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72: Do genes and eugenics cause inequality?: Dr. Paige Harden

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Today on the show is the real gene Jeanie, as David Bowie would put it, Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden. Not only does she go by Paige, but her book The Genetic Lottery is a real page turner. See what I did there? The book, which is out now, is causing controversy for its focus – or Paige’s focus – on the effects DNA has on equality. Sign up for the bonus questions on http://patreon.com/andrewgold or on Apple VIP. And sign up with my sponsor ISSUU on http://issuu.com/podcast with promo code: EDGE. Dr. Harden links: The Genetic Lottery: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190808/the-genetic-lottery https://twitter.com/kph3k New Yorker Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If we look at the genetic data, what we see is that some of the genetic variants associated with going further in school are also correlated with this higher likelihood of developing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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Today on the show is the real gene genie, as David Bowie would put it, Dr.

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Catherine Page Hardin. Dr Hardin is an American behavior geneticist who is professor of

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psychology at the University of Texas, she is also the leader

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of the Developmental Behavior Genetics Lab, and co-director of the Texas Twin Project, an ongoing study of child and teenage twins to find out how people

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born with identical genes can grow up differently.

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Not only does she go by Paige, but her book, The Genetic Lottery, is a real Page Turner.

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