In unsocial media, it's been probably equal parts far left and far right. What i'm really struck by is the disconnects between the social media chatter and people's reaching out to me privately. They have been people saying, you've made me think differently about my own children. Or how can i help write like, i am in this foundation, or am developing this steter resource, or i'm in this policy institute. How can we connect it? And those responses, for me, outweigh any of the kind of social media chatter around it.
The subject of genetic inheritance provokes passionate debate but behavioural geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden believes both sides are getting it wrong. It’s possible, she argues, to reclaim the science of genetics while avoiding the trap of categorising traits as superior or inferior. Drawing from her new book, The Genetic Lottery, Harden shares her research uncovered as head of the Developmental Behavior Genetics lab at University Texas with Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic.
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