The latest Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again”. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” report cites fabricated studies and draws the wrong conclusions. The secretary of health and human services brags that the report, released last week, is based on “gold-standard” science drawn from over 500 studies and other sources. But in reality, NOTUS found, its citations are error-ridden, with missing links, incorrect conclusions, and sometimes even made-up studies. In one case, the supposed author of a study on anxiety in adolescents, epidemiologist Katherine Keyes, was surprised to find she was cited in the report for a paper she didn’t even write. “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Keyes told the publication in an email. “We’ve certainly done research on this topic, but did not publish a paper in JAMA Pediatrics on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title.” In fact, the study in question—“Changes in mental health and substance abuse among US adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic”—may not have been written by anyone. The link to it in the report doesn’t work, and the citation claims that it appeared in the twelfth issue of the 176th edition of the journal JAMA Pediatrics, which doesn’t contain a study with that title. That isn’t the only study cited by the MAHA report that doesn’t seem to exist (…) In other parts of the MAHA report, conclusions are drawn from papers that don’t even touch on the topics or methods Kennedy’s report cites, and other researchers cited in the report claim their studies were mischaracterized. Kennedy doesn’t seem to be aware of the issues in the report, extolling how great it is on social media. “Never in American history has the federal government taken a position on public health like this,” Kennedy said, according to a White House post on X. Kennedy has a long history of pushing medical misinformation. A well-known anti-vaccine activist, his tenure as HHS secretary has been marked by questionable decisions and statements. Kennedy has stopped the department from recommending Covid vaccines for children and pregnant women, claimed that the measles vaccine contains aborted fetuses, and pushed for fluoride to be removed from state water supplies, among many other misguided decisions.
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siehe auch: RFK Jr.‘s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report seems riddled with AI slop. Dozens of erroneous citations carry chatbot markers, and some sources simply don’t exist. There are some questionable sources underpinning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s controversial “Make America Healthy Again” commission report. Signs point to AI tomfoolery, and the use of ChatGPT specifically, which calls into question the veracity of the White House report meant to address reasons for the decline in US life expectancy. An investigation by NOTUS found dozens of errors in the MAHA report, including broken links, wrong issue numbers, and missing or incorrect authors. Some studies were misstated to back up the report’s conclusions, or more damningly, didn’t exist at all. At least seven of the cited sources were entirely fictitious, according to NOTUS. Another investigation by The Washington Post found that at least 37 of the 522 citations appeared multiple times throughout the report. Notably, the URLs of several references included “oaicite,” a marker that OpenAI applies to responses provided by artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT, which strongly suggests its use to develop the report Generative AI tools have a tendency to spit out false or incorrect information, known as “hallucinations.” That would certainly explain the various errors throughout the report — chatbots have been found responsible for similar citation issues in legal filings submitted by AI experts and even the companies building the models. Nevertheless, RFK Jr has long advocated for the “AI Revolution,” and announced during a House Committee meeting in May that “we are already using these new technologies to manage health care data more efficiently and securely.”; US-Regierung zitiert nicht existierende Studien Laut Medienrecherchen wurden in einem Bericht zu Gesundheitsproblemen von Kindern erfundene Quellen zitiert. Die Reaktion: Es handle sich um “kleinere Zitations- und Formatierungsfehler” Dass der US-amerikanische Präsident Donald Trump wissenschaftlich korrekten Fakten einen bescheidenen Stellenwert beimisst, hat er nicht nur in diesem Jahr zahllose Male unter Beweis gestellt. Auch die von ihm ernannten Regierungsmitglieder ließen in dieser Hinsicht Zweifel aufkommen, die für die Bevölkerung gesundheitliche Folgen nach sich ziehen dürften. Nun legte die Regierung offenbar nach: Medienrecherchen zufolge zitierte sie in einem offiziellen Bericht Quellen, die gar nicht existieren. Das US-Onlinemagazin Notus fand in dem jüngst veröffentlichten “Make Our Children Healthy Again”-Bericht (MAHA-Bericht) des Weißen Hauses zu Gesundheitsproblemen von Kindern sieben zitierte Quellen, die nicht auffindbar sein sollen. Das Weiße Haus sieht lediglich “kleinere Zitations- und Formatierungsfehler”. “Bei weiteren etwa 20 Quellen wurden die Inhalte aus dem Kontext gerissen oder die Ergebnisse falsch dargestellt”, sagte Margaret Manto, eine der für die Recherche verantwortlichen Journalistinnen, dem Spiegel. Darüber hinaus ließen sich viele Zitierfehler, nicht funktionierende Links sowie inhaltliche Fehlinterpretationen von Studienergebnissen nachweisen. Die New York Times stieg ebenfalls in die Recherche ein und fand weitere Ungereimtheiten.
