Fired CDC Director Buries RFK Jr. in Scorching WSJ Op-Ed — Accuses Him and Anti-Vax Allies of ‘Sabotage’

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Hours before Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced off against the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill, the woman he fired as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dropped a scorching takedown in the Wall Street Journal accusing him of the “sabotage” of public health.

Dr Susan Monarez, ousted after just 29 days in the role, accused Kennedy and his allies in the blistering op-ed of orchestrating “a deliberate effort to weaken America’s public-health system and vaccine protections.”

“That isn’t reform. It is sabotage,” she wrote.

Monarez, a career scientist who was confirmed by the Senate earlier this summer, said she lost her job because she insisted on “rigorous scientific review” after being ordered to “preapprove” recommendations from “a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric.”

“If discarding evidence for ideology becomes the norm, why should parents, physicians or the public trust the CDC’s guidance?” Monarez asked.

She continued: “Those seeking to undermine vaccines use a familiar playbook: discredit research, weaken advisory committees, and use manipulated outcomes to unravel protections that generations of families have relied on to keep deadly diseases at bay.”

“Once trusted experts are removed and advisory bodies are stacked, the results are predetermined,” she wrote. “Public health shouldn’t be partisan. Vaccines have saved millions of lives under administrations of both parties.”

She added: “Parents deserve a CDC they can trust to put children above politics, evidence above ideology and facts above fear.”