Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist, according to an investigation by the US publication Notus.
The report exposes glaring scientific failures from a health secretary who earlier this week threatened to ban government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals.
The 73-page “Make America healthy again” report – which was commissioned by the Trump administration to examine the causes of chronic illness, and which Kennedy promoted it as “gold-standard” science backed by more than 500 citations – includes references to seven studies that appear to be entirely invented, and others that the researchers say have been mischaracterized.
Generally in academia, this is referred to as fraud.
Publication fraud, misconduct, etc.
Tends to get you blacklisted from publishing, from research, career ending stuff.
So uh… yep, who would have guessed the administration led by a convicted criminal fraudster would do more fraud, how shocking.
Sure would be neat if some consequences actually occured for this, but uh nah looks more like we’re just going full corpotheofascist… I would say we had a good run, but it was mostly bad, so I won’t say that.