{"id":28684,"date":"2025-05-29T21:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28684"},"modified":"2025-05-29T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:28:42","slug":"white-house-health-report-included-fake-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28684","title":{"rendered":"White House Health Report Included Fake Citations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A report on children\u2019s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a \u201cclear, evidence-based foundation\u201d for action on a range of children\u2019s health issues.<\/p>\n

But the report<\/a>, from the presidential Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. These included fictitious studies on direct-to-consumer drug advertising, mental illness and medications prescribed for children with asthma.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me concerned about the rigor of the report, if these really basic citation practices aren\u2019t being followed,\u201d said Katherine Keyes, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University who was listed as the author of a paper on mental health and substance use among adolescents. Dr. Keyes has not written any paper by the title the report cited, nor does one seem to exist by any author.<\/p>\n

The news outlet NOTUS first reported<\/a> the presence of false citations, and The New York Times identified additional faulty references. By midafternoon on Thursday, the White House had uploaded a new copy of the report with corrections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Ivan Oransky \u2014 who teaches medical journalism at New York University and is a co-founder of Retraction Watch, a website that tracks retractions of scientific research \u2014 said the errors in the report were characteristic of the use of generative artificial intelligence, which has led to similar issues in legal<\/a> filings<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n

Dr. Oransky said that while he did not know whether the government had used A.I. in producing the report or the citations, \u201cwe\u2019ve seen this particular movie before, and it\u2019s unfortunately much more common in scientific literature than people would like or than really it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A report on children\u2019s health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist.The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a \u201cclear, evidence-based foundation\u201d for action on a range of children\u2019s health issues.But the report, from the presidential Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. These included fictitious studies on direct-to-consumer drug advertising, mental illness and medications prescribed for children with asthma.\u201cIt makes me concerned about the rigor of the report, if these really basic citation practices aren\u2019t being followed,\u201d said Katherine Keyes, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University who was listed as the author of a paper on mental health and substance use among adolescents. Dr. Keyes has not written any paper by the title the report cited, nor does one seem to exist by any author.The news outlet NOTUS first reported the presence of false citations, and The New York Times identified additional faulty references. By midafternoon on Thursday, the White House had uploaded a new copy of the report with corrections.Dr. Ivan Oransky \u2014 who teaches medical journalism at New York University and is a co-founder of Retraction Watch, a website that tracks retractions of scientific research \u2014 said the errors in the report were characteristic of the use of generative artificial intelligence, which has led to similar issues in legal filings and more.Dr. Oransky said that while he did not know whether the government had used A.I. in producing the report or the citations, \u201cwe\u2019ve seen this particular movie before, and it\u2019s unfortunately much more common in scientific literature than people would like or than really it should be.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28686,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28687,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28684\/revisions\/28687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}