It is as plain as day. Hitchens has not been shy about insisting that Christians are anti-science, stupid, anti-reality, etc. Being a good doctor involves application of scientific principles, coping carefully with reality accurately, and applying all of your intellect to the very best of your ability. By trusting in the intellect, skill and scientific knowledge of a professing Christian, Hitchens is guilty of rank hypocrisy. I pray it leads him to confront the contradictions in his life.
People are capable of being logical on some issues and illogical about others. If the guy has enough medical credentials to be considered an expert about cancer, rejecting his advice would be religious bigotry.
I know many of you happily post without reading the article upon which the thread is based, but you end up looking like fools. You commit a mistake common to us all, you assume based on past knowledge of the subject and in this case, as is often true, you assume wrong.
Hitchens has not changed his mind and he did not choose the doctor because of his Christianity. He and the doctor know each other well and have debated many times. They are friends. The doctor has been doing research on the human genome. He chose the doctor because the doctor has a new experimental cancer treatment which deals with the differences in the DNA of the healthy cells and the cancerous ones in a person’s body. Hitchens says he hopes the treatment works because if it doesn’t he doesn’t know where else to turn, but he has not changed his religious views.