Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confronted for a report his department published that included numerous fake sources.

The report — titled the “MAHA Report” and published by the Make America Healthy Again Commission — cited more than 500 studies as the basis for Kennedy’s health agenda. Upon closer inspection, however, it was discovered that at least seven of those studies didn’t actually exist. In fact, the scientists involved in those alleged studies even came out to confirm that the studies had never taken place.

During a House hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) grilled Kennedy and his defense of the report:

RUIZ: Secretary Kennedy, you’re listed as the chair of the commission. Did you read the report and fact-check its sources prior to publication?

KENNEDY: All of the facts of this–

RUIZ: Did you read the reports and did you yourself fact-check them, sir?

KENNEDY: I did not fact-check them.

RUIZ: You did not fact-check. Why then, as has–

KENNEDY: All of the foundational assertions–

RUIZ: Excuse me, sir, I’m speaking. Why, then, did the report include a citation to sources that don’t even exist? How does that happen under your leadership, sir?

KENNEDY: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate. Some of them–

RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate if they did not exist, sir?

KENNEDY: Some of the citations–

RUIZ: You know, in fact, my understanding is that even once the report was updated, more authors and researchers came forward stating that their research was misconstrued. This is quite unbelievable, sir!

Watch above via C-SPAN.

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