The Trump administration published last week a report that he presented a “clear and based base” for action on a range of children’s health problems.
But the reportFrom the presidential commission Make America Healthy Again, the studies cited that did not exist. These included fictitious studies on direct drug advertising to consumers, mental illness and drugs prescribed to asthmatic children.
“It concerns me with the rigor of the report, if these truly basic quotation practices are not followed,” said Katherine Keyes, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University who was listed as the author of an article on mental health and consumption of substances in adolescents. Dr. Keyes has not written any document by the title cited by the report, and we do not seem to exist by any author.
The media Notus first pointed out The presence of false quotes and the New York Times have identified additional defective references. Thursday, the White House had downloaded a new copy of the relationship with corrections.
Dr. Ivan Oransky – who teaches medical journalism at New York University and is co -founder of Watch retraction, a website that follows scientific research retractions – said that the report errors were characteristic of the use of generative artificial intelligence, which led to similar questions in legal deposit And more.
Dr. Oransky said that even if he did not know if the government had used AI to produce the report or quotes, “we have already seen this film in particular, and it is unfortunately much more common in scientific literature than people would not wish or that it should not be really.”
