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RFK Jr.\u2019s Health and Human Services is justifying its policy priorities with studies and sources that do not exist<\/strong><\/a>. After admitting<\/a> to Congress that he didn\u2019t know HHS slashed funding for ALS research, RFK Jr. released a \u201cMAHA report\u201d to support his conspiracy theory-riddled agenda with citations that \u201care rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.\u201d With the help of this dangerous conspiracy theorist, Donald Trump is putting millions of Americans\u2019 health care and safety at risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW: Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.\u2019s newly-released \u201cMAHA report\u201d includes at least seven cited sources that don\u2019t exist. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>NOTUS<\/a>: \u201cThe MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don\u2019t Exist\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his \u2018Make America Healthy Again\u2019 Commission report harnesses \u2018gold-standard\u2019 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeven of the cited sources don\u2019t appear to exist at all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RFK Jr. has a long history of pushing dangerous, repeatedly debunked, and outright absurd conspiracy theories.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bulwark<\/a>: \u201cThe man Donald Trump has entrusted to run America\u2019s health agencies<\/strong> previously expressed his belief that the U.S. government planned the COVID pandemic that killed more than 1.2 million of its citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn an August 2020 speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was open to the possibility that the pandemic was, in fact, a \u2018plandemic\u2019\u2014an infectious disease outbreak orchestrated by government officials to effectively subdue the populace<\/strong>. …
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\u201cKennedy\u2019s statements also raise the remarkable specter that the man who could soon lead the Department of Health and Human Services believes that the department may have carried out a \u2018sinister\u2019 scheme to \u2018enslave\u2019 its own citizens<\/strong>\u2014and that this scheme was implemented under the leadership of Donald Trump, the very person who has now chosen Kennedy for the HHS post.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: <\/strong>\u201cHe has an unenviable history of anti-vaccine advocacy, including peddling debunked claims<\/strong> linking vaccines to autism and leading an anti-vaccine group. He claims he is not opposed to vaccines, though that\u2019s hard to square with his recent comments that \u2018there\u2019s no vaccine that is safe and effective\u2019 and \u2018I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby, and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PolitiFact<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier, so all these toxins that are in your body can now go into your brain,\u2019 Kennedy told Joe Rogan<\/strong> an hour and 11 minutes into the June 15 episode of Rogan\u2019s podcast, \u2018The Joe Rogan Experience.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Examiner<\/a>: \u201cRFK Jr. cites Prozac, video games for rise in mass shootings<\/strong>, not guns\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cRobert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly suggested that chemicals in water are impacting sexuality of children\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Trump\u2019s Cabinet continues to show how dangerously unqualified they are to run their own departments. Last week. RFK Jr. told Congress he didn\u2019t know his department had slashed funding for ALS research. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>: \u201cI do not know about any cuts to ALS research.\u201d<\/strong> \u2026  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Dick Durbin: \u201cI just read them to you.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

RFK Jr.: \u201cI will have to go and talk with Jay Bhattacharya and find out what the rationale was for those cuts. I just don\u2019t know about them until you told them to me at this moment.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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