Francis Collins: “To actually insist, therefore, that God might be threatened by what science is teaching us, it seems to me, that…”

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.'

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

Public service is the most wonderful kind of experience you can have.

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