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The reaction from both Hollywood and the global scientific community has been a mixture of celebration and lighthearted humor. Longtime friend and late-night host Stephen Colbert quipped on social media that he was thrilled to see a professor who would finally award “A’s” for essays on time travel. Meanwhile, medical luminaries like Dr. Sanjay Gupta have hailed the appointment as the “missing link” in modern medicine. Gupta noted that while we are excellent at treating the mechanics of the brain, we often ignore the “human spirit” that inhabits it. By bringing Fox into the faculty, Columbia is acknowledging that the emotional state of a patient is just as critical to their outcome as the medication they are prescribed. Even his former Family Ties co-star, Meredith Baxter, joined the chorus of praise, noting that the fictional Alex P. Keaton—a character defined by his ambition—had finally found a mission worthy of his energy.
