Sam Harris contributed an op-ed to the New York Times over the weekend, in which he expresses the concerns of the freethought community and science advocates over President Obama’s naming of Francis Collins as head of the National Institutes of Health.
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Sam Harris on Francis Collins
Monday, July 27th, 2009
What does Francis Collins mean for the NIH?
Sunday, July 12th, 2009You may have heard the news that the president has named Francis “Three Waterfalls” Collins to head the National Institutes of Health. By all accounts Collins is a competent bureaucrat and respectable as a researcher (he was one of the leaders in the Human Genome Project, after all, and he was the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute).
The Strange Case of Francis Collins
Thursday, August 6th, 2009The freethought bloggerati has been all atwitter for the last few weeks in response to President Obama’s appointment of Francis “Three Waterfalls” Collins to head the National Institutes of Health. Conservative pundits say we’re crying foul only because Collins is a Christian. Sam Harris, expanding on his recent New York Times essay, has just posted a more detailed explanation in “The Strange Case of Francis Collins” at his Reason Project website.
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