Nuclear Weapons and the Doctor Strange Love Scenario

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There's never been a film or book about gm crops and you would have thought given all the who are there was in the nineties. The suspicion that still looks if you talk to people who aren't happy they get very you know there's something very deep about what they feel about sir about gM crops. There is a big debate in china public debate amazingly about gm crop about whether it's a good thing.

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.