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Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Introduction

Russia has invaded ukrane. So we have the first major land war in europe in decades. It certainly deserves its own podcast at some point. In recent weeks, rob discovered a specific threat along these lines that seems fairly imminent. And he's tapped kevin espelt to walk him through the problem. Kevin is a harvard trained biologist who describes how crisper jean drives could be used to alter the traits of wild populations. As you'll hear, there's a call to action at the end of this episode. The call is to get the attention of usa. I d, which is currently running the programme of virus hunting that poses such a concern.

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