特朗普政府内部的某些研究“让美国再次健康”报告美国广播公司新闻已经证实，不存在引用。
凯瑟琳·凯斯博士是报告中引用的一篇关于疫情期间青少年抑郁和焦虑率的论文的第一作者，她向美国广播公司新闻证实，她没有写报告中引用的论文由卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪领导的白宫“让美国再次健康”委员会于上周成立。
凯斯在给美国广播公司新闻频道的一封电子邮件中写道:“我很惊讶地看到，报告中引用我的工作似乎是一个错误，这确实让我感到担忧，因为引用实践是开展和报道严谨科学的重要组成部分。”。
Keyes在一篇题为“新冠肺炎疫情期间美国青少年心理健康和药物使用的变化”的论文中被引用，该论文出现在MAHA报告的第52页，并将JAMA Pediatrics列为期刊。《华尔街日报》的一名代表向美国广播公司证实，该报不存在。
Keyes指出，她对MAHA报告中引用的主题进行了研究，但她和她的合著者没有撰写引用的论文。“我很乐意将这一信息发送给MAHA委员会，以纠正该报告，尽管我还没有收到关于在哪里与他们联系的信息，”她指出。
至少有两家研究期刊----美国儿科学会和美国医学协会的期刊之一JAMA Pediatrics ----也向ABC News证实，尽管被引用，但他们无法在出版物中找到MAHA报告中的某些论文。
这条新闻首次出现在NOTUS.
白宫新闻秘书卡罗林·莱维特星期四对记者说，这些错误是由于“格式问题”，他们正在被纠正，“报告将被更新”
她说引用问题没有“否定报告的实质”
莱维特补充说，政府“完全信任肯尼迪部长和他在HHS的团队”
肯尼迪的高级顾问Calley Means在协调该报告方面发挥了重要作用，他为该报告进行了辩护，称“基本数据和结论是正确的”，“任何格式错误都已得到纠正。”
最新版本确实删除了至少一些不存在的报告，代之以其他来源。新版本似乎也软化了一些语言，以适应引文的变化。
例如，一个关于直接面向消费者的广告的部分最初声称，广告“导致父母高估了多动症的患病率，并不恰当地要求多动症药物。”最新版本声称广告“潜在地”有这种影响。
“小的引用和格式错误已被更正，但MAHA报告的实质内容仍然不变——这是联邦政府为了解折磨我们国家儿童的慢性疾病流行病而做出的历史性和变革性的评估。HHS发言人Andrew Nixon在一份声明中说:“在Trump总统和Kennedy部长的领导下，我们的联邦政府不再忽视这场危机，是时候让媒体也关注重要的事情了。”。
所有这一切都发生在肯尼迪表示他计划指导联邦研究人员停止在独立的同行评审期刊上发表他们的工作，而是呼吁国家卫生研究院开发自己的研究期刊。
“我们可能会停止在《柳叶刀》、《新英格兰医学杂志》、《美国医学会杂志》和其他杂志上发表文章，因为它们都是腐败的，”肯内德说本周早些时候在“终极人类”播客中说道。
由肯尼迪领导的MAHA报告列出了500多篇引文，大部分来自发表在同行评议的独立期刊上的研究。来自美国医学协会出版的顶级杂志《美国医学会杂志》的研究在报告中被引用了30次。
在同行评议研究中，作者引用其他来源的科学时使用引文是标准做法。它还提供了研究过程的路线图，通常用于证明或支持研究的必要性。
同行评议期刊中的研究通常使用DOI，或数字对象标识符，来唯一地识别为其提供永久网址的论文。
MAHA报告中列出的一些论文，包括列出了Keyes博士的不存在的研究，导致了DOI not found错误。
RFK Jr.'s MAHA report cited nonexistent studies
Certain studies within the Trump administration's"Make America Healthy Again" reportdo not exist as cited, ABC News has confirmed.
Dr. Katherine Keyes, a researcher cited in the report as a first author of a paper on rates of depression and anxiety among teens during the pandemic, confirmed to ABC News that she did not write a paper cited in the report thatthe White House's Make America Healthy Again Commission headed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled last week.
"I was surprised to see what seems to be an error in the citation of my work in the report, and it does make me concerned given that citation practices are an important part of conducting and reporting rigorous science," Keyes wrote to ABC News in an email.
Keyes is cited in a paper titled "Changes in mental health and substance use among US adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic," which appears on page 52 of the MAHA report and lists JAMA Pediatrics as the journal. A representative for the journal confirmed to ABC News the paper does not exist.
Keyes noted she has done research on the topic cited in the MAHA report, but that she and her listed co-authors did not write the paper cited. "I would be happy to send this information to the MAHA committee to correct the report, although I have not yet received information on where to reach them," she noted.
At least two research journals -- the American Academy of Pediatrics and the JAMA Pediatrics, one of the journals of the American Medical Association -- have also confirmed to ABC News that they were not able to find certain papers within the MAHA report in their publications despite being cited as such.
The news first appearedin NOTUS.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that the mistakes were due to "formatting issues," and that they were being corrected and "the report will be updated."
She said the citation issues did not "negate the substance of the report."
Leavitt added the administration had "complete confidence in Secretary Kennedy and his team at HHS."
Calley Means, a senior adviser to Kennedy who was instrumental in coordinating the report, defended it, saying the "underlying data and conclusions are correct" and that "any formatting errors have been corrected."
An updated version did remove mention of at least some reports that did not exist, replacing them with other sources. The new version also appeared to soften some language to accommodate the citation changes.
For instance, a section about direct-to-consumer advertisements initially claimed the ads "led parents to overestimate ADHD prevalence and to request ADHD drugs inappropriately." The updated version claims that the ads "potentially" have that impact.
"Minor citation and formatting errors have been corrected, but 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. Under President Trump and Secretary Kennedy, our federal government is no longer ignoring this crisis, and it's time for the media to also focus on what matters," HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said in a statement.
All this comes as Kennedy has said he plans to direct federal researchers to stop publishing their work in independent, peer-reviewed journals and instead called on the National Institutes of Health to develop its own research journals.
"We're probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and those other journals because they're all corrupt," Kennedsaid on the "Ultimate Human" podcast earlier this week.
The MAHA report, led by Kennedy, has more than 500 citations listed, mostly from studies published in peer-reviewed, independent journals. Studies from JAMA, a top-tier journal published by the American Medical Association, were cited 30 times in the report.
It is standard practice in peer-reviewed research for authors to use citations when referencing science from another source. It also provides a roadmap to the research process and is often used to justify or back up the necessity of research.
Studies in peer-reviewed journals typically use a DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, to uniquely identify a paper that provides it with a permanent web address.
Some of the papers listed in the MAHA report, including the nonexistent study with Dr. Keyes listed, result in a DOI not found error.
