Fear of Behavior Genetics

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There's going to be a certain consistency there if you're high and open as to experience. You could have a crazed Hitler but i mean he'd end up like Alex Jones or somebody. If we're all the same then no one can be smarter than anybody else according to steep hinkers book. The fear of imperfectibility is why people are afraid of perfecting society, says author David Frum.

Shermer and Cobb discuss: objections to genetic engineering (political, religious, cultural) • selective breeding • recombinant DNA • the ethics of genetics • patenting life • gene therapy • gene editing • CRISPR • literature and films on the dangers of genetic engineering • bioweapons • 3 Laws of Behavior Genetics and what people fear about it.

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is the author of six books: The Idea of the Brain: A History; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; Generation; The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis; Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944; and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.