The Moral Invocation of Genetics

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Stuart: If you're going to use the genetics to sort people, not just to show that we're different, we get more detail for why we're different. And in that equation is not their ambition to achieve, then that's like eugenics at that level. Stuart: What you're dealing with are people who already made it to exactly exactly exactly. So, yeah, it has nothing to do with what a choice starting from scratch would be.

Can you predict your future health using genetics? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore advances in genetic testing, polygenic risk scores, and the future of genetics with geneticist Dr. Stuart Kim.

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