Francis Collins: “It is also the greatest return on investment of anything that the government spends money on, $8.38 of return in 5 years…”

But I have to tell you, 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.

Freedom is about rights, but it's also about responsibilities.

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