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Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

With the rise in consumer DNA tests and online genealogy, people might soon have a pretty good idea where their families came from for generations. But are we putting too much faith in DNA? Can our genetic ancestry really tell us anything about ourselves? And what happens when DNA databases become playgrounds for true crime sleuths? Guests: Carl Zimmer, science journalist and author of She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity Kristen V. Brown, biotechnology reporter at Bloomberg Kim Tallbear, author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Clan_McCrimmon, moderator of the Lyle Stevik subreddit Colleen Fitzpatrick and Margaret Press, cofounders of DNA Doe Kelly Hills, cofounder of Rogue Bioethics Further Reading: She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants In an Age of Gene Editing and Surrogacy, What Does Heredity Mean? How DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage, and Probably Yours, Too DNA testing is like the 'Wild West'; should it be more tightly regulated? DNA test kits: Consider the privacy implications The ingenious and ‘dystopian’ DNA technique police used to hunt the ‘Golden State Killer’ suspect The Strange Case of the Man With No Name Web Sleuths: Lyle Stevik Reddit: Lyle Stevik GED Match Active DNA Doe Cases DNA Doe Lyle Stevik Press Release Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm your host.

0:03.0

Flash Forward is a show.

0:04.0

A.

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A.

0:08.0

Hello and welcome to Flash Forward.

0:11.0

I'm Rose and I'm your host.

0:13.4

Flash Forward is a show about the future.

0:15.7

Every episode we take on a specific possible,

0:18.4

or not so possible future scenario.

0:21.2

We always start with a little field trip to the future to check out what's going on and then we

0:26.8

teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world that we just heard might really go down. Got it? Great. Just as a

0:36.2

heads up, this episode does discuss the topic of suicide, so adjust your dial

0:40.8

accordingly. Okay, this episode we're going to start in the year 2063. Hey, so the pitchfork sequence came back. Oh, great. Not great. The tree is dead.

1:04.0

What do you mean?

1:06.0

No links, nothing. We tried running it through a few times.

1:09.0

The DNA sequence is there and it's human we check, but no links. No relatives in the... in a

1:15.0

and it's human we check but no lengths no relatives in the database.

1:16.0

I didn't even know that was possible.

1:18.0

I've seen it once before a guy born and raised in a cult

1:22.0

nobody in the community believed in science or medicine. a guy born and raised in a cult.

1:22.6

Nobody in the community believed in science or medicine

1:25.2

so they never did any DNA tests.

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