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Bulwark Takes

RFK’s Health Report Is a Mess

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Sam Stein sits down with NOTUS reporter Margaret Manto to break down RFK Jr.’s MAHA report—a document packed with fake citations, broken links, and bogus studies.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:21.6

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0:24.0

I'm joined by Margaret Mantow, who is a reporter at Notice.

0:27.7

Margaret is joining us from what is a conspicuous looking DC office space, I presume.

0:34.2

I don't know if that's Notice headquarters, but thank you for joining us.

0:37.0

We're here to talk about her excellent story, which is getting a ton of attention in DC circles, and frankly, outside of it. It's called the Maha Report site studies that don't exist. For those that I know, the MAHA report is what the administration has put out under Robert F. Kennedy's leadership. It came out a couple days ago. It looks at

0:55.6

the classic Kennedy issues. We're going to dive into it before we do subscribe to our YouTube fee.

1:01.5

We really appreciate that. All right, Margaret, tell us a little bit about your story.

1:05.5

So I have been following the Maha report since it came out. I read it closely last week.

1:12.0

And, you know, there's a lot to get into. But over the weekend, I got a tip that there were maybe some issues

1:17.1

with some of the citations within the report. So this story was looking at every single one.

1:22.3

And we found that a couple did not exist. I just want to be clear. There's 522 citations in this report.

1:29.7

Not everyone is like a medical journal or anything like that.

1:32.2

There's news reports.

1:33.1

You look at all 522.

1:36.2

We did.

1:37.0

Yeah.

1:39.0

Was it just you clicking on it?

1:40.9

It's like small font.

1:42.6

I found it very difficult to even look at it.

1:45.5

Yeah, it was me and my colleague, Emily. We did basically click on all of them.

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