12 - Good Genes, Bad Science

Base Pairs by Base Pairs – a Cold Spring Harbor Lab podcast

Oct 13, 201700:27:07Science & Medicine

In the early 1900s, American science took a wrong turn toward eugenics. In this episode, we talk with experts in both science and history about what we can learn from this dark period in today’s age of unprecedented cont...

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