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Fwd: NOTUS Exclusive: The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
THERESA DEFINO
(29 May 2025 11:23 EST)
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RE: [RESADM-L] Fwd: NOTUS Exclusive: The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist Walker, Katie (29 May 2025 11:31 EST)
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RE: [RESADM-L] Fwd: NOTUS Exclusive: The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
Cao, Susan
(29 May 2025 11:40 EST)
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Given some experiences I've heard second-hand, I wouldn't be surprised if the problem originated with an AI "lit review". It's not just students who are getting caught out by the fact that AI always needs fact-checking, every single time. Katie Walker | Director, Finance & Administration | Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Boston University | Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences xxxxxx@bu.edu | cpr.bu.edu | 940 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 -----Original Message----- From: THERESA DEFINO - tdefino at aol.com (via resadm-l list) <xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2025 12:22 PM To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org Subject: [RESADM-L] Fwd: NOTUS Exclusive: The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist Worth a read. Begin forwarded message: From: NOTUS <xxxxxx@notus.org> Date: May 29, 2025 at 12:07:12 PM EDT To: xxxxxx@aol.com Subject: NOTUS Exclusive: The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist Reply-To: NOTUS <xxxxxx@notus.org> NOTUS reporters and AJI fellows Emily Kennard and Margaret Manto are out with a blockbuster story this morning on the “Make America Healthy Again” ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ <https://notus.us14.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=8af29b66fac80850b522eaf21&id=d3c9788948&e=2524f474b8> <https://notus.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8af29b66fac80850b522eaf21&id=c1c3f7a7e5&e=2524f474b8> <https://mcusercontent.com/8af29b66fac80850b522eaf21/images/8e58e374-6774-fc2a-d98c-ac56ae72fdbc.png> Thursday, May 29, 2025 12:00 PM NOTUS reporters and AJI fellows Emily Kennard and Margaret Manto are out with a blockbuster story <https://notus.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8af29b66fac80850b522eaf21&id=92a1e1f132&e=2524f474b8> today on the “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report. They found a raft of citation errors, including links to studies that don’t appear to exist at all. We talked to Emily and Margaret about how it came together. How did you get the idea to look through citations in the first place? Margaret Manto: I got a tip over the weekend that there was some fishy stuff in the MAHA report citations. I started checking that they were real but figured out pretty quickly that I’d have to look at all 522 citations to know for sure. 522 citations! How long did it take, and what did you find? Margaret: Emily and I took about five days to go through all of the citations. Emily Kennard: We didn't have full access to every article, so we were mostly confirming that the bibliographic information was correct. But we pretty quickly found a handful of articles that we couldn't find anywhere through search engines or in the listed journals, so we decided to go through and check each one. It took a few full workdays to pore over a spreadsheet and to reach out to cited researchers. How did researchers respond? Have you heard from HHS or MAHA world? Emily: Researchers are usually excited to have their work cited, but the ones we reached out to were surprised — probably because a few of them hadn’t actually done the research that the report cited them for. Margaret: HHS hasn’t gotten back to our request for comment yet. <https://mcusercontent.com/8af29b66fac80850b522eaf21/images/181df7a4-4876-567d-b0ee-1b27a26fa0da.jpg> Jacquelyn Martin/AP The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions. Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all. Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed in the MAHA report as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents. When NOTUS reached out to her this week, she was surprised to hear of the citation. She does study mental health and substance use, she said. But she didn’t write the paper listed. “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Keyes told NOTUS via email. Read the full story <https://notus.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8af29b66fac80850b522eaf21&id=23e7cbef46&e=2524f474b8> . Thank you for reading! If you like this Q&A with our reporters, we’d love to hear your thoughts at xxxxxx@notus.org <mailto:xxxxxx@notus.org?subject=Re%3A%20Q%26A&body=null> . If this newsletter was shared with you, please subscribe <https://notus.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8af29b66fac80850b522eaf21&id=a2c48bbe11&e=2524f474b8> (it’s free!). Like what you’re reading? 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