NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Designer Baby, Unintended Consequences, Central Dogma Of Molecular Biology
28 Nov 2013
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Genetics 1 basics of genetics and genomics eugenics designer babies. Risk: collective (douglas societal) vs. individualistic risk (beck how do you reduce/mitigate risk) Genetic engineering of human vs. ge of all else. Ge people less comfortable what constitutes determinism vs free will; nature vs nurture. Determinism [you are your genes, that"s it] (course theme 1, experts & publics) Ge of non people economic issue (who has the right to own property of gmos) Framing: debates over gmo are not always technical (sometimes poltical). Why natural" = good healthy clean/artificial = bad/dirty/sick. Central dogma of molecular biology: information flow from the genes out to your body nature not nurture. Reductionism: to understand biology, sociology, psyc, we have to reduce things to smaller elementary things such as chemicals, atoms. Physics envy to computer science envy: (if you have math that"s seen as real" knowledge), akin to feeling unsecure because of a lack of math (for certainty).
