Overview

• The White House released an updated MAHA report on May 30 correcting seven nonexistent citations and other footnote errors originally flagged by NOTUS.
• HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said these were minor citation and formatting fixes and did not alter the commission’s recommendations on diet, environmental toxins, medication overprescription and sedentary lifestyles.
• Researchers such as Columbia epidemiologist Katherine Keyes and psychiatry chair Robert Findling confirmed they did not author the papers attributed to them in the initial report.
• The Cato Institute and other experts criticized the MAHA findings for misrepresenting data and lacking peer-reviewed evidence to support its broad claims.
• Retraction Watch’s Dr. Ivan Oransky and other observers noted patterns suggesting possible AI-generated “hallucinations” in the report’s footnotes.