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Introducing: The Science of Everything

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Genetics in Society and Politics

I just wondered if you had any sort of general reflections on genetics knowledge and society and policy more generally or any relevant issues that might come to mind. The thing I'm thinking of as you talk about is the current focus on trying to use genetic information to make informed decisions about about medical issues right. Yeah that's probably the most salient one at the moment. You know this sort of this sort of multiple things going on here right one one is that we know that some diseases have a genetic basis in the sense that having particular alleles or particular functional or non-functional versions of a given gene affect your propensity to get the disease.

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