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Judge Tells RFK Jr. to Stop Using Fake AI Studies on Teen Pregnancy (newrepublic.com)

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A federal judge lit into the Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for using either AI or fake studies to defend the Trump administration’s decision to fund only abstinence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs.

“While abstinence-only education may well be appropriate for some age groups or communities, the agency has offered no explanation or evidence to support its across-the-board mandate that only abstinence strategies be pursued,” U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his opinion. “On the topic of body literacy, the notices (remarkably) reference public health studies that appear either not to exist or not to support the propositions for which they are cited—a hallmark of AI-generated citations.”

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[–] meowmeow@quokk.au 1 points 54 minutes ago

He won’t and no one stops him. Lefty porno. “USA gonna be OK! No worries.”

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

I’ll believe this matters even a little bit once the judge in question imposes actual, meaningful punitive measures on them. Until then, this is simply political theater.