Certain studies within the Trump administration Report “MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN” It does not exist as cited, ABC News has confirmed.
Dr. Katherine Keyes, a researcher cited in the report as the first author of a document about the depression and anxiety rates among adolescents during the pandemic, confirmed to ABC News that she did not write an article cited in the report that the White House Commission for America to feel healthy is headed again by the Human Health and Services Commission, Robert F. Kenned Jr. last week.
“I was surprised to see what seems to be an error in the appointment of my work in the report, and I am concerned that appointment practices are an important part of performing and informing a rigorous science,” Keyes wrote to ABC News in an email.
Keyes is cited in an article entitled “Changes in mental health and the use of substances among American adolescents during the Covid-19 Pandemia”, which appears on page 52 of the Maha report and lists Jama Pediatrics such as the magazine. A Journal representative confirmed to ABC News the newspaper does not exist.
Keyes said she has investigated the subject cited in the Maha report, but that she and her listed co -authors did not write the aforementioned document. “I would be happy to send this information to the Maha Committee to correct the report, although I have not yet received information about where to get to them,” he said.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks as Secretary of Education Linda McMahon listening during a Make America Healthy Again commission event in the White House in Washington, on May 22, 2025.
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At least two research magazines, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the JAMA Network, have also confirmed ABC News that they could not find certain documents within the Maha report in their publications despite being summoned as such.
The news appeared for the first time With known.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told journalists on Thursday that errors were due to “format problems” and that they were being corrected and that “the report will be updated.”
She said the appointment problems “denied the substance of the report.”
Leavitt added that the administration had “full confidence in Secretary Kennedy and his team in the HHS.”
President Donald Trump, Health speaks with Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during an event of Make America Healthy Again commission, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on May 22, 2025.
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Calley means, a main advisor to Kennedy, who was instrumental in the coordination of the report, defended it, saying that the “underlying data and conclusions are correct” and that “any format error has been corrected.”
An updated version eliminated the mention of at least some reports that did not exist, replacing them with other sources. The new version also seemed to soften a language to accommodate quotations changes.
For example, a section on direct ads to the consumer initially said that the ads “led parents to overestimate the prevalence of ADHD and request drugs with ADHD inappropriately.” The updated version states that ads “potentially” have that impact.
“Minor citation and format errors have been corrected, but the substance of Maha’s report remains the same: a historical and transformative evaluation by the federal government to understand the epidemic of chronic diseases that affects the children of our nation. According to President Trump and Secretary Kennedy, our federal government is no longer ignoring this crisis and its time for the media to also focus on what matters,” He is ignoring this crisis, and it is the time of the media.
All this occurs when Kennedy has said that he plans to lead federal researchers to stop publishing his work in independent magazines reviewed by peers and, on the other hand, asked the National Health Institutes to develop their own research magazines.
“We are probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Jama and those other magazines because they are all corrupt,” Kenned He said in the podcast “Ultimate Human” earlier this week.
Maha’s report, led by Kennedy, has more than 500 appointments listed, mainly of studies published in independent magazines reviewed by peers. Jama’s studies, a first -level magazine published by the American Medical Association, were summoned 30 times in the report.
It is a standard practice in peer reviewed research so that the authors use quotes when referring to the science of another source. It also provides a road map to the research process is often used to justify or support the need for research.
Studies in pairs reviewed generally use a doi or an identifier of digital objects, to uniquely identify a document that provides a permanent web address.
Some of the documents listed in the Maha Report, including the non -existent study with Dr. Keyes listed, result in a doi error not found.