WASHINGTON — 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?”
The man — who calls himself Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., Ph.D. — was referring to trans fats.
Image: Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, on "Who is America?" SCREEN CAPTURE VIA SHOWTIME
