Cosmic Queries – Bioethics

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🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Paul Mecurio, and NYU bioethicist and philosopher Matthew Liao answer fan-submitted questions on artificial intelligence, the moralities of science, CRISPR, “designer babies,” the ethical limits of experimentation, vaccinations, and more. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/. Photo Credit: StarTalk©.

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.
0:09.0	This is Star Talk, we're science and pop culture.
0:16.0	Welcome to Star Talk, our host Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:32.0	We've got a cosmic queries edition of Star Talk, the subject bioethics.
0:41.0	My co-host Paul de Curio Paul.
0:44.0	Welcome back, dude. Thanks for having me back.
0:46.0	Thanks for making some time for us before warming up a Stephen Colbert's audience.
0:50.0	So you're right down the street.
0:52.0	Yeah, yeah, which is up the street from you from here.
0:54.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Provide a limo which is nice.
0:58.0	Did we? No.
1:00.0	Okay. No, you're not a bioethicist.
1:02.0	No. Neither am I.
1:03.0	No. Even though we might have thoughts on the matter.
1:05.0	Yes. Right, right.
1:06.0	Every day, I'm passing away.
1:08.0	I wake up and go, what is going on ethically in the morning?
1:11.0	Bioethically, yes.
1:13.0	So we went back into our role of DeX and re-invited Professor Matthew Liao.
1:19.0	Matthew, welcome back to Star Talk.
1:21.0	Thank you.
1:22.0	So we last had you on stage live in front of an audience at New York Comic Con.
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