White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again' report

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks arsenic Education Secretary Linda McMahon listens during a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in nan East Room of nan White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, successful Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption

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WASHINGTON — The White House will 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 nan news statement NOTUS recovered that immoderate of those studies did not really exist.

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

"I understand location was immoderate formatting issues pinch nan MAHA study that are being addressed and nan study will beryllium updated." Leavitt told reporters during her briefing. "But it does not negate nan constituent of nan report, which, arsenic you know, is 1 of nan astir transformative wellness reports that has ever been released by nan national government.

Kennedy has many times said he would bring "radical transparency" and "gold-standard" subject to nan nationalist wellness agencies. But nan caput refused to merchandise specifications astir who authored nan 72-page report, which calls for accrued scrutiny of nan puerility vaccine schedule and describes nan nation's children arsenic overmedicated and undernourished.

Leavitt said that nan 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 nan study arsenic a "historic and transformative appraisal by nan national authorities to understand nan chronic illness pandemic afflicting our nation's children."

NOTUS reported Thursday that 7 of nan much than 500 studies cited successful nan study did not look to person ever been published. An writer of 1 study confirmed that while she conducted investigation connected nan topics of worry successful children, she ne'er authored nan study listed. Some studies were besides misinterpreted successful nan 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 really nan study characterized nan chemicals sprayed connected U.S. crops.

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