White House MAHA report cited ‘invented studies’: analysis
A White House report warning of a national health crisis is drawing fresh scrutiny after a Washington Post analysis revealed signs of not only artificial intelligence but also the apparent use of “invented studies” in the report’s citations.
The “Make America Health Again” report, released this week by the Trump administration, claims to highlight the causes of declining life expectancy among Americans. But the Post reviewed more than 500 citations and found several that appeared to be invented, with AI experts confirming “the use of artificial intelligence in the initial version of the report provided to journalists.”
According to the Post, the MAHA report cited academic studies that don’t exist, referenced “garbled citations,” and used phrases consistent with AI-generated text.
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“Trump administration officials have been repeatedly revising and updating the report since Thursday as news outlets, beginning with NOTUS, have highlighted the discrepancies and evidence of nonexistent research,” the Post reported Friday.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, Andrew Nixon, downplayed the issue, which he called “minor citation and formatting errors,” which he said “have been corrected."
“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,” he said, according to the Post.