A Deep Conversation with Jon Beckwith: A History of Scientific and Social Activism and the Teaching of Social Issues in Biology
Eminent biologist Jon Beckwith of the Harvard Medical School chronicles the experiences which awakened his activism in exposing and confronting social injustices promulgated by persistent cultural myths, notably eugenics and a genetic basis for criminality - cultural myths that persist at the highest levels of political discourse even today. Series: "A Deep Look into the Future of Biology" [Science] [Show ID: 36304]