313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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Genetic Engineering and the Nazis
The first real life expression of godwin's law which is that a discussion on the internet will rapidly turn into discussion about the Nazis. The idea of a designer baby to make them all blonde hair blue i like hittler would do uh... such that you know that the idea of genetic engineering humans maybe they should have been thinking about that not or think about the ethical issues. Although wanting to do was to be a few dna from microbes and uh... uh... and viruses and see what happens but that's that's the kind of exaggerated response we had about that in a way nothing has changed.
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