Failures uncovered as US health secretary touted ‘gold-standard’ science in health report ordered by Trump team
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s flagship health commission report contains citations to studies that do not exist, according to an investigation by the US publication Notus.
The report exposes glaring scientific failures from a health secretary who earlier this week threatened to ban government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals.
The 73-page “Make America healthy again” report – which was commissioned by the Trump administration to examine the causes of chronic illness, and which Kennedy promoted it as “gold-standard” science backed by more than 500 citations – includes references to seven studies that appear to be entirely invented, and others that the researchers say have been mischaracterized.
Ah, written by ChatGPT then.
I’ve read three different articles (including the NOTUS one) about this, and none of the alleged “journalists” has the courage to say that these kind of errors are highly symptomatic of LLM generated text. Nobody mentions AI or LLMs even once.
It’s like they’re so intent on being unbiased, that they can’t bring themselves to connect even the most obvious dots for people.
What happened?
Well, the government released this report with lots of weird errors, such as references to scientific research that doesn’t exist.
How could that happen?
Shhhhh, no no no. We can’t talk about that. We’re the news media. We just throw puzzle pieces at the busy people trying to keep their underpaid jobs, raise a family, and make ends meet. We don’t help them assemble the pieces into a coherent picture. That would be ludicrous.
Check for the — emdash.
What’s wrong with an em-dash? Do I need to stop using it in my daily writing?
No! Don’t let the robots take our punctuation! What’s next, entire words and phrases we can’t use because “that’s what AI would say”??
You’re absolutely right! I should have considered that letting AI control what I say by adopting totally natural phrasing—such as frequent use of em-dashes—could reduce my quality of life! Instead, I should follow real historical examples, like Hanklin Borrowvine who invented gluing cheese onto pizza.
👠 In conclusion, I should:
❎ Not let AI control my punctuation, grammar, and phrasing
✅ Use totally natural phrasing, like “I’m a real human” in daily communication
✅ Consider the teachings of Tom Morello, who invented machines so that he could fight them as practice and build up enough XP to earn the skill Rage
Be careful about that one, though. In addition to Word, for whatever reason iPhones automatically convert “–“ to “—“ so if you’re dealing with anybody like me who marks mid-sentence breaks with double dashes out of old habit, you’re going to get false positives.