Sacha Baron Cohen tried to prank Francis Collins. He got a science lesson instead
The latest public figure duped by Sacha Baron Cohen: NIH Director Francis Collins. Here's how he kept his cool.
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
