Former Director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, is being honored with one of the country’s most prestigious awards after the National Academy of Sciences announced he is being presented with its 2026 Public Welfare Medal.
According to a press release, Collins is receiving the award, which is presented annually to honor extraordinary use of science for the public good, for his “pioneering research in human genetics and critical contributions to public welfare as the leader of the Human Genome Project.”
This is wholly undeserving as Collins, who was pushed and promoted hard by Russell Moore, David French, Tim Keller, and Ed Setzer, played a pivotal role in destroying faith and trust in the the good of our public scientific and medical institutions.
During COVID, he was trotted out to push 6-foot social distancing, lockdowns, and the absolute need to mask, criticizing anyone who offered alternatives.
He argued that in-person public schooling was a higher priority than in-person church, openly supported doing experiments on fetal tissue on account that he doesn’t believe human embryos to be life but only ‘potential life,” and has argued that scientists should use bodies of aborted babies for scientific experimentation.
He also shamed Christians for having vaccine hesitancy, arguing the culture war waged by evangelicals during the pandemic was in part responsible for over 100,000 people dying unnecessarily, offering that many white evangelicals have been “victimized by the misinformation and lies and conspiracies that are floating around, particularly on social media and some of it in cable news.”
Collins released a statement for PRIDE month in which he publicly revealed himself to be thoroughly compromised on the Christian’s view of LGBTQ issues and the scriptures, offering them his personal support as an “ally” and regurgitating all the progressive talking points he could muster.
Couple all that with a refusal to condemn “pregnant people” language and being a propagandist for unscientific pandemic protocols, Collins has been utterly exposed.
