I only see harm coming," said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis.

"The people that have been installed by Secretary Kennedy are full of ideology and bias that will actually contaminate the science," said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis.

The health secretary’s talk about what is and isn’t a “feature of science” and democracy stunned critics online.

I only see harm coming," said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis.

The agency has been in turmoil following the White House's decision to terminate Dr. Susan Monarez as CDC director.

In a New York Times essay, former CDC chiefs point to Kennedy’s firing of thousands of health workers and the weakening of cancer programmes.

An open letter criticises the health secretary for restricting vaccines and firing the agency's boss.

Health experts said Kennedy’s ‘repeated efforts to undermine science and public health’ left Americans ‘less safe’.