Robert F Kennedy Jr., the US health secretary, has reportedly fired a top scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) just three weeks after she filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration. Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo was the scientist removed from her NIH job, and this action looks like a shocking act of retribution, especially when you consider that she was protesting moves to undermine vaccine research.
To give you the full picture, Dr. Marrazzo had already been demoted back in March from her senior position as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Her whistleblower complaint, which she filed just last month, alleged that this initial demotion was a direct act of retribution, according to The Guardian.
