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Believe the miracles: of biomedical science and human suffering
Let me begin by thanking each of you for this distinct honor. It has been one of the great privileges of my professional career to serve as President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. I am also deeply grateful to the ASCI Council, which has offered such rich guidance, wisdom, and friendship as we addressed a range of challenges and opportunities for the ASCI over the past few years.
In addition, it is deeply gratifying to pay tribute to the wonderful men and women who have led this esteemed organization over several generations. One past ASCI President, Dr. Edward J. Benz, Jr., has also led my home institution (the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) for many years. Naturally, I read his presidential address with particular interest. In a now classic vignette about why he enjoyed being ASCI President, Dr. Benz wrote: “The duties are few; the effort required is modest. It is well documented that no ASCI president has ever suffered excessively from overwork due to the demands of the office” (1). I can’t help but wonder whether Dr. Benz would have written the same words if he had experienced the “joys” of presiding over the founding of a new ASCI scientific journal!
Over the years, ASCI presidents hav
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Published June 29,
America Magazine
By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
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Accelerationist
The announcement by Ayaan Hirsi Ali of her conversion to Christianity got a lot of tongues wagging.
There was one particular bit of criticism which didn’t sit well with me, from a certain type of Christian who dislikes Ali’s roughly neoconservative style of politics, and sneeringly noted that her proclamation of conversion spoke more of Western civilization, and the need to defend it against civilizational enemies, than of Christ.
There seems to be some sort of misunderstanding. One of the wittiest men I ever knew once had as his Twitter bio “Religious, not spiritual” which was a very pithy argument in favor of a certain kind of existence. (He later changed it to “You too work at a desk? What are the odds!”—told you, witty.) “Religious not spiritual” is a perfectly okay thing to be. It’s infinitely better than “spiritual not religious”!
Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ? I obviously encourage everyone to have and seek such a relationship, but I will note that the model of religious conversion implied by the notorious Protestant evangelization phrase is far from the on