Dr. Francis Collins
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Former NIH director Dr. Francis Collins tells Stephen that more lives could have been saved during the pandemic if Americans had been less skeptical about getting vaccinated, and if government officials had done a better job communicating about its benefits. His book, "The Road to Wisdom," is available now.
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| 0:30.0 | It's the Late Show, Show with Stephen Colbay. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome back everybody. |
| 0:40.0 | My next guest tonight is a brilliant physician geneticist and |
| 0:47.1 | Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who served as the director of the |
| 0:50.5 | National Institutes of Health for 12 years. Please welcome back to the Late Show Dr. the What do you know? We're here to talk about your book. The road, they're very generous. The road to wisdom is your book. |
| 1:09.0 | But this would be yours and we are as of today publication date twins. How about that? Very nice. |
| 1:16.2 | Thank you very good. Is it like? Sign that to... Yes please sign that. To Frankie Collins. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, no, it's Francis. I don't use that other kind of name. Okay. |
| 1:28.0 | To Francis. You can write a whole paragraph if you like about how much you admire me and how you followed my career for all these years and you're so glad it's a high point of your whole year to have me on your program. |
| 1:42.0 | To Francis with with love and butter |
| 1:45.9 | Stephen. I got out over there. Now once again the new book is The Road to Wisdom. |
| 1:55.0 | You're now retired as the head of the NIH. |
| 1:59.0 | You said the goal of the book is to show away |
| 2:01.0 | out of the division and anger that have overtaken our society. |
| 2:05.0 | That would be lovely. How do we pull the car out of the ditch? |
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