Former high-ranking officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told senators on Wednesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s appointment as the nation’s top health care regulator has created an anti-scientific culture of censorship and arbitrary policy changes that are endangering Americans’ health.

At the center of lawmakers focus was former CDC Director Susan Monarez, who was ousted from the agency by Kennedy, Donald Trump ’s secretary of Health and Human Services ( HHS ), after she refused to sign off on Kennedy’s proposed changes to CDC vaccine policies.

Speaking before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Monarez said that Kennedy had asked her to approve new vaccine recommendations without regard to “scientific evidence,” and to f

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