The Gay Capital of Europe

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"If I make a mark, said that socialism would be eating foie gras and listening to opera. If you think of er n m banks is science fiction stories which are set in a post-skess of people can fix their genes but again they've always got to meet some pesky aliens or their their ultra-intelligent spaceships do the same thing" "There are such stories, but you're right, that is rather dull."

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.