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Former CDC head Susan Monarez testified in front of Congress and shared the directives she received from RFK Jr., many to disregard science, and his disregard for the agency and staff he is charged with leading . “On August 25, I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known,” Monarez said. “What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded — all under the authority of a Senate-confirmed director with ‘unimpeachable credentials.’ I could have kept the office, the title, but I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: my integrity.”