The director of the American Public Health Association called for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign or be fired over "unscientific and judgmental" views toward health, the Washington Examiner reported.

“Americans deserve better than someone who is trying to impose his unscientific and judgmental views of public health and science,” Dr. Georges Benjamin said in a statement. “We deserve better than RFK Jr. He demonstrated his incompetence in only a few weeks.”

What was Benjamin's main complaint? The 10,000 firings Kennedy recently implemented across the department, including at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

The firings happened in March as part of a sweeping overhaul of the department. Other changes included the development of a new agency called the Administration for a Healthy America to “more efficiently coordinate chronic care and disease prevention,” according to an HHS and DOGE fact sheet.

Cutting research grants

Kennedy is already saying the firings might be a mistake.

Benjamin also faulted Kennedy for stopping research grants through the NIH, which impacts many colleges and universities across the U.S. He and 1500 scientists have said that stopping the grants risks the future of scientific and biomedical progress in the U.S.

Wednesday in his first interview since taking office, Kennedy told CBS that he was not aware of cuts to research grants that studied chronic diseases. Kennedy has said he wants to eliminate the chronic disease epidemic.

Benjamin described Kennedy’s leadership as "poor and thoughtless management that will only undermine the work of our nation’s top public health agencies to keep us all healthy.”

White House not happy

There have been reports that the White House does not like some of HHS's messaging under Kennedy, particularly with regard to the recent measles outbreak in Texas and nearby states.

Axios reported on Thursday that the White House has needed to institute a shadow HHS press office because the one at the agency has been "unreachable."

Kennedy seems to have resorted to posting announcements on social media without following up on them through official correspondence.

For instance, Kennedy said on X on Sunday that the MMR vaccine is the "most effective" way to prevent measles infection.

At the same time, he announced that he has redeployed CDC ground support teams in west Texas at Gov. Greg Abbott (R)'s request.

Prior to being chosen as Trump's HHS secretary in a deal to get him out of the race as a third-party candidate, Kennedy had expressed skepticism about vaccine safety and was known as an "anti-vaxxer."