RFK's MAHA report on youth health angers scientists and skeptics alike

For supporters of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s Make America Healthy Again campaign, Tuesday's release of the MAHA commissions recommendations was supposed to represent a sea change in how the government approaches regulation of food and chemicals.

While Kennedys first MAHA report, released in May, was aimed at identifying causes of the significant increase in chronic disease rates among children, the second report promised to identify strategies and specific actions the government could take to curb that trend. In the lead-up to its release, dozens of interest groups and activists sent letters to Kennedy and other MAHA officials urging action on specific items from revoking liability shields for pesticide makers to increasing transparency in the food and agri