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Francis Collins makes nature look shabby.

eucaryote

Posted: 09 July 2009 12:15 PM

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Check it out. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/francis-collins-obamas-pi_n_228128.html

Sam Harris wins the Philip Ball/nature mag/Sam Harris debate.

http://www.reasonproject.org/archive/item/what_should_science_dosam_harris_v_philip_ball/

Collins makes fool of Ball, waves copy of nature mag in air, borrows nature credibility to declare soundness of faith…gag!

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Posted: 09 July 2009 12:22 PM

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Collins may be good as the head of the NIH—could turn out to be a disaster though. Of course I’m not sure that wouldn’t be true of a lot of potentially excellent appointees ...

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