I'm Not a Bit of My Chain of Thought

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In many countries there is a law against genetically manipulating embryos but in the u.s. there's no barrier to you to this happening. There are real possibilities for biomedicine, not just for manipulating genes of the next generation which is what her john kwe did so you change every cell oh he didn't but you're supposed to change every cell in the embryo so it's the same in your new version. The moral history uh it's not my subtitle that's the u.S.a. I see we did we didn't have a slight dispute over that i don't i'm sure they weren't mind but maybe i mean no ididn't like the title either.

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.