RFK Jr.’s Health and Human Services is justifying its policy priorities with studies and sources that do not exist. After admitting to Congress that he didn’t know HHS slashed funding for ALS research, RFK Jr. released a “MAHA report” to support his conspiracy theory-riddled agenda with citations that “are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.” With the help of this dangerous conspiracy theorist, Donald Trump is putting millions of Americans’ health care and safety at risk. 

NEW: Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.’s newly-released “MAHA report” includes at least seven cited sources that don’t exist. 

NOTUS: “The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist”

“Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Commission report harnesses ‘gold-standard’ 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.

“Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.”

RFK Jr. has a long history of pushing dangerous, repeatedly debunked, and outright absurd conspiracy theories.

The Bulwark: “The man Donald Trump has entrusted to run America’s health agencies previously expressed his belief that the U.S. government planned the COVID pandemic that killed more than 1.2 million of its citizens.

“In an August 2020 speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was open to the possibility that the pandemic was, in fact, a ‘plandemic’—an infectious disease outbreak orchestrated by government officials to effectively subdue the populace. …

“Kennedy’s 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 ‘sinister’ scheme to ‘enslave’ its own citizens—and that this scheme was implemented under the leadership of Donald Trump, the very person who has now chosen Kennedy for the HHS post.” 

Washington Post: “He has an unenviable history of anti-vaccine advocacy, including peddling debunked claims linking vaccines to autism and leading an anti-vaccine group. He claims he is not opposed to vaccines, though that’s hard to square with his recent comments that ‘there’s no vaccine that is safe and effective’ and ‘I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby, and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated.’” 

PolitiFact: “‘Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier, so all these toxins that are in your body can now go into your brain,’ Kennedy told Joe Rogan an hour and 11 minutes into the June 15 episode of Rogan’s podcast, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience.’”

Washington Examiner: “RFK Jr. cites Prozac, video games for rise in mass shootings, not guns”

CNN: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly suggested that chemicals in water are impacting sexuality of children”

REMINDER: Trump’s Cabinet continues to show how dangerously unqualified they are to run their own departments. Last week. RFK Jr. told Congress he didn’t know his department had slashed funding for ALS research. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I do not know about any cuts to ALS research.” …  

Senator Dick Durbin: “I just read them to you.” 

RFK Jr.: “I will have to go and talk with Jay Bhattacharya and find out what the rationale was for those cuts. I just don’t know about them until you told them to me at this moment.” 

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