A conversation with an award-winning science journalist and author, Angela Saini, about the alluring but dangerous pursuit of "improving" the human species through genetics and how it's driving American politics and policy today.

TOPICS

The ideology of eugenics is fundamentally driven by a pursuit that can seem deceptively desirable: the "improvement of the human species." What does it really mean to "improve" people?
How does the pursuit of perfection drive eugenic thinking?
How are you thinking about efforts today to scrub scientific research of engagement with gender and race?
Across human history how have people thought about biological sex gender and social roles?
What did DNA testing bring to the conversation about how patriarchy spread?
What do you think medical and genetics professionals should really be paying attention to in terms of how science, in particular genetics, is being discussed today culturally and politically?
How does taking a long view of human history inform how you're thinking about the political moment we're living through right now?
Do you think the left / progressives have a cohesive story that people want to hear?

For episode show notes and resources go to: https://www.geneticfrontiers.org/episode9-angela-saini