US government report cited non-existent sources, academics say

An US government report on child health mentioned “fully manufactured” studies to support its findings, academics who are wrongly mentioned as the authors of those studies have said.

For the first time released on May 22, the report detailed causes of a “chronic disease crisis” in children in the US. A changed version was published on 29 May after Digital Outlet Notus discovered that it had used seven non-existent sources.

White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that there were “formatting issues” and the report would be updated, but it did not destroy the content of the report “.

The American health secretary Robert F Kennedy JR, who has promoted the rape that causes vaccines to cause autism, leads the department behind the report.

It comes on the back of one of the US President Donald Trump’s radical orders of the executive earlier this year, in particular “to” study the scope of the chronic disease crisis in children and possible possible contributing causes “.

Published by the Make America Healthy Again CommissionThe report concluded that poor diet, environmental oxins, stress, insufficient physical activity and “reflection” can contribute to chronic diseases in American children.

But the authors of various studies mentioned in the report told news shops that they did not write them and that the studies never existed.

Guohua Li, a professor at Columbia University who was mentioned as an author of a report on the mental health of children in the pandemic, said Agence France-Presse that the reference was “fully manufactured” and that he does not even know the co-author mentioned.

He was mentioned as an author besides Noah Kreski, a researcher at Columbia University, who also denied it to write and told AFP that it “does not seem to be a study that exists at all.”

Katherine Keyes, a professor of epidemiology that news agency Reuters said that she was also wrongly mentioned as an author, said: “It makes me worried, since citation practices are an important part of performing and reporting rigorous science.”

Another study cited about the advertising of Psychotrope medicines for young people was not written by the listed author, the university who employs him, AFP and Reuters said.

The Democratic National Committee Accused RFK JR.’s Department of Health and Human Services of “justifying its policy priorities with sources that do not exist” and the use of quotes that “are full of errors, from broken links to incorrect conclusions”.

RFK JR was sworn in as an American health secretary in February. He has had that since he took office Cut thousands of jobs into the Health department and plans made to introduce Placebo tests for all new vaccines.