313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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Genetic Engineering Is Not Science but Science and Venture Capital
In the eighties there was a great influx of venture capital into biotech creation of lots and lots of startups in the hope of both make you a great product but also getting filthy rich. The first discovery been made by poor burger won a Nobel prize for it then kind of eighteen months later her boy and Stanley Cohen uh... came up with a what we now ended up calling cloning. They patented that method and boy a set up genentech and became when it went public in nineteen eighty became multi-millionaire overnightbut carried on working the lab. In other words it with genetic engineering instead of science mad scientist using this to take over the world they just want to make money well i think i
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