Fri May 30 07:32:54 UTC 2025: **White House Downplays Citation Errors in Controversial Children’s Health Report**
**WASHINGTON D.C.** – The White House is facing scrutiny after a flagship report on children’s health, published by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, was found to contain non-existent studies and broken links. The report, released last week, investigates potential links between processed food, chemicals, stress, and over-prescription of medications and vaccines to chronic illnesses in children, citing over 500 studies.
Digital news outlet NOTUS first reported the discrepancies, revealing that seven cited studies did not exist, links were broken, and conclusions were misstated. One researcher, Noah Kreski from Columbia University, confirmed to AFP that a study attributed to him on adolescent anxiety and depression during COVID-19 was not one of his, and did not appear to exist.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the concerns as “formatting issues” that do “not negate the substance of the report,” which she hailed as “one of the most transformative health reports that has ever been released by the federal government.” The government has pledged to update the report.
The Department of Health and Human Services echoed the sentiment, stating that “The substance of the MAHA report remains the same – a historic and transformative assessment by the federal government to understand the chronic disease epidemic afflicting our nation’s children.”
However, the controversy surrounding the report also reignites concerns over President Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary. Kennedy’s history of questioning vaccine safety has made him a target for critics, who point to his approval as having eroded confidence in his leadership.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) criticized the report as “rife with misinformation,” accusing Kennedy’s agency of using fabricated studies to justify policy.
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