, Columnist
The MAHA Report’s Errors Are Just the Start of Its Problems
The misleading interpretations of the science and made-up research will hurt US children.
Their agenda won’t improve kids’ health.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new Make America Healthy Again report offers a road to wellness for the nation’s children paved not with the gold-standard science he promised, but with pyrite.
The report, created by a MAHA commission that includes all of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members, mixes nuggets of truth— like the idea that it’s important to focus on kids’ health — with gross misrepresentations of scientific research. Some of the studies are even made up.