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Emily Kennard
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NOTUS reporter, AJI fellow

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The 2 reporters did a short Q&A on their RFK/MAHA story, and it’s great!

(Via a @notusreports.bsky.social email, h/t @ddiamond.bsky.social)
We talked to Emily and Margaret about how it came together. How did you get the idea to look through citations in the first place? Margaret Manto: I got a tip over the weekend that there was some fishy stuff in the MAHA report citations. I started checking that they were real but figured out pretty quickly that l'd have to look at all 522 citations to know for sure. 522 citations! How long did it take, and what did you find? Margaret: Emily and I took about five days to go through all of the citations. Emily Kennard: We didn't have full access to every article, so we were mostly confirming that the bibliographic information was correct. But we pretty quickly found a handful of articles that we couldn't find anywhere through search engines or in the listed journals, so we decided to go through and check each one. It took a few full workdays to pore over a spreadsheet and to reach out to cited researchers. How did researchers respond? Have you heard from HHS or MAHA world? Emily: Researchers are usually excited to have their work cited, but the ones we reached out to were surprised - probably because a few of them hadn't actually done the research that the report cited them for. Margaret: HHS hasn't gotten back to our request for comment yet.
May 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM