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Ep150 - Walter Isaacson | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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Eugenics - Is Regulation Possible?

Walter asks readers to think about free market eugenics. If we allow it totally to be up to the individual, you could go into fertility clinics or other places and be given a shopping list as if youwre at a genetic supermarket. Free market eugenic has some of the same outcome as state sponsord eugenics but it will be a liberal, free market or libertarian eugenic so i want readers to do that thought experiment as well.

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