Episode 14: Medical Genetics & Eugenics: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Nov 20, 2025
33 mins

Episode Description

Nathaniel Comfort, PhD, author of The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine and a forthcoming biography on James Watson, talks about medical genetics and eugenics as "two sides of the same coin," and cautions that there is no simple, bright line between the two pursuits.

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