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216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

The Michael Shermer Show

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What Is a Social Solution to Long Term Problems?

i don't care as nearly as much about getting more people through college as i do as making sure that that ability to live a long, healthy, happy life is more equal. I get a little bit frustrated with this. It's such a large problem. We are capable of amazing things when there is a collective political will. A, weare just not committed to detoxifying the environment of black children in this country. And so i think if we had political will around these things, if we really thought of this as like, you know, the manhattan project, but for dtoxifying the environments of African-Americans.

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