Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he didn’t personally fact-check the MAHA Commission Assessment and called the report’s fabricated citations “wrong” and a “mistake” during a heated exchange with Democratic Rep. Raul Ruiz in a Tuesday committee hearing.
The White House commission report — which Kennedy touted as “gold-standard” science — drew widespread criticism after NOTUS first reported that seven of the cited sources did not exist, and that the report misinterpreted studies on public health interventions like vaccines.
During his appearance Tuesday before a subcommittee in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Kennedy insisted that “all of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate,” and brushed off the impact of the fabricated citations, saying that “some of the citations were messed up for one day” before being corrected.