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