The Importance of Reason

I think the forces were very powerful in the direction that you are criticizing it. They can't brook any dissenters, any contestation. If you let that camel's nose under the tent, the whole thing is going to fall apart. You're going to have people in the streets. And therefore, the imperative of the moment is to manufacture or create or invent something that you know, and it's wrong. I was feeling that really deeply, and if I was in Francis Collins shoes, and I'm getting by people who tell me that, I would have backed down," he says.

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