Last month, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, demanded that Susan Monarez, the newly confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fire senior officials at her agency and accept wholesale the recommendations of a handpicked panel of vaccine advisers whom he had installed. Monarez refused, and Kennedy asked for her resignation, just weeks after saying that he had “full confidence” in her “unimpeachable scientific credentials.” She appealed to G.O.P. lawmakers, including Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician who chairs the Senate health committee and who had cast a crucial vote in favor of Kennedy’s confirmation after receiving what one can only imagine were extremely believable assurances that he wouldn’t do what he is now doing. The Whi

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