White House acknowledges problems in RFK Jr.'s MAHA report (apnews.com)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which decried America’s food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs.

Kennedy’s wide-ranging “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not actually exist.

Asked about the report’s problems, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report will be updated.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In my world policy decisions are built in facts. The references are part of the process by which you build confidence in the policy direction by showing the information on which the policy is based. If those references turn out to be faulty then the policy rationale falls apart.

But we are in the era of vibe governance and they don't care about facts. They will "fix" the document by selecting a new set of facts that matches the desired outcome. We used to refer to it as "decision based evidence making".

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They will “fix” the document by selecting a new set of facts that matches the desired outcome.

Agreed. That's what happens when a cretin like RFK doesn't have an intelligent person to pay to do his homework.

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