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Collins is also an advocate for therapeutic cloning without the use of embryonic stem cells. In 2020, he was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]].
Collins is also an advocate for therapeutic cloning without the use of embryonic stem cells. In 2020, he was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]].
Collins is on record stating he does not definitively believe, as most pro-lifers do, that life begins at conception, and his tenure at NIH has been marked by extreme [[Pro-abortion|anti-life]], pro-LGBT policies. Other than his proclamations that he is, himself, a believer, the [[NIH]] director espouses nearly no public positions that would mark him out as any different from any extreme [[Left]]-wing [[bureaucrat]]. He has not only defended<ref>https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-chief-defends-use-human-fetal-tissue-opponents-decry-it-congress</ref> experimentation on fetuses obtained by abortion, he has also directed record-level<ref>https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/10/the-cautionary-tale-of-francis-collins</ref> spending toward it. Among the priorities the NIH has funded<ref>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/how-aborted-children-are-used</ref> under Collins — a [[University of Pittsburgh]] experiment that involved grafting infant scalps onto lab rats, as well as projects that relied on the harvested organs of [[aborted]], full-term babies. Some doctors have even charged Collins with giving money to research that required extracting kidneys, ureters, and bladders from living infants. <ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches </ref><ref>https://illinoisfamily.org/religious/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches/</ref>
Collins is on record stating he does not definitively believe, as most pro-lifers do, that life begins at conception, and his tenure at NIH has been marked by extreme [[Pro-abortion|anti-life]], pro-LGBT policies. Other than his proclamations that he is, himself, a believer, the [[NIH]] director espouses nearly no public positions that would mark him out as any different from any extreme [[Left]]-wing [[bureaucrat]]. He has not only defended<ref>https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-chief-defends-use-human-fetal-tissue-opponents-decry-it-congress</ref> experimentation on fetuses obtained by abortion, he has also directed record-level<ref>https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/10/the-cautionary-tale-of-francis-collins</ref> spending toward it.
== Impact as [[NIH]] Director ==
=== Greenlighting implanting mice with cells from [[aborted]] infants and related experimentation===
Among the priorities the [[NIH]] has funded<ref>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/how-aborted-children-are-used</ref> under Collins — a [[University of Pittsburgh]] experiment that involved grafting infant scalps onto lab rats, as well as projects that relied on the harvested organs of [[aborted]], full-term babies. Some doctors have even charged Collins with giving money to research that required extracting kidneys, ureters, and bladders from living infants. <ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches </ref><ref>https://illinoisfamily.org/religious/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches/</ref>
When asked about the NIH funding experiments such as [[University of Pittsburgh]] [https://www.ncregister.com/news/pro-lifers-speak-out-against-taxpayer-funded-experiments-using-aborted-fetal-body-parts studies that involved harvesting body parts from babies at various stages of development and grafting infant scalps onto lab rats] [https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2022/02/04/wcw-investigation-fauci-is-usas-top-spender-on-animal-experiments-with-human-fetal-tissue/ and others], Collins did not deny knowing about or green lighting such projects.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-in-leaked-audio-former-nih-director-new-biden-science-adviser-laughs-over-threatening-unemployment-to-force-vaccines-blames-trump-for-covid-19-deaths In Leaked Audio Former NIH Director/New Biden Science Adviser Laughs Over Threatening Unemployment To Force Vaccines, Blames Trump For COVID-19 Deaths</ref>
=== Abuse of position to influence [[Evangelical]] views ===
[[Evangelical]] leaders like Russell Moore have been [https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/evangelicals-who-are-good-bad-francis-collins-david-brooks/ under] [https://wng.org/opinions/decadence-on-display-1645449344 fire] since [[The Daily Wire]] detailed their praise and promotion of Collins despite his record of the NIH funding controversial [[transgender]] research on [[minors]] and experimentation on organs collected from aborted infants<ref>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/how-aborted-children-are-used</ref><ref>https://www.ncregister.com/news/pro-lifers-speak-out-against-taxpayer-funded-experiments-using-aborted-fetal-body-parts</ref>.
Carl R. Trueman, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, has stated: {{cquote|Francis Collins was lauded as a faithful presence by a number of [[evangelical]] leaders upon his retirement, even though, as [[The Daily Wire|The Daily Wire’s]] Megan Basham [https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches <ref>https://illinoisfamily.org/religious/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches/</ref> recently demonstrated in painful detail]<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches </ref><ref>https://illinoisfamily.org/religious/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches/</ref>, Collins’ “faithful presence” at the National Institutes of Health does not seem to have gone beyond that of faithfully turning up to work. In the real world, there are humble employees all over the country for whom “faithful presence” of the truly Christian kind comes with significant personal discomfort and professional cost
-Carl R. Trueman <ref>https://wng.org/opinions/decadence-on-display-1645449344</ref>}}
[[Rob Dreher]], author of the bestselling book ''Live Not by Lies'', said of this revelation: {{cquote|it shows how we can allow ourselves to be used and deceived by those in whom we place authority. Though Evangelicalism is not my world, nor is science, I have for years uncritically assumed that Francis Collins was a ''Good Guy''™, was ''One Of Us''™, and so forth. Why? Because others I knew and trusted said so. That was it. It really was. That Collins was so useless as a [[Christian]] when it came to the ways he ran [[NIH]] came as a shock to me when I first read about it last fall<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches </ref>. I assumed that because the people I know and trust vouched for him, he must be fine.
We all do this, and we have to do this, because nobody can get through life being radically skeptical of everybody else. All of us have a network of people we trust as authoritative. What none of us really know, though, is whether or not those who have our trust deserve it.
-Rob Dreher <ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/evangelicals-who-are-good-bad-francis-collins-david-brooks/ Rob Dreher | Evangelicals: Who Are The Good & The Bad? | theamericanconservative.com </ref>}}
== See Also ==
== See Also ==