Francis Collins: “Clearly, with pancreatic cancer, one of the big problems is the inability to know it is there until it is already very…”

Francis Collins, then head of the NIH, labeled me a fringe epidemiologist.

Both of those groundbreaking projects, BRAIN and All of Us, are now at severe risk because of budget and workforce cuts.

I`m a scientist, I`m a doctor, I`m not a politician, but somehow this is all gotten tangled up, and people have lost their grip on evidence of what ought to be used to make a decision like this.

Let me remind you of the last sentence of that Gettysburg Address: 'that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.'