are all a better option than Jr.
The most I can advance about Jr. is that he recently took issue with a CDC statement. This may be the only occasion in Jr’s lifetime when I have actually agreed with him but only because I disagree with ANTHING put forth by the CDE.
A government agency published a fraudulent report?
No shit.
Nothing to see here.
Are all of these really needed?
Looks as though getting involved with influenza turns into a lifelong commitment.
FWIW, I’ve never had the flu and have never had a vaccine for it.
Certainly tens of millions died from it before there was a vaccine. But not everyone.
Amen. Ex-wife used to get and having see what she went through it is understandable why anyone would want to avoid it. In her case, she got the vaccines and typically got the flu, anyway.
I’ve had the flu, but decline any offer for getting a shot for “preventing” it. I’ve been fortunate I guess in that it seems to run its course in a couple of days.
Have to get the vaccine because the Army says so. Get sick EVERY time I get the vaccine. “They” say that you must of had a touch of it when you got the shot.
Every damn time??
I get the shot, run a fever and feel like hammered out dog $h17 that night and the next day.
It couldn’t be that a virus introduced into my system, right?