A Deep Conversation with Jon Beckwith: A History of Scientific and Social Activism

(05:05 - Main Presentation - Jon Beckwith, 54:45 - Q&A) 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. [11/2020] [Show ID: 36304]

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