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Ad-hominen is a personal attack used instead of an argument. Not all personal attacks are used in this way.
PZ's attack was based on a concern Francis Collins' beliefs would corrupt his professional decisions; a reasonable concern at the time. We weren't to know how well Collins does the compartmentalisation trick.
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