December 11, 2002: Microbiology and Ethics - Jon Beckwith
December 11, 2002: Microbiology and Ethics - Jon Beckwith  
Podcast: The Art Bell Archive
Published On: Fri May 30 2025
Description: Art Bell speaks with Harvard professor Jon Beckwith, a pioneering geneticist whose lab first isolated a pure gene from an organism in 1969. Beckwith discusses how he held a press conference to announce that achievement and simultaneously warn the public about the dangers of genetic manipulation. He reveals that colleagues at Harvard once attempted to have his tenure revoked for raising ethical objections to a controversial study screening newborn boys for the extra Y chromosome supposedly… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-11-2002-microbiology-and-ethics-jon-beckwith/