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Sacha Baron Cohen tried to prank Francis Collins — and science won out – STAT

By August 27, 2018May 22nd, 2025No Comments

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Francis Collins did not take off his pants.

To the contrary, he could sense something wasn’t quite right — perhaps immediately, when his heavyset and dubiously bearded interviewer, sitting in a motorized scooter, began by asking: “Why are big agriculture putting chemicals into our food to make people transgender?”

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