Among her issues of concern: the June 9, 2025, removal of experts from a key vaccine advisory panel, as well as Kennedy's refusal to receive a briefing on the ongoing measles epidemic from the agency's top medical official, misinformation he has spread about the measles vaccine, and his general refusal to recognize facts that did not fit his agenda. "Science doesn't change based on who is in office, and so when these things were happening, I knew this was different than before," she said in her first interview since a trove of emails that she provided to the Senate Health Committee were released in late June. And when we had many requests coming from political appointees on things that had happened 30 years ago that didn't really need to be relitigated at a taxpayer expense, I became very concerned that data, science and facts would not be enough.".
